You are invited to join the Joint Forces and enjoy full Arab hospitality, security, safety and medical care. You will be returned to your homes as soon as the situation saddam has placed us in has ended. My brother Iraqi soldier...this invitation is open to you and your comrade soldiers. We hope that you will accept this invitation as soon as you have the opportunity.
Front Translation: If you want to save yourself comply with the following:
Remove the magazine from your weapon
Carrt the weapon upon your left shoulder, pointing the muzzle downward.
To asurre us of your sincere desire to save yourself, please place both hands above your head.
When approaching our location, do so slowly, any person ahead of the group raises this leaflet above his head.
This will affirm your desire for safety. Hello and Welcome.
Rear Translation: SAFE CONDUCT PASS
The bearer of this card is permitted to cross to the Joint Forces and receive good treatment, so that he reaches the nearest Joint Forces headquarters in complete safety. This invitation is open to all brother Iraqi soldiers to join the Joint Forces where he will be welcomed and treated according to the Geneva Convention.
Col. Rick Armstrong, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division's 312th Military Intelligence Battalion during the Gulf War, agreed the leaflet campaign was very effective.http://www.psywarrior.com/gulfwar.html
For Iraqi soldiers predisposed to lay down their arms, the leaflets told them how to approach U.S. troops and assured them of fair and humane treatment, which they believed to be true, he said.
"My interrogators processed close to 1,800 line-crossers from mid-January through the end of February. A large number (of those surrendering) were carrying the leaflets . . . On the eve of the ground campaign, we had whole units crossing the border," Armstrong said. His unit was on the Saudi-Iraqi border north of Hafar Albatin.