The Counter-deception Blog
Examples of deceptions and descriptions of techniques to detect them. This Blog encourages the awareness of deception in daily life and discussion of practical means to spot probable deceptions. Send your examples of deception and counter-deception to colonel_stech@yahoo.com.Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Terror PSYOP at its worst
At Least 600 Killed in Stampede Near Baghdad Shrine
Rumors of a suicide bomber in the midst of a crowd of Shiite Muslim pilgrims set off a stampede Wednesday on a Tigris River bridge, killing hundreds as panicked worshipers trampled others or hurled themselves off the bridge.
(By Ellen Knickmeyer,Naseer Nouri and Bassam Sebti, The Washington Post)
Reportedly, mortar attacks lent credence to the rumors. This massive loss of life provides the insurgent propagandists with even more ammunition for the claim that the Coalition and the Iraqi police and military are incapable of providing order in Iraq. The loss will also tend to coalesce Shi’ia support for Shiite militias and private armies to provide security.
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