I heard on the radio on the way in this morning that the head of “Al Qaeda in Iraq, Ltd.” was assassinated yesterday by US forces. Unfortunately, several other folks, including a woman and a child, were also whacked in the process.
I wonder how this will be played. For a while, the US was touting Zarqawi as a super villain in the mold of Lex Luthor or Professor Moriarty. Then, a few weeks ago, they showed a video of him and ridiculed him as a bumbling fool. Now that he’s been assassinated, it sounds like he is back to being an evil genius.
It’s hard to tell how a good propagandist should spin this. Any spin could backfire. And you have to take into account that the politicos back home will be spinning it for their own ends, war effort be damned. And then there’s the pesky truth to worry about rearing its ugly head. What’s a PsyOps pro to do?
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Hilarious.
The "resistance" is practicing open source warfare and so the hierarchists look like they're from another planet.
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