
Afghanistan: The other information war GNN \|\| December 18, 2005 Seven months after the “Rendon Group was hired to help Afghan President Hamid Karzai with media relations in early 2004,” both Karzai and then-U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad were “ready to get rid of Rendon.” They complained that the secretive PR firm was being paid too much – $1.4 million – for “not enough work.” Yet Rendon won a second U.S.-funded contract worth $3.9 million, to “create a media team for Afghan anti-drug programs.” The goal was “to train five Afghan press officers … but it trained only three, and one has left her job.” U.S. Embassy officials estimated that the work done “could have been performed for about $200,000.” That contract expired in October, but Rendon is reportedly under consideration for a new multimillion-dollar, “three-year deal to work on counternarcotics public relations” in Afghanistan. Rendon’s supporters say the firm “did an excellent job in a tough circumstance.” Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
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Afghanistan: The other information war

GNN || December 18, 2005

Seven months after the “Rendon Group was hired to help Afghan President Hamid Karzai with media relations in early 2004,” both Karzai and then-U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad were “ready to get rid of Rendon.” They complained that the secretive PR firm was being paid too much – $1.4 million – for “not enough work.” Yet Rendon won a second U.S.-funded contract worth $3.9 million, to “create a media team for Afghan anti-drug programs.” The goal was “to train five Afghan press officers … but it trained only three, and one has left her job.” U.S. Embassy officials estimated that the work done “could have been performed for about $200,000.” That contract expired in October, but Rendon is reportedly under consideration for a new multimillion-dollar, “three-year deal to work on counternarcotics public relations” in Afghanistan. Rendon’s supporters say the firm “did an excellent job in a tough circumstance.”

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