"The Kurdistan Regional Government has hired Republican lobby firm Russo Marsh & Rogers [3] to get 'free media' to promote the interests of the Kurds in the post-Saddam Hussein [4] 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 [5], is no stranger to international politics, having "worked on the campaign of Violetta Chamorro [6] in Nicaragua." The Kurdish contract was announced as Move America Forward [7], a group RM&R helped found [8] and whose "chief strategist" is Russo, is going to Iraq. Move America Forward's "Truth Tour [9]" is bringing conservative talk radio hosts to Iraq, to "report the good news on Operation Iraqi Freedom [10] you're not hearing from the old line news media."