ABU MUSAB AL-ZARQAWI : THE PSYOP

We trembled at the mere whisper of his name. This 20 foot tall Goliath destroying the occupying forces in Iraq with a flick of his little toe.

This is the image we have of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. He was blamed for everything that occured in Iraq. Kidnappings and beheadings, bombings, the insurgency. The works. He was al-Qaeda in Iraq. Occupying forces laid waste to whole communities in their quest to hunt this man down.

But last week came the admission, long suspected, that there was more a myth about the man being created by psyops within the occupying forces.

Michael Chossudovsky analyses these latest reports at http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=CHO20060418&articleId=2275

But if al-Zarqawi didn't do half the stuff he was blamed for, then who did?

From the aformentioned article:

In an unusual twist, the Washington Post in a recent article, has acknowledged that the role of Zarqawi had been deliberately "magnified" by the Pentagon with a view to galvanizing public support for the US-UK led "war on terrorism":

The military's propaganda program, according to the Washington Post, has "largely been aimed at Iraqis, but seems to have spilled over into the U.S. media. One briefing slide about U.S. "strategic communications" in Iraq, prepared for Army Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the top U.S. commander in Iraq, describes the "home audience" as one of six major targets of the American side of the war." (WP, op cit.)

An internal document produced by U.S. military headquarters in Iraq, states that "the Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date." (WP, op cit) .

If they can do that there with him, why not over here at home with someone else?