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CAMP BUCCA, Iraq April 27 — Chanting "Saddam no, Bush yes," some 200 Iraqi prisoners of war were let go Sunday at the coalition's main internment camp in the desert near the southern port of Umm Qasr.The men, many of them barefooted, shook hands with the American soldiers guarding the camp before boarding buses and trucks to be driven to nearby Basra, southern Iraq's largest city.Their departure brought to 700 the number of POWs released since Friday, said Maj. Stacy Garrity of the U.S. Army's 800th Military Police Brigade, which runs the camp. Around 5,800 more prisoners, including some from...

  'I deserted Saddam's army' Iraq had a huge army, but only a fraction of its soldiers were killed or captured during the war. Hamed Nissam was one of those who took off his uniform and simply melted away. Hamed Nissam: "I held up a white flag and ran home" I was a tank driver defending Basra. It was a very old Russian tank, made in 1969.Because of the Americans' technological advantage, we were sure that we could not survive the war. We were horrified by the prospect of meeting them in battle. I was very afraid of being...

Pro-Taliban fliers call for jihad against U.S. Pashtu language pro-Taliban leaflets urging Afghans to wage jihad (holy war) against U.S.-led coalition forces and their "puppets" in Afghanistan were circulated overnight at refugee camps in northwest Pakistan, Afghan and official sources said yesterday. The pamphlets were found scattered around several refugee camps in the region bordering Afghanistan. Pakistan shelters around 1. 5 million Afghans, a majority of them living in camps in the northwestern region. The unsigned fliers were distributed in Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan on Monday night, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said....

WITH SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES, in southern Iraq, April 5 — These bombs flutter. With pockets of Iraqi forces continuing to put up fierce resistance around the port city of Basra, Special Operations commanders sent one of the Air Force's most secret aircraft into battle. The MC-130 Combat Talon is loaded with electronic equipment that enables the lumbering, 40-year-old propeller plane to dodge radars, missiles and even fighter jets to deliver commandos deep inside enemy territory. But last night, it carried a different payload: boxes of leaflets. "The coalition is here to put an end to the oppression caused by Saddam...

If it becomes a siege, British troops have developed a model KUWAIT CITY - Saddam Hussein's regime appears poised to fall as a U.S. invasion force stands on Baghdad's doorstep and his elite Republican Guard divisions have been sent reeling in defeat or have fallen back on the capital for a bloody last stand. Late last night, as U.S. troops attacked Baghdad's international airport, the city was plunged into darkness from unexplained power cuts and the situation on the battlefield was said to be so fluid no one could predict what would happen next. Some U.S. troops are said to...

British Troops Set Up Camp In Basra By ANJA NIEDRINGHAUS .c The Associated Press BASRA, Iraq (AP) - For the first time since war began, British troops established camp Thursday inside the southern city of Basra, where fierce battles have raged between the British, Iraqi fighters and residents who oppose Saddam Hussein's regime. British soldiers, deployed outside Iraq's second-largest city for more than two weeks, crossed the Shatt al-Basra waterway, a 45-foot-deep man-made canal near the southern city limits. Infantry accompanied by armored personnel carriers, tanks and helicopters rumbled over Bridge 4, the most direct route into the city. By...

Language gap put them in peril at U.S. checkpoint By Meg Laughlin Knight Ridder/Tribune news Published April 2, 2003 NEAR NAJAF, Iraq -- An Iraqi family that lost 11 members when U.S. soldiers opened fire as their vehicle approached a checkpoint was fleeing toward U.S. lines because they thought a leaflet dropped by American helicopters told them to "be safe," and that meant leaving their village, a survivor of the incident said Tuesday. Bakhat Hassan--who lost his daughters, ages 2 and 5, his son, 3, his parents, two older brothers, their wives and two nieces, ages 12 and 15, in...

Allies Pound Iraqi Vehicles in Basra By DOUG MELLGREN and NICOLE WINFIELD .c The Associated Press NEAR BASRA, Iraq (AP) - British and U.S. aircraft pounded a convoy of Iraqi tanks and armored vehicles that was streaming out of the besieged southern city of Basra late Wednesday, British military sources said. The sources estimated the column at about 120 vehicles, heading southeast along the main road toward Abadan. They said it appeared the Iraqis were using the sandstorm that had blanketed the region to try to sneak out. Basra had been largely quiet for much of the day Wednesday, with...

<p>The U.S. soldiers of the mind who have deployed over Iraq an arsenal of psychological weapons yesterday saw dividends from their efforts as the "shock and awe" bomb and missile attack described in leaflets, broadcasts and e-mails was launched.</p> <p>Iraqi soldiers surrendering to advancing ground forces waved some of the 17 million leaflets rained onto Iraq in 42 separate drops, most recently Tuesday morning when 360,000 pieces fell on two southeast Iraqi cities.</p>

Leaflets Drop, Iraqi Soldiers SurrenderNewsMax WiresThursday, March 20, 2003The world seemed to be holding its breath Wednesday as President Bush's deadline for Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to leave his country or face war passed, amid last-minute preparations by U.S. forces and the first surrenders of Iraqi troops -- but no immediate assault. U.S. and British aircraft earlier Wednesday pounded targets in Iraq's southern no-fly zone and dropped leaflets telling Iraqi soldiers how to surrender, a U.S. Air Force spokeswoman based at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia told United Press International. She said the targets of the strikes were communication,...

