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News from Afghanistan.

Specialist Nicholas Barron, Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team, pulls security in Parwan Province, Afghanistan. Photo by Private First Class. Daniel M. Rangel.  Photo courtesy the DoD.
Specialist Nicholas Barron, Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team, pulls security in Parwan Province, Afghanistan. Photo by Private First Class. Daniel M. Rangel. Photo courtesy the DoD.

Meanwhile, in other news... click on the pictures to read the stories! These guys are getting their Information Operations (IO) act together. From both a passive and active perspective.

071227-A-2133A-004 - An Afghan girl cherishes a new toy while wearing a new jacket she received from an Afghan National Army soldier, Dec. 27. The ANA handed out toys and jackets to Afghan villagers after they processed through a medical clinic staffed by ANA, Ministry of Health and Coalition doctors. The clinic, conducted near Farah, Farah Province, provided medical care for more than 175 villagers from throughout the province. (U.S. Army photo)

If you'd like a larger version of that picture - click here.

This one is a not-so-passive IO.

Within hours of the brutal assassination of Benazir Bhutto officials in Pakistan and the US released news of intelligence intercepts linking Al Qaeda to the killing.  The Asia Times Online quoted “al-Qaeda’s top commander for Afghanistan operations and spokesperson Mustafa Abu al-Yazid” who proclaimed in a telephone interview, 'We terminated the most precious American asset which vowed to defeat mujahidin.  This is our first major victory against those [eg, Bhutto and President Pervez Musharraf] who have been siding with infidels [the West] in a fight against al-Qaeda and declared a war against mujahidin.'

And make no mistake - this is an IO, too.

ANA Mortar team conducts React to Contact Battle Drill on rugged terrain in FOB Wilderness


Of course, this whole *post* is my own little IO, conducted with the assistance of CJTF-82, but under no one's direction but my own.

1 Comments

Your own little autonomous, distributed, Strategic Citizen not CNO, not EW, not MILDEC, not OPSEC IO based on a PA product. I love it.
 
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