Missiles to stop satellite TV terror propaganda in Iraq.

[Peter Dow]

CBS News - broadcast February 1, 2007
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Iraq: Propaganda WAR
OK folks where is says "wrote:" in these quotes I mean "said:" - but you knew that!

The heavy fighting may be going on inside Iraq but Syria has become a major front in the propaganda war and the weapon of choice - television. Elizabeth Palmer has our exclusive report from Damascus.

The open desert along Syria’s border with Iraq is the only thing that lies between many young middle-eastern men and their dream of joining the jihad against American forces just miles away.
One of the most powerful calls to arms is Al-Zawraa TV. Banned in Iraq but beamed across the region on satellite, it’s hard core anti-American propaganda.
Al-Zawraa is run from Damascus by the former Saddam loyalist and Sunni member of Iraq’s parliament Mishaan Al Jabouri.
Do you think that you and your channel are part of the resistance?

Yes.

What we call in the west “the Sunni resistance” - are you part of the Sunni resistance?

Yes we are, exactly. This is our position.

Al-Zawraa broadcasts video filmed by insurgents of American soldiers in their sights and under attack.
Why do you show the American soldiers being killed?

Because we like to ask him to leave our country, why he come to my country?

Emails pour to Al-Zawraa from would-be fighters.
What about “Sniper the lion Ahmmed”?

Age 26. His job - student.

He and thousands like him not only want to fight Americans but also the Sunni’s other arch enemy Iraq’s Shiite militias. Al Zawraa shows them looting and taking heroine. It also mocks their revered leader Moqtada Al Sadr by blackening his teeth.

We think that Moqtada Sadr is one crazy man. He is blood man. He is killing man.

Mishaan Al Jabouri himself is a wanted man, not only for inciting violence in Iraq but for stealing millions of dollars ear-marked for Iraqi oil-pipeline security. It’s a charge he denies.
So far the Iraqi government hasn’t caught up with Jabouri living comfortably in the open in Syria. As open as the border young Jihadis cross on their way to fuel the chaos in Iraq.
Elizabeth Palmer, CBS News, Damascus.

Peter Dow comments -
Right well we’ll need to take all such terrorist enemy TV stations off the air, those that incite Sunni terrorists like this Al-Zawraa and also any equivalent stations which incite the Shiite terrorists, hosted I guess either in Iraq or Iran.

That should be obvious but actually it does need to be said, repeatedly, because the American-led coalition bringing freedom and democracy to Iraq has foolishly neglected to act against enemy propagandists.

I spotted this foolishness early after the toppling of Saddam’s regime and I warned on my website then that our forces were “Lions led by donkeys” when Saddam’s propaganda minister - Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf – "Comical Ali", remember him? - was excused and allowed to go free.

Enemy propagandists are not “comical” they are lethal. I don’t see anything comical in the killing of American, British and other coalition soldiers and civilians which those propagandists are inciting.

Our brave lions are being carried home dead in body-bags and coffins because our donkey military leaders have not seen fit yet to eliminate enemy propagandists and their high-tech tools of terror.

Although one cannot sensibly bomb “the internet” as such, the US military certainly can and should blast to bits any satellite in space which is broadcasting terror TV and the most effective enemy war propaganda.

In principle, it is easy to do because we know where the satellites are and we can hit them with no risk of collateral damage to civilians. Taking out an enemy satellite is a no-brainer.

There are only a limited number of countries (in collaboration with commercial companies perhaps) who can produce, launch into space and control these satellites and when we decide to take out satellites broadcasting enemy propaganda we are quickly going to find out who is really behind this terrorist war that is being waged against us. Then we'll see who is with us, and who is against us.

Some of the countries who can launch a satellite are also nuclear-weapon states, so depending on who our enemy is here, we need to be prepared for the threat of dramatic escalation of this war to the most extreme forms of warfare. Well it would be interesting to discover what an internet search will reveal in the case of the Al-Zawraa satellite? Who owns it? Who launched it?

I don’t know yet who exactly will lose out if we destroy their enemy propaganda satellites but I do know that we won't win in Iraq until we do muffle this sort of dangerous, evil propaganda.

So long as some idiot in the pentagon or wherever is commanding the military NOT to take these enemy satellites out, then it will remain a no-win scenario and a quagmire in Iraq.

