Source:
O'Dwyer's PR Daily (sub. req'd.), July 5, 2005
"The Kurdistan Regional Government has hired Republican lobby firm
Russo Marsh & Rogers to get 'free media' to promote the interests of the Kurds in the post-
Saddam Hussein Iraq," reports
O'Dwyer's. One goal of the Kurdish leaders is "the return of Kirkuk," an oil-rich northern Iraqi city populated by Kurdish and Turkmen people.
O'Dwyer's notes that the head of RM&R,
Sal Russo, is no stranger to international politics, having "worked on the campaign of
Violetta Chamorro in Nicaragua." The Kurdish contract was announced as
Move America Forward, a group
RM&R helped found and whose "chief strategist" is Russo, is going to Iraq. Move America Forward's "
Truth Tour" is bringing conservative talk radio hosts to Iraq, to "report the good news on
Operation Iraqi Freedom you're not hearing from the old line news media."
