] "Word got around the department that I was a good Arabic
] translator who did a great Saddam imitation," recalls the
] Harvard grad student. "Eventually, someone phoned me
] asking if I wanted to help change the course of Iraq
] policy." So twice a week, for $3000 a month, the Iraqi
] student tells the Voice on condition of anonymity, he
] took a taxi from his campus apartment to a Boston-area
] recording studio rented by the Rendon Group, a D.C.-based
] public relations firm with close ties to the U.S.
] government. His job: Translate and dub spoofed Saddam
] Hussein speeches and tongue-in-cheek newscasts for
] broadcast throughout Iraq.

Another article about the antics of the PR agencies Rendon Group and Hill & Knowlton.

The Village Voice: Broadcast Ruse