In addition, if we have intelligence of the exact location of enemy propagandists at work then we can hit them with missiles, with a bit of luck, though there are risks of collateral damage and it means escalating the war in Iraq beyond Iraq’s borders - into Syria in the case of Al-Zarwaa TV but it could be other countries for other enemy TV stations being received in Iraq which are inciting further violence and chaos.

OK instead of just having our soldiers being killed on the roads of Iraq and getting stuck in a quagmire of a war, I am suggesting a more intelligent way to win this war by eliminating the most dangerous enemy propaganda.
Escalate the war with missile strikes into Syria and into space!

 

[VTA]

Russia helped Iran launch a satellite a year or so ago...

 

[Peter Dow]

Iraq X file: USA vs. USA (+ music video)

Iraq X file: USA vs. USA - View music video

The USA funds Arab regimes which incite terrorists to kill Americans

OK folks where is says "Posted" in these quotes I mean "said:" - but you knew that!

The heavy fighting may be going on inside Iraq but Syria has become a major front in the propaganda war and the weapon of choice - television. Elizabeth Palmer has our exclusive report from Damascus.

The open desert along Syria’s border with Iraq is the only thing that lies between many young middle-eastern men and their dream of joining the jihad against American forces just miles away.
One of the most powerful calls to arms is Al-Zawraa TV. Banned in Iraq but beamed across the region on satellite, it’s hard core anti-American propaganda..

Satellites:
Egypt's "Nilesat" & the Arabian-run "Arabsat".

Egyptian dictator Mubarak's regime gets more than one billion dollars ( $1,000,000,000 ) every year from the USA. Why?

$1 billion + every year from Uncle Sam to kill brave Americans in Iraq?!

With "allies" like Mubarak, the USA funds its own enemies.

Al-Zawraa is run from Damascus by the former Saddam loyalist and Sunni member of Iraq’s parliament Mishaan Al Jabouri.
Do you think that you and your channel are part of the resistance?

Yes.

What we call in the west “the Sunni resistance” - are you part of the Sunni resistance?

Yes we are, exactly. This is our position.

Al-Zawraa broadcasts video filmed by insurgents of American soldiers in their sights and under attack.
Why do you show the American soldiers being killed?

Because we like to ask him to leave our country, why he come to my country?

Emails pour to Al-Zawraa from would-be fighters.
What about “Sniper the lion Ahmmed”?

Age 26. His job - student.

He and thousands like him not only want to fight Americans but also the Sunni’s other arch enemy Iraq’s Shiite militias. Al Zawraa shows them looting and taking heroin. It also mocks their revered leader Moqtada Al Sadr by blackening his teeth.

We think that Moqtada Sadr is one crazy man. He is blood man. He is killing man.

Mishaan Al Jabouri himself is a wanted man, not only for inciting violence in Iraq but for stealing millions of dollars ear-marked for Iraqi oil-pipeline security. It’s a charge he denies.
So far the Iraqi government hasn’t caught up with Jabouri living comfortably in the open in Syria. As open as the border young Jihadis cross on their way to fuel the chaos in Iraq.

I'm enough of a historian to know that things that looked like brilliant policies at the time, turn out to have been really stupid

It's time to destroy these satellites and to stop funding our enemies.

IRAQI INSURGENTS LAUNCH 24-HOUR TELEVISION STATION
Broadcasting from a secret location in Syria, Al-Qaeda and its allies now have their own 24-hour television station, Pajamas Media has learned.

Known as Al-Zawraa, Arabic for “first channel,” the station broadcasts enemy propaganda and rebroadcasts of Western anti-war material, including Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. It is not connected with Al-Jazeera.

BY DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS & NICK GRACE
Published in Politics Central, December 15, 2006

Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, is delighted by al-Zawraa. A U.S. military intelligence officer told Pajamas Media that the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Masri, “has long-term and big plans for this thing.” Previous attempts by al-Qaeda to set up media propaganda outlets have been limited to satellite radio and the Internet. Al-Zawraa, however, is seemingly well financed and striving for a broader appeal.

From that secret studio somewhere in Syria, al-Zawraa TV’s signal extends to the entire Arab world thanks to a satellite owned by Egypt, Pajamas Media has learned.

Egypt is officially an ally of the United States in the war on terror. It receives more than $1 billion a year in U.S. foreign aid, more than any other country on Earth except Israel.

The channel’s reach is not limited to Iraq—a fact that highlights the Egyptian government’s apparent permissiveness. Al-Zawraa is broadcast on Nilesat, a satellite administered by the Egyptian government. Through Nilesat, al-Zawraa’s signal blankets the Middle East and North Africa, thus ensuring that the insurgents’ message reaches the entire Arab world.

