by William Bowles
Friday, 9 June, 2006 "The Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date." - Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the U.S. military's chief spokesmanThere can be no doubt that the 'death' of 'Abu Musab al-Zarqawi' is part of a carefully planned disinformation campaign designed to divert attention away from the slaughter of Haditha (and elsewhere), a campaign that the corporate and state media have gleefully participated in. Indeed, 'al-Zarqawi' is itself a psy-ops programme in its own right, replete with faked letters of authenticity, fed to the press by the US military, which calls into question the source of the Internet videos of beheadings, and who is behind the wave of kidnappings and murders currently sweeping Iraq. |
By Greg Mitchell
Editor and Publisher
April 10, 2006NEW YORK - Midway through Thomas Ricks' Washington Post scoop on Monday detailing a U.S. military "propaganda program" aimed at convincing Iraqis that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has a very prominent role in directing violence in that country, there is one specific tip on how the plan may have also targeted American reporters and audiences.
RiverBendBlog
Saturday, June 10, 2006 So 'Zarqawi' is finally dead. It was an interesting piece of news that greeted us yesterday morning (or was it the day before? I've lost track of time...). I didn't bother with the pictures and film they showed of him because I, personally, have been saturated with images of broken, bleeding bodies.
The reactions have been different. There's a general consensus amongst family and friends that he won't be missed, whoever he is. There is also doubt- who was he really? Did he even exist? Was he truly the huge terror the Americans made him out to be? When did he actually die? People swear he was dead back in 2003... The timing is extremely suspicious: just when people were getting really fed up with the useless Iraqi government, Zarqawi is killed and Maliki is hailed the victorious leader of the occupied world! (And no- Iraqis aren't celebrating in the streets- worries over electricity, water, death squads, tests, corpses and extremists in high places prevail right now.) |
BY JED GRAHAM
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY 6/9/2006 For one day at least, President Bush was more popular than he's been all year.
The president's lagging poll numbers got a swift boost from Thursday's news that U.S. warplanes had killed Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted-terrorist in Iraq. Polling done on Thursday for the IBD/TIPP Presidential Leadership Index gave Bush a 44.2 rating, up from 39.1 in the prior days of June and 38.9 in May. The last time the Index reached this level was in December, when it hit 44.3. |
nbc4i.com
June 10, 2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An Iraqi man who was one of the first people on the scene after an airstrike that led to the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi told Associated Press Television News that he saw American troops beating a man who had a beard like the al-Qaida leader.
The witness said he saw the man lying on the ground, badly wounded but still alive. He said U.S. troops arriving on the scene wrapped the man's head in an Arab robe and began beating him. His account cannot be independently verified. The spokesman for the U.S.-led forces in Iraq says troops tried to provide medical attention after they saw that al-Zarqawi was alive but he recognized them as American troops and tried to get away. Comment: You see, now the argument will be about if US troops handled themselves appropriately - instead of whether or not the man they killed was really al-Zarqawi. It's a popular tactic used by the Neocons, and it works every single time.
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www.chinaview.cn 2006-06-12 13:45:11
BEIJING, June 12 (Xinhuanet)-- A U.S. military autopsy was finished Sunday on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a terrorist leader killed Wednesday in a U.S. airstrike in Iraq.
But the findings were not immediately released by American officials. Comment: As we have already noted, there is simply no way to know the truth of what really happened around this incident. The simple fact is that the US government needed a public "victory" to try to sway the American people into supporting their government, even just a little. The control of information out of Iraq is so complete that it would have been easy for the entire capture of Zarqawi to have been staged, and given the US government's track record in the truth telling department, we have no reason to believe that there is anything real about the al-Zarqawi capture.
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AP
Sunday, June 11, 2006 CAIRO, Egypt - Al Qaeda in Iraq vowed Sunday to carry out "major attacks," insisting in a Web statement that it was still powerful after the death of leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
The statement did not name a successor to al-Zarqawi, who was killed by a U.S. airstrike last week. But it said the group's leadership "renews its allegiance" to Osama bin Laden. It vowed "to prepare major attacks that will shake the enemy like an earthquake and rattle them out of sleep." The authenticity of the statement could not be independently confirmed. |
CNN
Saturday, June 10, 2006 A video on an Islamist Web site shows terrorists beheading three people who appear to be Iraqi army soldiers after making them confess that they were part of a "death squad" that killed Sunnis.
"Whoever insists on fighting Islam and Muslims and joins the apostasy army, we say to him: 'You will not go any further without us targeting you, God willing,'" read a statement on the site from a group calling itself Ansar al-Sunna. "And you will not drive a car without us following you. And you will remain to live in terror until we terminate you so your end becomes in hell, and what a humiliating ending it is." |
Mon Jun 12, 2006 1:17am ET15
By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush convenes a war council this week hoping to build momentum after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death, but the big question overhanging the talks is when U.S. troops will return from Iraq.
Bush will hold two days of high-level consultations at Camp David starting on Monday to reassess strategy on Iraq as he struggles with an increasingly unpopular war that has dragged down his approval ratings in a congressional election year. |
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