Iraq

Rendon Rocks Iraq

by Laura Miller — September 28, 2005 - 9:47pm

The Rendon Group, a PR firm that has assisted U.S. military interventions in at least seven countries, continues to be a Pentagon favorite. The secretive firm recently won a year-long $6.4 million contract with the Army for "Strategic Communications Operations Support" in Baghdad. In April 2005, O'Dwyer's PR Daily reported that Rendon "is winding down its current $8.2M contract" with the Pentagon's Strategic Command.

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Defenselink.mil, September 27, 2005

Propaganda, Iraq Style

by Diane Farsetta — September 19, 2005 - 12:03pm

Iraqis "find themselves under a propaganda bombardment from all sides," reports the Associated Press.

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Associated Press, September 17, 2005

Spreading Something Besides Democracy in Iraq

by Diane Farsetta — September 9, 2005 - 3:41pm

The Lincoln Group, one of three firms helping "to put more creativity into the Pentagon's psychological operations," is hiring. The firm just completed "a three-month image campaign with Iraq-based Al-Wathba Group to develop collateral material and a messaging strategy to introduce U.S.

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O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub. req'd.), September 9, 2005

A Very Slight Change in the Script

by Sheldon Rampton — August 23, 2005 - 3:54pm

During his speech in Salt Lake City on Mondy, President Bush for the first time mentioned the number of U.S. soldiers who have died in Iraq—a change in script that follows "months of painstakingly avoiding specific mention of the extent of American casualties in the war," notes Dan Froomkin.

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Washington Post, August 23, 2005

Russo Marsh and Rogers' Kurdish Delight

by Diane Farsetta — August 11, 2005 - 11:48am

The Republican Party-associated PR firm Russo Marsh and Rogers (RM&R) has been busy in Iraq, promoting Move America Forward's recent "Truth Tour" of right-wing radio hosts there and preparing a campaign for the Kurdish Regional Government.

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WorkingForChange, August 11, 2005

More Politics at the CIA

by Sheldon Rampton — August 1, 2005 - 2:53pm

A former Central Intelligence Agency officer has filed a lawsuit charging that he was fired for questioning the agency's now-disproven conclusion that Saddam Hussein was actively working to develop nuclear weapons. The former officer's attorney, Roy W.

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New York Times, August 1, 2005

Pentagon Repeats Quote In Separate Car Bombing Statements

by Laura Miller — July 25, 2005 - 5:06pm

Following a July 24 car bombing in Baghdad that killed 25 people and wounded 33 others, the Pentagon issued a press release with a "quotation attributed to an unidentified Iraqi that was virtually identical to a quote reacting to an attack on July 13," CNN reports.
"After questioning by news media, the military released the statement without the quotation." An army spokesman said the use of the nearly identical quote was an "administrative error" and that the military was looking into the matter.

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CNN.com, July 24, 2005

You Can't Handle the Truth

by Sheldon Rampton — July 24, 2005 - 1:41am

Lawyers for the Defense Department are refusing to cooperate with an order from a federal judge to release 87 secret photographs and four videotapes showing human rights abuses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The images reportedly depict abuses more shocking than any the public has yet seen. After viewing them last year, U.S.

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New York Times, July 23, 2005

Burson-Marseller's BKSH Gets Piece of Pentagon Psyops Pie

by Laura Miller — July 22, 2005 - 5:52pm

"Burson-Marsteller's BKSH & Assocs., has been hired by The Lincoln Group, one of three firms selected last month by the U.S. Special Operations Command to wage psychological warfare on behalf of the Pentagon in Iraq and other hot spots," O'Dwyer's PR Daily reports.

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O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub req'd), July 22, 2005

Rhetoric vs. Reality in London

by Sheldon Rampton — July 9, 2005 - 12:09am
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    • I've had the pleasure of visiting London on several occasions. I've ridden the subways and walked the streets where Thursday's awful terrorist attacks occurred.

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