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Whats Really Happening in Iraq

#1825804 - 08/18/03 11:21 AM (20 years, 7 months ago)

No go for ?Saddam Elvis? posters
Pentagon nixes colonel?s idea to flush out his supporters

http://www.msnbc.com/news/953618.asp?0cv=CB20

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Aug. 18 ? U.S. military officials told NBC News that posters of Saddam Hussein dressed as celebrities such as Elvis Presley and Zsa Zsa Gabor will not be posted in Saddam?s hometown in an effort to flush out his supporters.

?WE?RE GOING to do something devious with these,? a chuckling Lieutenant-Colonel Steve Russell said last week, as he checked out a range of spoof Saddam pictures taken from the Internet.

?Most of the locals will love ?em and they?ll be laughing,? he said according to a Reuters report. ?But the bad guys are going to be upset, which will just make it easier for us to know who they are.?

But the military officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the computer-crafted posters were never officially sanctioned and that troops were being told to stop producing the images.

Central Command has produced images of Saddam in various disguises. Those images can be found online at the Central command website.

LOOKING FOR BAIT

Russell, whose 1st Battalion, 22nd Regiment is spearheading the 4th Infantry Division?s search for the deposed leader, reportedly had hoped to have the posters slapped up on walls around Tikrit from Monday.

Apparently intimidated by the U.S. Army?s heavy presence around town, more and more guerrillas are stashing their weapons and keeping a low profile, U.S. commanders say.

U.S. forces are trying to flush them out and hunt them while they can. One tactic Russell and his team uses is to make themselves the bait. On most nights, Humvees packed with soldiers will drive up and down what has been dubbed ?RPG Alley? to try to attract fire from locals armed with rocket-propelled grenades.

While that has had some success in recent weeks, Russell turned to the poster campaign to see if he could taunt Saddam loyalists into showing their faces.

Officers from the 4th Infantry?s psychological operations unit say it is not necessarily a bad idea, although they tend to favor more subtle leaflet drops.

?It?s mostly good for troop morale, but if we can put these posters up in Tikrit and the enemy can?t take them down, then at least it shows who owns the streets,? said Sgt. David Cade, a psychological operations specialist.

OFFENSIVE STRATEGY?

Yet while the posters might have helped divide locals into the amused and the infuriated, they also ran a serious risk of stoking fury among ordinary Iraqis who may not be pro-Saddam but still will not accept the idea of the Americans poking fun.

One of the posters showed Saddam?s head on Elvis?s dancing body, a gold crucifix hanging around his hairy chest.

Given fears in the Arab world that the invasion of Iraq was akin to a Christian crusade, some Iraqis say U.S. forces would do well to think twice about leaving the cross hanging around Saddam Elvis?s neck.

?Maybe it is funny for the soldiers, but I think most locals will find it very insulting,? said Uday, a 22-year-old working as a translator at the U.S. army base in Tikrit.

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So... anyone got a snapshot of these pics?

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