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POPSVermont Prepares to be Attacked, Psy-Ops Drill This is how to manipulate a liberal state through paranoia-based "military drills". Vermont might be one of the most improbable targets in the U.S.. Their Sen. Leahy happens to be one of those who was targeted by the (New Jersey based) "anthrax mailings" after 9/11, that said "Allah is great".
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POPSPress and "Psy Ops" to Merge Information Operations advises on information designed to affect the will of the enemy, while Psy Ops includes so-called "black operations," or outright deception. U.S. General David McKiernan, the commander of 50,000 troops from more than 40 nations in NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), ordered the combination of the Public Affairs Office (PAO), Information Operations and Psy Ops (Psychological Operations) from December 1, said a NATO official with detailed knowledge of the move. The new combined ISAF department will come under the command of an American one-star general reporting directly to McKiernan, an arrangement that is also against NATO policy, the NATO official said. "What we are seeing is a gradual increase of American influence in all areas of the war," the NATO official said. "Seeking to gain total control of the information flow from the campaign is just part of that."
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POPSInnocent Flesh-- Recruiting Kids to Kill
CONTINUING... I mention all this in relation to a recent news item from the Associated Press stating that the group the Pentagon calls Al-Qaida in Iraq is recruiting and training teenagers. For the moment, let's assume that this article is true and is not some kind of fake news planted by US psy-ops. According to the story, some videos were found in an operation against insurgents. According to Rear Admiral Smith of the US Navy, the videos "were meant to spread Al Qaida's message among the young rather than train the boys for missions." This was not the first time such videos had been found, the story continued, but "it was the most disturbing." Now, if I understand this right, the US military is appalled and disturbed because some Iraqi insurgent groups (that may or may not have anything to do with Al Qaida in Iraq) are using videos to propagandize among adolescents in the hope that they will enlist. Meanwhile, the US military, which is engaged in the same type of operations as