Shocking Video Link - U.S. Psy-Ops Countered By Islamic Digital Propaganda

U.S. Psy-Ops Countered By Islamic Digital Propaganda

By Scoop Co-Editor, Selwyn Manning
SOURCE URL: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0606/S00016.htm



Scoop Video (WMV & Quicktime versions): Click below to see this Scoop Media documentary. Editor's Warning: extreme caution - this video contains explicit and graphic acts of war and slaught
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The United States' dominion over 'psy-ops' and propaganda is no longer unchallenged. Islamic insurgents throughout the Muslim world are producing digital video clips with ever-increasing sophistication. The products of this technological revolution carry a double-edged message of 'glory' for youthful 'martyrs' and vengeance against the West.

Scoop has obtained video footage - delivered via underground networks and otherwise - originating from Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Turkistan, Algeria and Palestine.

The propaganda's message suggests the Islamic fight against US and western imperialism is spreading - and becoming more sophisticated.

Propaganda originating from the United States is high on emotion, and no less deadly in its threat.

Should you support to United States' foreign interests you will be shocked. Should you subscribe to the insurgency cause, you will be disturbed. Such is the nature of psy-ops: it is a battle between two civilisations for your opinions.

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In February 2006, the Australian newspaper, The Age, reported one of American's leading terror analysts, Bruce Hoffman of the Rand Corp, as saying that the insurgency film clips are spreading the jihadi propaganda at a quickening pace.

"A depressing aspect of these videos is how they reveal the insurgency perfecting the low-risk means of war — it's unique stuff. Seeing them show people how to stage various attacks ratchets things to a new level. The arms race we grew up with during the Cold War is unfolding at a different level and as quickly as the counter-insurgency catches up with it, the insurgency finds new ways."

Motives are many, but it is clear there is no shortage of insurgent recruits from the towns, villages and urban environs of the Sunni Triangle and the greater Muslim world. Fuelling these young fighters is a disgust at abuses such as: the Abu Ghraib Prison Tortures, the U.S. soldiers trading mutilated images of Iraqi dead for porn (see Scoop article: U.S. Soldiers Trade Images Of Iraqi Dead For Porn.), the abusive conduct of British soldiers in the south of Iraq, unreported instances of rape and murder throughout Iraq's cities, towns and villages, the psychological methods that abuse Islamic custom and doctrine - centring on what is considered obscene - to extract information from Iraqis who may or may not be involved in the anti-American insurgency.

All this is factored into the Jihadist propaganda.

The insurgents can be heard in the video clips chanting to Allah as the rockets launch, as the bombs explode, as a sniper marks another kill.

In 2003 Scoop displayed graphic images of innocents, including children, killed by the United States led coalition forces. Scoop justified the publishing of those images in an editorial that stated: To sanitise the reality of warfare is abhorrent to those serving the public interest. To censor images of capture, of death, as a consequence of war, is wrong. If Scoop were to do so, it would be subscribing to the glitzy rah rah top-gun Hollywood-façade-style of reportage that the mainstream United States based media has become obsessed with…

The founding purpose of information sharing is to empower individuals to make informed choices. If publishing these images causes those who would otherwise send more to their deaths or support the killing of innocents to consider the true consequence of their decisions, then publishing is justified.

Today, Scoop's position remains the same.

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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0606/S00016.htm

I can't watch the videos. But I appreciate how important this story is.

I don't have the heart to sit through video of why my heart already aches.

:thumbsup:

What comes through to me from the video is how sophisticated the war on terror has become. Stepping back from thus abyss will take some truly great leadership when the time comes.

Al, It's been a while but, I remeber a more coherent Al. We need someone to help up climb out of the abyss, not meerely step back from it.

Oh, thanks for the article.

-Hoot

great information as usual!

Love the pic in your sig.... :)

I will tell my son you love his artwork! :)

Kudos!!!...to "Scoop" and Selwyn Manning. What a stunning collection of material. I'm about to review the video tape after reading the story.

This an amazing story. Now I know what happened to the first amendment; it moved to New Zealand.



:yourock:

The irony however is that your first amendment is infinitely stronger than any freedom of speech protection we have here in godzone. You have true freedom of speech in America.... its just that your speakers have forgotten how to use it. (with a few remarkable exceptions...)

You are so right. Keep up the great work!!!

Tis kinda amazing to read that RFK Jnr report. How can it have taken so long... and still be ignored even now by the leadership in the DNC. They seem to have a political death wish....

Go DU!!!

Extended version of the original video with additional footage.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SP0606/S00003.htm

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