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Strategic miscommunications Lessons not learned from the war on Terrorism

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Strategic miscommunications Lessons not learned from the war on Terrorism

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    1. Strategic (mis)communications Lessons (not) learned from the ‘war’ on Terrorism Prof. Philip M Taylor Institute of Communications Studies University of Leeds.

    2. Declaring ‘war’ on terror Understandable after 9/11 but ‘war’ provides a misleading label – who are the enemy? Where are they? How do you negotiate ‘peace’ with them? A ‘war’ for the US people, but not for Europe – and now a jihad for their enemies Hurricane Katrina as ‘God’s revenge against the city of homosexuals’ ‘The long struggle’ re-branding

    8. Al Qaeda Propaganda Al Qaeda’s central leadership structure has a dedicated media and communications committee tasked with issuing reports and statements in support of its operations, including a dedicated studio, known as the Al Sahab Institute for Media Productions. They have shown great skill in terms of timing but are helped greatly by the west’s ‘own goals’.

    12. Bin Laden, 27 December 2004 Bin Laden identified the insurgency in Iraq as “a golden and unique opportunity” for jihadists to engage and defeat the United States, and he characterized the insurgency in Iraq as the central battle in a “Third World War, which the Crusader-Zionist coalition began against the Islamic nation.” Describing Baghdad as “the capital of the caliphate,” Bin Laden asserted that “jihad in Palestine and Iraq today is a duty for the people of the two countries” and other Muslims.

    14. Success? The Muslim world has not (yet) risen up in support of Al Qaeda’s strategic goals ..but Rising levels of anti-Americanism (and not just in the Arab and Muslim world) are helping them. Is this due to their success or the west’s failure to ‘win hearts and minds’?

    15. The west’s propaganda ‘own goals’ ‘Crusade’ and Operation Infinite Justice Saddam and WMD, Iraq & 9/11 – undermines credibility of US voices… …especially as those voices in charge of US messages (Charlotte Beers, Condi Rice, Karen Hughes) are all female! Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay

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