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	The '''Zarqawi PSYOP program''' refers to a US ] program, or propaganda campaign, as part of the ], exaggerating the importance of ] in ] and the Iraq insurgency.<ref name="WaPo">, The Washington Post, 10 April 2006</ref>
	<ref name="Salon"> Ignoring U.S. intelligence, Bush inflated Zarqawi, then made a pointless trip to Iraq to pose as a heroic dragon slayer. It doesn't work anymore, By Sidney Blumenthal, ], June 15, 2006</ref><ref name="CounterPunch1"> by Jennifer van Bergen, ], June 12, 2006</ref><ref name="Global_Research"> by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, June 09, 2006,</ref><ref name="CounterPunch2">, Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch, June 9, 2006</ref><ref name="GRca"> by Michel Chossudovsky, ], April 18, 2006</ref><ref name="RollingStone"> by Tim Dickinson, ], April 11, 2006</ref>

	One of the goals was to set up local citizens against him by portraying him as a foreigner and key actor in the insurgency. Another goal was to ensure continued support for the War on Terror by keeping "]s" in the news.<ref name="WaPo"/>

	==Rise to power==
	Several incidents made him from an unknown and unimportant individual<ref name="Uruknet"> By Sunil K. Sharma, ], June 8, 2006</ref> to the well-known voice of Al Qaeda in Iraq. Following the allegation he was a link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, before the ], by ] in 2003, he became the embodyment of resistance against the US in the Muslim world. Another stimulus for his popularity was the ] by the Bush administratuion. After the capture of Sadam Hussein every mishap was blamed on Zarqawi. The repeated use of his name in relation to the insurgency turns out to be a well orchestrated campaign by the Pentagon.<ref name="CounterPunch2"/>

	==Program==
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	The ] reported on April 10, 2006, that in order to ensure continued support for the US led ], the role of Zarqawi was magnified by the ] in a ] campaign started in 2004. In the words of the Washington Post:
	:''For the past two years, U.S. military leaders have been using Iraqi media and other outlets in Baghdad to publicize Zarqawi's role in the insurgency. The documents explicitly list the "U.S. Home Audience" as one of the targets of a broader propaganda campaign.''<ref name="WaPo"/>

	Also the Washington post cites Col. Derek Harvey who said at a meeting by the Army in ]:
	:''"Our own focus on Zarqawi has enlarged his caricature, if you will - made him more important than he really is, in some ways."''<ref name="WaPo"/><ref name="RollingStone"/>

	Citing an internal memo by Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt the Washington Post states:
	:''"The Zarqawi PSYOP program is the most successful information campaign to date."''<ref name="WaPo"/><ref name="RollingStone"/>

	According to the same article:
	:''A goal of the campaign was to drive a wedge into the insurgency by emphasizing Zarqawi's terrorist acts and foreign origin, said officers familiar with the program.''<ref name="WaPo"/><ref name="RollingStone"/>

	Part of the goals was to inflame Iraqi citizens against him.<ref name="WaPo"/><ref name="CounterPunch1"/>

	General Kimmitt was the senior commander in charge of this program. The idea would be to desribe enemies as terrorists that is "enemies of America," in order to mislead the public into supporting the current US administration's Middle East policy. The ] of the continued "War on Terror" is the presence of a casus belli in the form of Al Zarqawi, Osama bin Laden and other "evil doers," as President Bush calls them.<ref name="GRca"/><ref name="RollingStone"/>

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