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IRAQ: EXILES LEARN PR TECHNIQUES. A.(group of exiles get course of media training)(Brief Article)

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, September, 2002

group of Iraqi exiles living in North America and Europe started a four-day course of media training at the U.S. State Department in Washington this week. The 17-strong group will be taught how to write opinion pieces, give speeches, and do television and radio interviews, CNN reported on 26 August.

The intention, the station reported, is to help "make the case that the battle is not between the U.S. and Iraq, and to convey that the Iraqi people and Iraq's neighbors will be better off without Saddam." The funding for the media-training workshop came out of funds for the Future of Iraq project, a State Department spokesman said. It is not subject to the restrictions of the Smith-Mundt Act of 1948, the spokesman made clear in a transcript of the briefing. The...

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