Forensic wrote:


There's no real public pressure on the government from the public to increase media access.

"I'm not doing this so that the CNN correspondent gets another £100,000 in their salary," he said. "I'm doing it because the regime watches CNN. I want them to see what is happening."

The plan is very much part of a psychological warfare campaign, what the British officer called "white pys-ops."

"Yes, we are using them," he said. "We use everything we have."