Comments on: Iraqis Fear Attacks Signal Return of ‘al-Qaeda in Iraq’ http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07/31/iraqis-fear-attacks-signal-return-of-al-qaeda-in-iraq/ Original and up-to-date news Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:03:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: couscous http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07/31/iraqis-fear-attacks-signal-return-of-al-qaeda-in-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-3211 couscous Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:55:32 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/?p=5277#comment-3211 In the first Zarqawi communiqué it was claimed that they were trying to start a “civil war” to get the occupiers <i>to stay</i> because they were ‘winning’ and going to leave soon. It was obviously absurd, just as the ensuing claims that the bombs were targeting mosques and markets that only one religious group used. Most of the marriages in Baghdad are mixed and both sects use the same mosques. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/09/AR2006040900890_pf.html" target="_blank"> The truth is that “Al-Qaeda in Iraq” was created by the occupation to punish Arab civilians for supporting the resistance.</a> <i>It is difficult to determine how much has been spent on the Zarqawi campaign, which began two years ago and is believed to be ongoing. U.S. propaganda efforts in Iraq in 2004 cost $24 million, but that included extensive building of offices and residences for troops involved, as well as radio broadcasts and distribution of thousands of leaflets with Zarqawi's face on them, said the officer speaking on background. The Zarqawi campaign is discussed in several of the internal military documents. "Villainize Zarqawi/leverage xenophobia response," one U.S. military briefing from 2004 stated. It listed three methods: "Media operations," "Special Ops (626)" (a reference to Task Force 626, an elite U.S. military unit assigned primarily to hunt in Iraq for senior officials in Hussein's government) and "PSYOP," the U.S. military term for propaganda work. <b>One internal briefing, produced by the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq, said that Kimmitt had concluded that, "The Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date."</b></i> In the first Zarqawi communiqué it was claimed that they were trying to start a “civil war” to get the occupiers to stay because they were ‘winning’ and going to leave soon. It was obviously absurd, just as the ensuing claims that the bombs were targeting mosques and markets that only one religious group used. Most of the marriages in Baghdad are mixed and both sects use the same mosques.

The truth is that “Al-Qaeda in Iraq” was created by the occupation to punish Arab civilians for supporting the resistance.

It is difficult to determine how much has been spent on the Zarqawi campaign, which began two years ago and is believed to be ongoing. U.S. propaganda efforts in Iraq in 2004 cost $24 million, but that included extensive building of offices and residences for troops involved, as well as radio broadcasts and distribution of thousands of leaflets with Zarqawi's face on them, said the officer speaking on background.

The Zarqawi campaign is discussed in several of the internal military documents. "Villainize Zarqawi/leverage xenophobia response," one U.S. military briefing from 2004 stated. It listed three methods: "Media operations," "Special Ops (626)" (a reference to Task Force 626, an elite U.S. military unit assigned primarily to hunt in Iraq for senior officials in Hussein's government) and "PSYOP," the U.S. military term for propaganda work.

One internal briefing, produced by the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq, said that Kimmitt had concluded that, "The Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date."

]]> By: couscous http://news.antiwar.com/2009/07/31/iraqis-fear-attacks-signal-return-of-al-qaeda-in-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-3210 couscous Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:55:05 +0000 http://news.antiwar.com/?p=5277#comment-3210 In the first Zarqawi communiqué it was claimed that they were trying to start a “civil war” to get the occupiers <i>to stay</i> because they were ‘winning’ and going to leave soon. It was obviously absurd, just as the ensuing claims that the bombs were targeting mosques and markets that only one religious group used. Most of the marriages in Baghdad are mixed and both sects use the same mosques. <a href="" target="_blank"> The truth is that “Al-Qaeda in Iraq” was created by the occupation to punish Arab civilians for supporting the resistance.</a> <i>It is difficult to determine how much has been spent on the Zarqawi campaign, which began two years ago and is believed to be ongoing. U.S. propaganda efforts in Iraq in 2004 cost $24 million, but that included extensive building of offices and residences for troops involved, as well as radio broadcasts and distribution of thousands of leaflets with Zarqawi's face on them, said the officer speaking on background. The Zarqawi campaign is discussed in several of the internal military documents. "Villainize Zarqawi/leverage xenophobia response," one U.S. military briefing from 2004 stated. It listed three methods: "Media operations," "Special Ops (626)" (a reference to Task Force 626, an elite U.S. military unit assigned primarily to hunt in Iraq for senior officials in Hussein's government) and "PSYOP," the U.S. military term for propaganda work. <b>One internal briefing, produced by the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq, said that Kimmitt had concluded that, "The Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date."</b></i> In the first Zarqawi communiqué it was claimed that they were trying to start a “civil war” to get the occupiers to stay because they were ‘winning’ and going to leave soon. It was obviously absurd, just as the ensuing claims that the bombs were targeting mosques and markets that only one religious group used. Most of the marriages in Baghdad are mixed and both sects use the same mosques.

The truth is that “Al-Qaeda in Iraq” was created by the occupation to punish Arab civilians for supporting the resistance.

It is difficult to determine how much has been spent on the Zarqawi campaign, which began two years ago and is believed to be ongoing. U.S. propaganda efforts in Iraq in 2004 cost $24 million, but that included extensive building of offices and residences for troops involved, as well as radio broadcasts and distribution of thousands of leaflets with Zarqawi's face on them, said the officer speaking on background.

The Zarqawi campaign is discussed in several of the internal military documents. "Villainize Zarqawi/leverage xenophobia response," one U.S. military briefing from 2004 stated. It listed three methods: "Media operations," "Special Ops (626)" (a reference to Task Force 626, an elite U.S. military unit assigned primarily to hunt in Iraq for senior officials in Hussein's government) and "PSYOP," the U.S. military term for propaganda work.

One internal briefing, produced by the U.S. military headquarters in Iraq, said that Kimmitt had concluded that, "The Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date."

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