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Friday 16th June 2006

Regarding the death (or perhaps "death") of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the following article may be of interest:
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2006/06/16/120.html

Pentagon documents unearthed by The Washington Post this April revealed that the elevation of Zarqawi's profile was a deliberate, multimillion-dollar propaganda campaign aimed at the U.S. people to foment the lie that the insurgency was largely an al-Qaida terrorist operation, not a native rebellion against the occupation. As one Pentagon general put it: "The Zarqawi Psy-Op program is the most successful information campaign to date." One can only hope that the timely beheading of Nicholas Berg was not part of this "information campaign."