Psychological operations

  • 2008-03-26
  • By Frederic Labarre
What to make of the decision by Danish newspapers to re-publish the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in response to death threats issued against the cartoonist? Should we see them as today's Salman Rushdie, who was condemned to death in absentia by Ayatollah Khomeini after publishing the Satanic Verses? Or should we treat this as a clever ploy, a psychological operation in the fight against terror and radical Islamism? The reaction of the prime suspect, Osama bin Laden, published over the Internet recently, suggests that, if this isn't a psychological operation, it has all the effects of ...
 
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