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US.mil launches Operation Desert Spam
By John Leyden
Posted: 13/01/2003 at 16:24 GMT
The US has launched a spam offensive in the hopes of
persuading senior Iraqi
officials to defect.
A senior unnamed US military official told CNN that
thousands of email
messages have been sent out since last Thursday,
when the unconventional
campaign began.
"This is just the beginning of a psychological
warfare campaign," he said.
The propaganda messages, written in Arabic and
targeted at senior officials
and military, apparently include a helpful guide on
how to defect, along with an
appeal to turn over any information on Iraq's
supposed chemical and biological
weapons programme to UN inspectors.
The messages, titled 'Important Information', also
urge military personnel to
disable weapons of mass destruction or refuse to use
them in the event of war,
which is starting to look increasingly likely.
It's believed to be the first time the US has used
email propaganda in an
information warfare campaign.
Iraq has reportedly shut off some Internet gateways
to stop these emails getting
through. The US military, which confirmed the story,
only after news of the
spam offensive leaked out, has pledged to get its
message across by using
radio broadcasts and leaflets dropped from airplanes
instead. .
