U.S. Military Covertly Pays to Run Stories in Iraqi Press ^58.5%

Los Angeles Times - By Mark Mazzetti, Borzou Daragahi - 11/30/2005, 8:00 AM

As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq. The articles, written by U.S. military "information operations" troops, are translated into Arabic and placed in Baghdad newspapers... more