Posted on 4/10/2006, 2:03:19 AM by jmc1969
The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program. The effort has raised his profile in a way that some military intelligence officials believe may have overstated his importance and helped the Bush administration tie the war to the organization responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
There has been a running argument among specialists in Iraq about how much significance to assign to Zarqawi, who spent seven years in prison in Jordan for attempting to overthrow the government there. After his release he spent time in Pakistan and Afghanistan before moving his base of operations to Iraq. He has been sentenced to death in absentia for planning the 2002 assassination of U.S. diplomat Lawrence Foley in Jordan. U.S. authorities have said he is responsible for dozens of deaths in Iraq and have placed a $25 million bounty on his head.
Some senior intelligence officers believe Zarqawi's role may have been overemphasized by the propaganda campaign, which has included leaflets, radio and television broadcasts, Internet postings and at least one leak to an American journalist.
Some senior intelligence officers believe Zarqawi's role may have been overemphasized by the propaganda campaign, which has included leaflets, radio and television broadcasts, Internet postings and at least one leak to an American journalist. "When we provided stuff, it was all in Arabic," and aimed at the Iraqi and Arab media, said another military officer familiar with the program, who spoke on background because he is not supposed to speak to reporters. But this officer said that the Zarqawi campaign "probably raised his profile in the American press's view."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Oh, and the morons in the article who don't consider Zarqawi a major threat have to ask themselves what Iraq would look like today without the mosque bombings and daily suicide attacks.
To: Thomas E. Ricks
Sonny, if the US Government was doing what you claim they're doing you wouldn't know it and the first time you published such drivel you'd think you were in Dr. Frankenstein's castle looking out a window and the Nation was the angry townsmen coming with torches was all you saw.
I guess WAPO knows propaganda from first hand experience.
An information warfare counter attack after this demonstration???
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Massive Muslim Protest in Bahrain Against Terrorism
"As tragic as the recent events in Iraq are, the silver lining is that it has brought to the fore the sectarian tensions in Bahrain and the need to resolve them before the situation gets out of hand. I hope that the civil and political societies make use of this momentum to achieve tangible and permanent changes."
Chan'ad Bahraini
Wednesday, March 1, 2006
These Incredible Pictures are from Montadayat.org
Chan' ad Bahraini on the massive unity protest in Bahrain after the Golden Mosque bombings:
It comes as no surprise that the recent sectarian violence in Iraq would have repercussions here in Bahrain. Both countries have a Shia majority but have been politically dominated by the minority Sunnis; and both countries are now trying to establish themselves as something that looks like a democracy.
btw here is the url....
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/03/massive-muslim-protest-in-bahrain.html
Thanks, I feel the same way as Taheri.
Let's see. . . here are the known risks associated with Zarqawi:
1. Likely mastermind of a chemical weapon attack on Jordan's capital Amman which could have killed in excess of 20,000 people.
2. Likely mastermind of the suicide bombing of wedding parties in Jordan.
3. Likely mastermind of suicide bombings in Iraqi mosques killing in excess of 300 people.
4. Known Al Qaeda affiliate and director of operations in Iraq.
5. Suspected of personally beheading Nicholas Berg in a brutal online video.
For the Washington Post to describe U.S. military portrayals as excessive "negative propaganda", it is hard to come up with reciprocal terms for describing the Post's journalism.
Worthless seems a possible starting point but probably not negative enough.
So the military is putting the word out that we want him, and we're willing to pay $25 million to get him.
And the Washington Post is offended. These guys make my skin crawl.
Almost every suicide bomber that has occured since the war began has been from al-Qaeda in Iraq. That is about 1000 suicide bombers at this point. And, I would estimate the death toll alone from them collectively is more then 20,000.
And, given the fact Zarqawi has the most active terrorist network in Europe today, this isn't just bullsh*t it is horrifically offensive to those he has killed.
If there is one thing that could make us lose in Iraq it is Zarqawi pulling off another Samarra and the country decending into sectarian war.
Sunni/Shia hatred wasn't nearly as bad two years ago until he started his mass murder campaign against Shia civilians and holy sites.
ON THE NET...
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/wanted_captured/index.cfm?page=Wanted_Terrorist
http://www.rewardsforjustice.net/english/wanted_captured/index.cfm?page=Al_Zarqawi
INTELLIGENCE-SUMMIT.blogspot.com (AKI): Tehran - "TERRORISM: U.S. OFFICIALS FEAR IRAN IS HELPING AL-QAEDA" (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Los Angeles Times said US intelligence officials cited evidence from highly classified satellite feeds and electronic eavesdropping as proof that the recently elected Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be forging an alliance with the terrorist network's operatives as a way to expand Iran's influence.") (March 22, 2006)
The part "Member of Harvard University" makes me nervous.
Do you want me to spell it out for you retards at the Washington Post why the US military focuses on Zarqawi instead of the ex-Baathists? Because, we are freeking in negotiations constantly to bring the Baathists into the government and the military to create a unitied Iraq.
al-Qaeda in Iraq has sent out about 1000 suicide bombers since the war began and they have destoryed several of the holiest sites to all of Shia Islam. If the Shia population didn't blame Zarqawi for a great deal of the violence then we would be in the middle of an all out civil war right now.
The vast majority of ex-baathists don't want a civil war and niether does the religious Shia. They both want power and are trying to reach a power and wealth sharing agreement democratically, even though the negotiations often spills out in the streets. However, Zarqawi's attacks are making bringing the two sides together a many times harder then it should be.
Every young Saudi or Syrian that comes to Iraq is intigrated into his network. They are brainwashed, trained, fitted with a suicide vest or car bomb and given a target. I would estimate more then 20,000 Iraqis have died since the war began from suicide attacks.
But, the biggest reason Zarqawi matters goes far beyond Iraq. He ordered the mass murder of over 60 people at a wedding in Jordan just a few months ago, he was behind the Hotel attacks in Egypt, he planned chemical attacks in his own country, he planned suicide attacks in Germany, he planned on downing a french airliner, he was behind a ricin plot in the UK, he is I am sure planning at this moment attacks in the Lavanet. And, most importantly for Americans on his laptop he looked at the possibility of pulling off a Beslan type attack on US soil by sneaking terrorists across the southern border.
Now, I will ask the Washington Post again. Who should the US military be focusing on, ex-baathists that we are trying to bring into the democratic process and who have no desire to go overseas and kill anyone or the transnational terrorists that are trying their dam*est to cause a civil war and spread their terror across the Middle East and into Europe and the US?
I know this might come as a shock to you fools at the Washington Post, but Zarqawi actually does want to kill you and your children.
He's just misunderstood. Shame on you for not being more sensitive! ;-)
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