Al-Zawraa TV began broadcasting on November 14. The channel was set up by the Islamic Army of Iraq, an insurgent group comprised of former Baathists who were loyal to Saddam Hussein and now profess a conversion to a bin Laden-like ideology, according to Middle East-based media monitor Marwan Soliman.

The Islamic Army of Iraq is subordinate to the Mujahideen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of Sunni insurgent groups, a military intelligence officer told Pajamas Media. The al-Zawraa network is viewed as “credible” by users of established jihadist internet forums.

Al-Zawraa’s content is heavy with insurgent propaganda, including audio messages from Islamic Army of Iraq spokesman Dr. Ali al-Na’ami and footage of the group’s frontline operations. The station openly calls for violence against Shia Iraqis and the Iraqi government. News anchors appear in military fatigues to rail against the ruling government, and news crawls urge viewers to support the Islamic Army of Iraq and “help liberate Iraq from the occupying U.S. and Iranian forces,” Marwan Soliman told Pajamas Media.

Sitting in the Fallujah Government Center in Fallujah, Iraq, military analyst Bill Roggio, who is embedded with the Military Transition Team, watched al-Zawraa with two soldiers from the Iraqi army and a pair of interpreters.

Roggio reports that songs mourned Iraqi victims of the “U.S. occupiers,” and that images featured on al-Zawraa included “destroyed mosques, dead women and children, women weeping of the death of their family, bloodstained floors, the destruction of U.S. humvees and armored vehicles, and insurgents firing mortars, RPGs, rockets and AK-47s.” These pictures were meant to be provocative to jihad-minded youth. His complete account can be found on his blog.

Roggio told Pajamas Media that the station’s strategic role for insurgent and al-Qaeda information operations is clear: “Al-Zawraa is designed to recruit for and prolong the insurgency in Iraq. It openly espouses violence, particularly against the Shia, but also against the Iraqi government and security forces and Coalition troops.”

Radio Netherlands’ media analyst Andy Sennitt told Pajamas Media that al-Zawraa’s broadcasts on Nilesat creates questions about the Egyptian government’s role. “Nilesat is mostly Egyptian owned,” Sennit said, “so it means they will turn down any customer who is thought to produce material against Egypt’s national interest. So apparently the Egyptian authorities are happy with al-Zawraa.”

The programming originates from Syria, where its main backer, Mishaan al-Jabouri, a well-known Sunni Baathist agitator and former Iraqi parliamentarian, recently fled to escape an Iraqi arrest warrant for suspected corruption and embezzlement. He initially set the station up in Tikrit, Iraq, but in early November its studio was raided by authorities and closed down for incitement.

Al-Jabouri, who in Damascus during the final years of Saddam Hussein’s rule, is widely believed to have forged close ties with Saddam’s intelligence services. More recently, he has been linked to al-Qaeda.

The speed with which al-Zawraa was able to resume its transmissions from Syria and Nilesat after the raid on the Tikrit station is unusual, according to Sennitt. Moreover, the reach of al-Zawraa’s broadcasts indicates that the station is attempting to influence viewers far beyond Iraq.

Government officials tell Pajamas Media that they are trying to remove al-Zawraa from the airwaves. Jim Turner, deputy director of Defense Press Operations, told Pajamas Media in an e-mail that this is the State Department’s decision because “they are the department of the US Government that would interact with another country on such an issue.”

In turn, a State Department official told Pajamas Media, “We are strongly supporting the Iraqi efforts to work with the Egyptians to get this off the air.” The State Department’s comment seems designed to avoid diplomatic fallout, since Egypt’s control of Nilesat would allow it to stop al-Zawraa’s signal.

Arabsat Begins to Broadcast Insurgent Propaganda Station

By Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
Published on the Counterterrorism blog, January 26, 2007

Nick Grace and I have been following the case of al-Zawraa TV, a 24-hour insurgent station that focuses on Iraq but is broadcast through the Middle East. Here's how we described the station in a Daily Standard article on January 3:

Al-Zawraa hit the airwaves on November 14. ...

When we wrote this, al-Zawraa was being broadcast by Nilesat, a powerful satellite administered by the Egyptian government. Today, BBC Monitoring reports that al-Zawraa has been picked up by Saudi-based Arabsat, thus making it more difficult to shut down the station:

On Friday 26 January BBC Monitoring observed Al-Zawraa TV, a Sunni satellite channel that targets viewers in Iraq and the Middle East, transmitting on Badr 4, one of the Arabsat satellites, at 26 degrees east.

