Pentagon paid PR firm $540m to make fake terrorist videos (??)

[TomSea]

This could be anti-American prop; we can all read it for ourselves, this is from Middle East Monitor which is Palestinian news, Middle East Monitor, MEMO.

Pentagon paid PR firm $540m to make fake terrorist videos

The Pentagon paid a UK PR firm half a billion dollars to create fake terrorist videos in Iraq in a secret propaganda campaign exposed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

PR firm Bell Pottinger, known for its array of controversial clients including the Saudi government and Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s foundation, worked with the US military to create the propaganda in a secretive operation.

The firm reported to the CIA, the National Security Council and the Pentagon on the project with a mandate to portray Al-Qaeda in a negative light and track suspected sympathisers.

Continued: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20161002-pentagon-paid-pr-firm-540mn-to-make-fake-terrorist-videos/

Website for the "Bureau of Investigative Journalism": https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/ And they are reporting on this indeed.

Probably good to know about these stories without rushing to judgement. This is why that area of the world is complex; and we really don't know a lot of what is going on and some stories reporting on the war, may be complete balderdash.

[TomSea]

Clarion Project is trustworthy and they fight extremism. Now, I get this story, fake videos were made so they could monitor supporters.  They hashed out what the story actually meant. It makes more sense.

Pentagon Spends $500 Million on Fake Al-Qaeda Videos
The Pentagon made fake jihadi propaganda videos and monitored them to track support for extremist groups during its time occupying Iraq.
https://www.clarionproject.org/news/pentagon-spends-500-million-fake-al-qaeda-videos

[dfwgator]

[geronl]

$540 million dollars.... um no

[bigheadfred]

Clarion Project is trustworthy and they fight extremism. Now, I get this story, fake videos were made so they could monitor supporters.  They hashed out what the story actually meant. It makes more sense.

It does. A better version than the one my boss told me.

[Longmire]

It doesn't cost 500 million to make internet videos...let's hope that part isn't accurate.

[bigheadfred]

It doesn't cost 500 million to make internet videos...let's hope that part isn't accurate.

hillary's single internet Benghazi video cost quite a bit.