U.S. govt. aiming propaganda comic book at Arab youth

[Cocoa]

via John Brown's blog...

http://www.uscpublicdiplomacy.org/index.php?/newsroom/johnbrown_main

http://www1.eps.gov/spg/ODA/USSOCOM/FortBraggNC/H92239-05-T-0026/Combine%20Synopsis%5FSolicitation.html

<snip>

1.1. BACKGROUND. In order to achieve long-term peace and stability in the Middle East, the youth need to be reached. One effective means of influencing youth is through the use of comic books. A series of comic books provides the opportunity for youth to learn lessons, develop role models and improve their education.

2. Qualifications, Experience and Requirements.

2.1. Contractor must demonstrate qualifications and experience in design and production of four-color comic books.

2.2. Knowledge of Arab language and cultures, law enforcement and small unit military operations is desired.

2.3. The comic books will be produced in Arabic so the boxes will have to follow a sequence of right to left and top to bottom. Although knowledge of Arabic is not required, the contractor must have the capability to incorporate Arabic text into the final product and also provide a copy with blank bubbles and void of all printed text ?sound effects.?

2.4. The series will be based on the security forces, military and police, in the near future in the Middle East in cooperation with the Ministries of Interior of some of those countries. The comic series will be subject to change based on initial focus group testing of a prototype comic. If the subject matter for a specific comic does not do well in its intended focus group then it may be dropped and/or a new basis for the comic will be selected. There may be opportunities for this series to continue and additional comic series to be developed next year based on feedback from the first series.

More…

[hippiepunk]

1. A comic book?

:wtf:

[Placebo]

2. And while the US is doing that...

these kids are having anti-American propaganda pumped into them from almost every available source. So there ya go. The money spend on this "comic book" could likely be more wisely spent elsewhere.

[Frederik]

3. You got to be kidding me

:rofl:

[onager]

4. They should...

...get Jack Chick to do these comics.

[NecessaryOnslaught]

5. Kind of like this, eh?

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2002/03/8542.shtml

[Cocoa]

6. holy shit

John Walker Lindh is rotting in prison, and Reagan was actually brainwashing youth into becoming jihadists all along.

I'd love to see one of those textbooks my tax dollars paid for...