Al-Zawraa also continues to be carried on the Egyptian-run Nilesat satellite.

Arabsat, based in Saudi Arabia, is an intergovernmental organization established originally by the Arab League. Saudi Arabia is the main stakeholder.

Al-Zawraa's founder is Mishan al-Jaburi, a former member of the Iraqi parliament and leader of the Sunni Arab Front for Reconciliation and Liberation.

The US has expressed concern about the content of the channel's broadcasts. An unnamed US official quoted by United Press International news agency on 14 January said: "We are very concerned about this. Al-Zawraa is glorifying the killing of American and Iraqi government officials, which we strongly object to. This needs to be taken care of. . . . This should never have been on air in the first place, much less over the satellite of a country that professes to be a friend of the United States."

Al-Zawraa is now based in Syria, after its studios in Iraq were closed by the Iraqi Interior Ministry in November 2006, for allegedly inciting violence and terrorism.

The Iraqi government has also asked Egypt to remove Al-Zawraa from the Nilesat satellite. So far, Egypt has refused to take Al-Zawraa off the air, saying that the channel's broadcasts are a purely commercial arrangement.

 

[Francaisforever]

Re: Iraq X file: USA vs. USA (+ music video)

hey dude, looking at your picture you look like Hitler.......After reading your material, you sound like him too. Bravo!

 

[Peter Dow]

Re: Iraq X file: USA vs. USA (+ music video)

Iraq X file: USA vs. USA - View music video

More for the X-file:

Iraq X file: USA Arab arms deals View Video

The USA arms Arab regimes which incite terrorists to kill Americans.

Slightly edited British Channel 4 News report on the visit of Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates to Arab countries, offering arms deals carrots to buy the loyalty of unreliable undemocratic Arab regimes.

They'll never love you like we do Condi. Try the stick.

Music added - theme tune to TV Sci-fi series, "The X Files".

 

[Peter Dow]

I've just added a new video to the Iraq X-file - posted in breaking news.

Now I need to repost the above mentioned Iraq X-file videos because I had a problem with my YouTube account and I've had to upload all my videos again.

So here is the complete Iraq X-file in one place, you lucky people!

Iraq X-File: USA vs USA (1) Support satellite terror TV NOT!
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Iraq X-File: USA vs USA. (2) Arm the enemy. NOT!
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Americans stabbed in the back by the Saudi Kingdom
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America's 'allies' Saudi & Pakistan: 'enemies' more like!
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and today's addition to the Iraq X-file -

Satellite terror TV incites Jordanians to terrorism in Iraq.
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[Jaguar b. p.]

because the American-led coalition bringing freedom and democracy to Iraq

What freedom, people can't even go out freely. Let alone print a magazine that Americans don't approve of.

I spotted this foolishness early after the toppling of Saddam’s regime and then that our forces were “Lions led by donkeys”

You are half right actually, they are baboons led by donkeys

 

[Lerxst]

You are half right actually, they are baboons led by donkeys

Could you please go take up the cause put on one of those bomb vests....please.

 

[cherokee]

Could you please go take up the cause put on one of those bomb vests....please.

She/he (not really sure what it is) doesnt have the guts to just like the Islamic's leaders...Gotta brainwash others into doing it...

 

[Peter Dow]

We are sorry this video is no longer available.

- is all you get from the above embedded videos. I had reposted them but then the YouTube tag stopped working here. So here goes once again ...



So here is the complete Iraq X-file in one place, you lucky people!

Iraq X-File: USA vs USA (1) Support satellite terror TV NOT!


Iraq X-File: USA vs USA. (2) Arm the enemy. NOT!


Americans stabbed in the back by the Saudi Kingdom

America's 'allies' Saudi & Pakistan: 'enemies' more like!

and the most recent addition to the Iraq X-file -

Satellite terror TV incites Jordanians to terrorism in Iraq.

 

[MarcusMagnus]

Peter Dow supports free speech. Wait, only speech he agrees with.

 

[scourge99]

- is all you get from the above embedded videos. I had reposted them but then the YouTube tag stopped working here. So here goes once again ...

Your ignorance regarding foreign policy is astounding. We (US) cannot make enemies of every country in the world. Cutting funds, destroying satelites, and other hostile acts may win the battle but will cost us the war. Our diplomatic relations are far more complicated than you believe them to be.