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[Aquarian Conspirators: ALERTS, NEWS, COMMENTARY, and the occasional Rant] The Man Who Sold the War: As the war in Iraq has spiraled out of control, the Bush administration's covert propaganda campaign has intensified. According to a secret Pentagon report personally approved by Rumsfeld in October 2003 and obtained by Rolling Stone, the Strategic Command is authorized to engage in "military deception" -- defined as "presenting false information, images or statements." The seventy-four-page document, titled "Information Operations Roadmap," also calls for psychological operations to be launched over radio, television, cell phones and "emerging technologies" such as the Internet.
[Brainster's Blog] Here's a Terrific Idea That I'm Going to Steal At...: France faces tough choices and, unlike Baghdad, in Paris you can't even talk about them honestly. As Jean-Claude Dassier, director-general of the French news station LCI, told a broadcasters' conference in Amsterdam, he has been playing down the riots on the following grounds: "Politics in France is heading to the Right and I don't want Right-wing politicians back in second or even first place because we showed burning cars on television."
[Nevada Thunder] NEVADA THUNDER - MUST READ: Finally, in early 2004, more than two years after he made the dramatic allegations to Miller and Moran about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction, al-Haideri was taken back to Iraq by the CIA’s Iraq Survey Group. On a wide-ranging trip through Baghdad and other key locations, al-Haideri was given the opportunity to point out exactly where Saddam’s stockpiles were hidden, confirming the charges that had helped to start a war.
[ Metaphysically Wrinkle Free] Friday in Pictures: 11/14/05 IraqBaghdad 3 2 Three people are killed and two wounded... Baghdad 8 12 At least one car bomb goes off in a marketplace, killing eight shoppers, including an 8-year
[Dailywarnews.blogspot.com] Today in Iraq: THE TRAGEDY OF IRAQ: General Prosecutor in Al Musel Demands for Prosecuting the commanders of the Wolf Brigade. Al Musel - Nainawa's general prosecutor has demanded for taking action against the Iraqi security authorities, "which executed illegal operations of detention and investigation and has published confessions of detainees, under torture, in the press, without referring to the general prosecution in the province." He pointed out, "The marks of torture were clear on the faces of those who confessed on TV screens after they were detained by the Wolf Brigade, under the interior ministry." “The confessions that were screened on TV are suspicious” (thanks to JSNarins for the link)
[Back-to-iraq.com] Back to Iraq 3.0: s members are former military men who, by definition, were members of the Ba’ath Party, but that does not mean they subscribe fully to the Ba’athist ideology or that they follow Saddam. They are generally more nationalistic than Ba’athist, but their ideology is a complicated mishmash of Iraqi nationalism and pan-Arabism.
[Juancole.com] Informed Comment: Most of the men who were mistreated and half-starved were Sunni Arabs, and they were in the custody of the Ministry of the Interior, which is dominated by the Shiite Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Although some Sunni Arabs have some influnce in the ministry, efforts are being made by the Badr Corps Shiite paramilitary of SCIRI to infiltrate the special police brigades run by the ministry of the interior.
[Blogjam.com] Wires - A girl, a toolkit, Iraq: It isn’t going to be an easy road, but the Iraqi people are accustomed to greater hardships. The insurgency in Iraq won’t disappear over night, and will likely never disappear completely, but as an Iraqi government emerges we can only hope that the new government will be able to contend with the challenges posed by a determined minority.
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