Extra! 2004 Ed. 8 – Update August

August 1, 2004

War’s Iconic Image a PSYOPS Creation

The July 3 L.A. Times finally put to some sort of definitive rest the notion that it was ebullient Iraqis who pulled down the Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad’s Firdos Square in April of last year. The statue pulldown is described in an internal Army study, the Times reported, as one of many psychological operations […]

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