National Accord Stations Resume Against Iraq
By Nick Grace
April 16, 1998
The Iraqi National Accord, built in 1991 with covert British intelligence support and currently backed by both the USA's CIA and UK's MI-6, has resumed transmissions of its two stations on medium wave (MW).
According to Finland's Partick Willfor, the Voice of the Brave Armed Forces ("Sawt al' Quwat al Musallah") and Freedom ("al Mustaqbal") were heard in February 1998 on 1566 kHz and 1575 kHz respectively. CRW's Nick Grace C. confirmed in March that these transmissions were originating from the US military's EC-130E psychological operations broadcast planes, which were deployed to the Middle East in early February. These airborne facilities returned to the United States later that month, however.
Since the return of the EC-130E planes, Grace has also confirmed that the Accord has access to a CIA transmitter based in Kuwait. Willfor recently reported that the Voice of the Brave Armed Forces is in fact operating again on 1566 kHz between 2215 and 2300 UTC.
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