Now we return to finish the job. "This elaborately illustrated Gulf War PSYOP leaflet portrays a giant wave as a knife-wielding, war-ready, US Marine. Twelve thousand copies of the leaflet were placed in sealed bottles and dumped off the Kuwait coastline by a smuggler from the United Arab Emirates. Copies of this leaflet were also disseminated by F-16 air dropped leaflet bombs. This deception launched just days before the ground war played the Iraqi fear of an amphibious attack by the United States. As a result, this leaflet is credited with convincing the Iraqis to reorient their defenses in...

As Washington readies its forces for war in Iraq, a quiet military effort is already under way that is aimed at persuading Iraq's senior military officials to refrain from fighting U.S. and British soldiers. As RFE/RL reports, a quick and "clean" conflict may hinge on the success of the United States' psychological-warfare campaign. Washington, 19 March 2003 (RFE/RL) -- Is the pen mightier than the sword? U.S. war planners hope so. Hundreds of thousands of U.S. and British troops and thousands of tanks, jet fighters, bombs, and missiles may be set to strike Iraq in hours in a bid to...

Open acts of defiance by opponents of Saddam Hussein's regime have intensified in the past week, with saboteurs carrying out attacks against Iraq's railway system and protesters openly calling for the overthrow of the Iraqi dictator. The most blatant act of sabotage took place 20 miles south of the north Iraqi city of Mosul when members of the Iraqi opposition blew up a stretch of track on the Mosul-Baghdad railway, causing the derailment of a train. Before fleeing back to their base in Kurdistan, they left piles of leaflets by the side of the track urging the Iraqi soldiers who...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 03/16/03 -USS T.Roosevelt, USS Kitty Hawk, B-2, GR7, A10, AV-8B, leaflets BREAKING: US SEEKS PEACE ---- BUT IS READY - GOOD MORNING BAGHDAD!!!!!!!!!!!!! BREAKING: USS Theodore Roosevelt, USS Kitty Hawk BREAKING: B-2, 'Spirit of Oklahoma', 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, BREAKING: Harrier GR7, A10, Harrier AV-8B, Living Support Area 7, 633 Squadron Royal Air Force BREAKING: Nutcakes in Saddam City BREAKING: Leaflets dropped BREAKING: B-1 JDAMs in measured response ========= USS Kitty Hawk ========= Somewhere near Iraq, heroes on the USS Kitty Hawk prepare. ========= USS Theodore Roosevelt =========...

Anti-Hussein messages, secret missions part of psychological warfareBy Richard Whittle, The Dallas Morning NewsWASHINGTON - The message in Arabic crackles over the radio waves above Iraq, beamed down by a U.S. Air Force EC-130 "Commando Solo" aircraft: "Soldiers of Iraq. Since the beginning of time, there has been no profession more honorable than that of a soldier. ... Saddam has tarnished this legacy. ... Do not let Saddam tarnish the reputation of soldiers any longer. ... Make the decision." No bombs have fallen on Baghdad yet, but U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf are busily "preparing the battlefield," as military...

As the search for Osama bin Laden continues in a rugged mountain region along the Afghani/Pakistani border, the area is being flooded with leaflets offering a reward for his capture. Dropped from helicopters, the leaflets remind anyone who picks them up of a $25 million reward for information leading to the al-Qaida leader's arrest. The leaflets are part of an intensified search for the terrorist chief conducted by U.S. and Pakistani forces in Pakistan's southwest Baluchistan province and further north, in the Chitral region of the North West Frontier province. Reports from the region were contradictory Friday. U.S. and Pakistani...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- At 10 million leaflets and counting, the United States is stepping up its message to Iraqi troops: don't mine waterways or dump oil into them, don't use weapons of mass destruction, do desert your station so you'll live to see your children grow up. Allied planes on Thursday dropped 660,000 leaflets, with a half-dozen different messages, over 11 sites in southern Iraq. It was the latest paper downpour aimed at softening the battlefield for possible war against President Saddam Hussein's government."Saddam has poisoned your waterways before," said a message delivered for the first time Thursday. "You must...

CHAMAN: Pamphlets offering rewards for the capture of Osama bin Laden's deputy Ayman al-Zawahri, the al-Qaeda terror network's number-two, were air-dropped on Tuesday along the southern Afghan-Pakistani border. Pamphlets carrying the photo of Ayman al-Zawahri under the caption 'Wanted' and alongside images of US dollar bills fell from planes over the Afghan town of Spin Boldak, just across the border from Chaman. Written in Arabic and the local Pashtu language, the pamphlets offered rewards for information leading to al-Zawahiri's arrest. Witnesses said the pamphlets were dropped from US planes, although there was no independent confirmation available. Al-Zawahri, an Egyptian, is...

Online gallery of the leaflets dropped on Iraq by US forces during the past few months. Link Here's an example:

ANKARA, Turkey - The U.S. military for the first time dumped some 240,000 leaflets over northern Iraq on Saturday, warning anti-aircraft gunners not to fire on coalition aircraft. The airdrop brings to the north a propaganda campaign that the U.S. military has been waging for months in southern Iraq ahead of a possible war. Since late last year, U.S. aircraft have dropped millions of leaflets over southern Iraq with various messages to soldiers and civilians. The leaflets were dropped Saturday near Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery batteries about 10 miles north of the city of Mosul, the U.S. European Command said in...