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Titolo: Gli USA aiutano Al-Zarqawi

Letteralmente e direttamente.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/09/AR2006040900890.html
Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi
Jordanian Painted As Foreign Threat To Iraq's Stability
By Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 10, 2006; A01
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.
The documents state that the U.S. campaign aims to turn Iraqis against
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian, by playing on their perceived
dislike of foreigners. U.S. authorities claim some success with that
effort, noting that some tribal Iraqi insurgents have attacked Zarqawi
loyalists.
For the past two years, U.S. military leaders have been using Iraqi
media and other outlets in Baghdad to publicize Zarqawi's role in the
insurgency. The documents explicitly list the "U.S. Home Audience" as
one of the targets of a broader propaganda campaign.
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. Although Zarqawi and other foreign
insurgents in Iraq have conducted deadly bombing attacks, they remain
"a very small part of the actual numbers," Col. Derek Harvey, who
served as a military intelligence officer in Iraq and then was one of
the top officers handling Iraq intelligence issues on the staff of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an Army meeting at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.,
last summer.
In a transcript of the meeting, Harvey said, "Our own focus on Zarqawi
has enlarged his caricature, if you will -- made him more important
than he really is, in some ways."
"The long-term threat is not Zarqawi or religious extremists, but these
former regime types and their friends," said Harvey, who did not return
phone calls seeking comment on his remarks.
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.
Recently there have been unconfirmed reports of a possible rift between
Zarqawi and the parent al-Qaeda organization that may have resulted in
his being demoted or cut loose. Last week, Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld said that it was unclear what was happening between Zarqawi
and al-Qaeda. "It may be that he's not being fired at all, but that he
is being focused on the military side of the al-Qaeda effort and he's
being asked to leave more of a political side possibly to others,
because of some disagreements within al-Qaeda," he said.
The military's propaganda program largely has been aimed at Iraqis, but
seems to have spilled over into the U.S. media. One briefing slide
about U.S. "strategic communications" in Iraq, prepared for Army Gen.
George W. Casey Jr., the top U.S. commander in Iraq, describes the
"home audience" as one of six major targets of the American side of the
war.
That slide, created by Casey's subordinates, does not specifically
state that U.S. citizens were being targeted by the effort, but other
sections of the briefings indicate that there were direct military
efforts to use the U.S. media to affect views of the war. One slide in
the same briefing, for example, noted that a "selective leak" about
Zarqawi was made to Dexter Filkins, a New York Times reporter based in
Baghdad. Filkins's resulting article, about a letter supposedly written
by Zarqawi and boasting of suicide attacks in Iraq, ran on the Times
front page on Feb. 9, 2004.
Leaks to reporters from U.S. officials in Iraq are common, but official
evidence of a propaganda operation using an American reporter is rare.
Filkins, reached by e-mail, said that he was not told at the time that
there was a psychological operations campaign aimed at Zarqawi, but
said he assumed that the military was releasing the letter "because it
had decided it was in its best interest to have it publicized." No
special conditions were placed upon him in being briefed on its
contents, he said. He said he was skeptical about the document's
authenticity then, and remains so now, and so at the time tried to
confirm its authenticity with officials outside the U.S. military.
"There was no attempt to manipulate the press," Brig. Gen. Mark
Kimmitt, the U.S. military's chief spokesman when the propaganda
campaign began in 2004, said in an interview Friday. "We trusted Dexter
to write an accurate story, and we gave him a good scoop."
Another briefing slide states that after U.S. commanders ordered that
the atrocities of Saddam Hussein's government be publicized, U.S.
psychological operations soldiers produced a video disc that not only
was widely disseminated inside Iraq, but also was "seen on Fox News."
U.S. military policy is not to aim psychological operations at
Americans, said Army Col. James A. Treadwell, who commanded the U.S.
military psyops unit in Iraq in 2003. "It is ingrained in U.S.: You
don't psyop Americans. We just don't do it," said Treadwell. He said he
left Iraq before the Zarqawi program began but was later told about it.
"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."
With satellite television, e-mail and the Internet, it is impossible to
prevent some carryover from propaganda campaigns overseas into the U.S.
media, said Treadwell, who is now director of a new project at the U.S.
Special Operations Command that focuses on "trans-regional" media
issues. Such carryover is "not blowback, it's bleed-over," he said.
"There's always going to be a certain amount of bleed-over with the
global information environment."
The Zarqawi program was not related to another effort, led by the
Lincoln Group, a U.S. consulting firm, to place pro-U.S. articles in
Iraq newspapers, according to the officer familiar with the program who
spoke on background.
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."
Kimmitt is now the senior planner on the staff of the Central Command
that directs operations in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East.
In 2003 and 2004, he coordinated public affairs, information operations
and psychological operations in Iraq -- though he said in an interview
the internal briefing must be mistaken because he did not actually run
the psychological operations and could not speak for them.
Kimmitt said, "There was clearly an information campaign to raise the
public awareness of who Zarqawi was, primarily for the Iraqi audience
but also with the international audience."
A goal of the campaign was to drive a wedge into the insurgency by
emphasizing Zarqawi's terrorist acts and foreign origin, said officers
familiar with the program.
"Through aggressive Strategic Communications, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi now
represents: Terrorism in Iraq/Foreign Fighters in Iraq/Suffering of
Iraqi People (Infrastructure Attacks)/Denial of Iraqi Aspirations," the
same briefing asserts.
Officials said one indication that the campaign worked is that over the
past several months, there have been reports that Iraqi tribal
insurgents have attacked Zarqawi loyalists, especially in the
culturally conservative province of Anbar. "What we're finding is
indeed the people of al-Anbar -- Fallujah and Ramadi, specifically --
have decided to turn against terrorists and foreign fighters," Maj. Gen
Rick Lynch, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said in February.

