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title: 'Coalition leaflet: US aid to Afghanistan against ''This is what the Taliban has done'' (Afghanistan, 2001)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/afghanistan-us-leaflet-america-aid-versus-taliban-2001/
description: 'Front: smiling children and a man carrying a sack marked ''USA'' beside the line ''America has provided over $170 million in aid to Afghanistan.'' Back.'
section: Collection
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**Content note:** Coalition leaflet whose back shows war destruction, a wounded or dead man and an armed man over a kneeling woman, shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Coalition leaflet: US aid to Afghanistan against 'This, 2001 US leaflet: Front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/afghanistan-us-leaflet-america-aid-versus-taliban-2001.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/afghanistan-us-leaflet-america-aid-versus-taliban-2001.jpg)

# Coalition leaflet: US aid to Afghanistan against 'This is what the Taliban has done' (Afghanistan, 2001)

Front: smiling children and a man carrying a sack marked 'USA' beside the line 'America has provided over $170 million in aid to Afghanistan.' Back: a ruined building, a man on a stretcher and a woman in a burqa facing a gunman, beside 'This is what the Taliban has done!' The tell is two hand-picked image sets, aid on one face and destruction on the other, with no dates, places or denominators.

## Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet

[Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights

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