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“Intelligence sources” claim Adam Gadahn is dead.
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In what is likely to be piece of well-meaning propaganda, The Sunday Telegraph reports that the SAS have ‘killed hundreds’ of terrorists who were responsible for the wave of car bombs in Iraq.
Interestingly, one of the unnamed British officers invokes the Malayan insurgency as a comparison of their activites in Iraq.
The Malayan insurgency was a ‘low intensity’ war, in which the concept of ‘countergangs’ (pdf) was developed further by people like General Frank Kitson.
What few details that have dripped out into the major media outlets, appear to suggest these lessons (and those of the British in Aden, Kenya, Cyprus and Northern Ireland) were also being used in Iraq.
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Documents posted on at the National Security Archive suggest that “the public relations push for war came before the intelligence analysis, which then conformed to public positions taken by Pentagon and White House officials”.
(Via PR Watch.)
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Not sure there is much to add to the commentary available on the MI5 briefing note which was ‘leaked’ to the Grauniad. Apart from, perhaps, noting that this ‘leak’ may not have been a ‘leak’ as such. All jokes aside, if there is no way of identifying a terrorist, then snooping on us all is just that little bit more justified isn’t it?
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Hardly surprising news: A Whitehall counter-terrorism unit is targeting media organisations as part of a global propaganda push designed to “taint the al-Qaida brand”. (Although they seem to do a good enough job on their own.)
This has prompted concern about interference in the BBC’s editorial independence, which the organisation strongly denies.
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Booman Tribune notes The Daily Telegraph’s role in pushing pro-war propaganda during the Bush years.
This should not be surprising. Even Martin Newland, a former editor of the paper, noted back in 2004:
Barbara Amiel is the wife of the disgraced former owner of the Telegraph Conrad Black. More important to Booman’s observations of the Telegraph’s role as a conduit for propoganda is Dean Godson — his activities have been detailed by Spinwatch.
Update: More from Septic Isle.
