Iraq border chief denies forged ballots seized

[leftchick]

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1404153

Dec 14, 2005 — By Mussab al-Khairalla

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The head of Iraq's border guards denied police reports on Wednesday that a tanker truck stuffed with thousands of forged ballot papers had been seized crossing into Iraq from Iran before Thursday's elections.

"This is all a lie," said Lieutenant General Ahmed al-Khafaji, the chief of the U.S.-trained force which has responsibility for all Iraq's borders.


"I heard this yesterday and I checked all the border crossings right away. The borders are all closed anyway," he told Reuters.

Iraq's frontiers are closed for the period of the election.

"I contacted all the border crossing points and there was no report of any such incident," Khafaji said.

Interior Minister Bayan Jabor also denied the reports, which the New York Times ran prominently, quoting a single unnamed Interior Ministry source, and said it was an attempt to discredit the election process.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Another lie?

Are they just trying to compile a bunch of them in hopes that the US public will "demand" an invasion of Iran? Don't think it will work--military's stretched too tight, and to Joe Sixpack one Middle Easterner looks just like another, and we're already in that country that begins with an "I".

[Spazito]

2. Well, well, well, this certain fits with this article

Pentagon rolls out stealth PR

WASHINGTON — A $300 million Pentagon psychological warfare operation includes plans for placing pro-American messages in foreign media outlets without disclosing the U.S. government as the source, one of the military officials in charge of the program says.

Run by psychological warfare experts at the U.S. Special Operations Command, the media campaign is being designed to counter terrorist ideology and sway foreign audiences to support American policies. The military wants to fight the information war against al-Qaeda through newspapers, websites, radio, television and "novelty items" such as T-shirts and bumper stickers.

The program will operate throughout the world, including in allied nations and in countries where the United States is not involved in armed conflict.

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The three companies handling the campaign include the Lincoln Group, the company being investigated by the Pentagon for paying Iraqi newspapers to run pro-U.S. stories.

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http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-12-14-pentagon-pr_x.htm

[leftchick]

3. It sure does

and the idiots on CNN are still yammering that this incident it true. CNN.... THE number one propaganda channel.