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...Islamabad. Heavily armed riot police ringed the city of Quetta near the Afghan border, where angry protests all last week left five people dead. Soldiers huddled behind sandbags and armored-personnel carriers patrolled the streets in restive Peshawar while young men shouted for jihad. Militants roamed through the port city of Karachi, burning, looting and clashing with police as they chanted, "Osama, nuclear power of the Muslim world!" As Muslim sympathizers of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban whipped up fury in the streets, Musharraf's show of force kept the protests under relative control. This time...
...Psyops isn't a perfect art. Some schemes can backfire. The CIA, for example, bought 1,030 soccer balls, painted with crossed Haitian and American flags on each, and planned to air drop them over Port au Prince before the invasion. But State Department officials, horrified at the thought of Haitian children beaned by the balls, objected. The balls were passed out to the kids after the Americans landed. A Defense Science Board study found that during NATO's 1999 air war over Kosovo, Commando Solo broadcasts were largely ineffective. No one knows how effective tactical psyops will...
...Oman Port The U.S. has been given access to a modern air base just off the coast of Oman...
...traffic light in this Pakistani port city, a boy was weaving between cars and motor-rickshaws, selling posters of Osama bin Laden. My friend bought one, and we were both struck by the expression on Osama's face. It was ascetic and yet sensual, as he floated above an Afghan mountain range where an eagle was ripping its claws into an American F-16 jet fighter as if it was some hapless pigeon...
...traffic light in this Pakistani port city, a boy was weaving between cars and motor-rickshaws, selling posters of Osama bin Laden. My friend bought one, and we were both struck by the expression on Osama's face. It was ascetic and yet sensual, as he floated above an Afghan mountain range where an eagle was ripping its claws into an American F-16 jet fighter as if it was some hapless pigeon...