Pentagon Spent Over $500 Million Making Fake Al-Qaeda Videos
Troops Would Litter Videos Around Sites of Raids
Ditz, Jason
http://news.antiwar.com/2016/10/02/pentagon-spent-over-500-million-making-fake-al-qaeda-videos/
Date Written: 2016-10-02
Publisher: Antiwar.com
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX20001
It has already been well-documented that the Pentagon spent a substantial amount of money on propaganda during the occupation of Iraq, running pro-occupation commercials and also covertly getting pro-occupation news stories into the media around the region. It turns out that was just the tip of the iceberg. It has now been revealed that there was a third program ongoing, in which a London-based PR agency was paid $540 million to make fake al-Qaeda propaganda videos for Pentagon use.