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A number of stories circulated on 2^nd October 2016 indicating that a new investigation took place that at least half billion U.S dollars paid by the Pentagon to a British public relations firm. This amount was used to construct and assemble terrorist propaganda. Most of the stories linked a source of a British Non-Profit news organization “The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ). On 2^nd October 2016 a report was published about an investigation on a “Top Secret” propaganda program in Iraq during the U.S war in Iraq and the amount spent by the Pentagon was estimated at more than 540 U.S dollars. This propaganda includes videos assembled and fabricated by Bell Pottinger (London-based public relations firm).

Those fabricated items included “public service announcement, billboards, television news programs, handbills and newspaper articles in order to strengthen the U.S military objective in Iraq. Most of the amount was used in the efforts to enhance the penetration in new Iraqi institutions and for the motivation of non-interference with military operations of Coalition forces, and to encourage the deployment of the Iraqi Security Forces. An official informed that those items contained original information, but the supposed claiming effort mentioned in the report of TBIJ was regarding the fake propaganda and it was not by the Information Operation Task Force. The report identify that the amount of 120 million per year awarded to the firm between 2007 and 2011 for “Information Operations & Psychological Operations” and the total amount of 540 million was awarded to the firm.