(2003-01-11) -- The Cable News Network (CNN) will produce a news program specifically for Iraqis. The show will include information about U.S. troop movements and previously secret U.S. intelligence operations.

A CNN editor got the idea for the hour-long program after CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr filed a report that U.S. military and intelligence agencies are secretly emailing Iraqi leaders encouraging them to dissent or defect.

Citing an unnamed source, Starr's report included the disclosure that The U.S. military and intelligence officials were apparently hoping that the Iraqis do not realize where the e-mails are coming from.

The unnamed editor said he suddenly realized that many Iraqis might have missed that story, but if they had a show all their own they could be up-to-date with "news they can use."