"The Kurdistan Regional Government has hired Republican lobby firm Russo Marsh & Rogers [1] to get 'free media' to promote the interests of the Kurds in the post-Saddam Hussein [2] 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 [3], is no stranger to international politics, having "worked on the campaign of Violetta Chamorro [4] in Nicaragua." The Kurdish contract was announced as Move America Forward [5], a group RM&R helped found [6] and whose "chief strategist" is Russo, is going to Iraq. Move America Forward's "Truth Tour [7]" is bringing conservative talk radio hosts to Iraq, to "report the good news on Operation Iraqi Freedom [8] you're not hearing from the old line news media."