 for propaganda work.
Veramente mi sembra che stai facendo della disinformazione con il tuo titolo.
Enfatizzare il ruolo di un nemico e aiutarlo sono due cose uguali solo 
in una fantasia malata.
Am.

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Solo che, come dice l'articolo che evidentemente non hai letto, si e'
intenzionalmente "enfatizzato" un nemico che prima dell'"enfasi" era
insignificante.  E se e' diventato significante e' in gran parte a
causa dell'enfasi.
GT

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 Se e' stato enfatizzato e' per motivi politici, magari di politica 
interna USA.  Questo non vuol dire che non ci sia e che non e' 
combattuto sul posto con rastrellamenti continui.
Sostenere che gli USA lo aiutano  e' una fantasia  da miles domi. Teoria 
del complotto della peggior acqua.
Am.

 combattuto sul posto con rastrellamenti continui.
Come no.  Hanno gia' arrestato e ucciso dozzine di numeri due.
GT

 GT
Ma non e' questo il punto. Nell'header tu sostieni che gli USA aiutano 
Al Quaeda. Fino adesso in quel che dici non c'e' traccia di questo. Ne 
ci potrebbe essere. L'unica e' che ne abbiano gonfiato il ruolo, cosa 
ben diversa.
Cadi cioe' nell'errore di confondere fatti e propaganda, l'accessorio 
con il principale, e quindi produci un header ancora piu' falso della 
propaganda  che intendi denunciare.
Am.

amalric ha scritto:
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Giò, amalric è un russofobo assunto con un contratto da co.co.gliò da
tonigoebbels.
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Sergio e Gio', a tutto c'e' un limite. Fuori le prove.
Dogumenta!
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Am.

 Sergio e Gio', a tutto c'e' un limite. Fuori le prove.
ehi russofobo e razzista, fatti pure search con google . I tuoi post sui
russi e la Russia sono le prove.
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 russi e la Russia sono le prove.
Che tu stia con i nazionalcomunisti neostalinisti e imperialisti russi, 
non c'e' bisogno di Google. Nei vai fiero, no?
Magari se vuoi fornire una prova del mio contratto con Tb ci farai 
ridere di gusto. 
Piuttosto, per festeggiare,  balla la kalinka, su':
Kalin, kakka-lin, kakka-ya...
Am.

 ridere di gusto. 
"ci", tu e tb? 
circa il contratto da co.co.glio' , figuriamoci lui da craxianopugnettaro
ti ha assunto in nero 
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OK. Si sappia: stai con i nazionalcomunisti neostalinisti e imperialisti 
russi.
Ci sei cascato come un allocco in questa trappola per niubbi...
Am.

 > ti ha assunto in nero 
non hai risposto , russofobo londinese.
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 > ti ha assunto in nero 
non hai risposto , russofobo londinese.
 
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 non hai risposto , russofobo londinese.
Fatti non pugnette (visto che usi questo squallido vocabolario)...
Am.

 Fatti non pugnette (visto che usi questo squallido vocabolario)...
 
i tuoi post da razzistucolo russofobo in cui definisci la Russia "culo
dell'Asia" o quelli in cui ti esalti per le stragi di Basaev ?
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 quelli in cui ti esalti per le stragi di Basaev ?
Litio, non incubi, povero Se'...
Am.

amalric ha scritto:
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 ora neghi pure eh cialtrone?
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 ora neghi pure eh cialtrone?
se', ''na domanda..ma anche in RL litighi con tutti?
MMAX
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fatti li cazzi tua <g>
Si' eh?
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 Si' eh?
ma no, sono piu' pacifico di un hare krishna.
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