US Plans a Mission Against Taliban’s Propaganda
US Plans a Mission Against Taliban’s Propaganda – Thom Shanker, New York Times.
The Obama administration is establishing a new unit within the State Department for countering militant propaganda in Afghanistan and Pakistan, engaging more fully than ever in a war of words and ideas that it acknowledges the United States has been losing.
Proposals are being considered to give the team up to $150 million a year to spend on local FM radio stations, to counter illegal militant broadcasting, and on expanded cellphone service across Afghanistan and Pakistan. The project would step up the training of local journalists and help produce audio and video programming, as well as pamphlets, posters and CDs denigrating militants and their messages.
Senior officials say they consider the counterpropaganda mission to be vital to the war…
More at The New York Times.
