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
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
- Date
- 2001
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- US armed forces psychological operations, Afghanistan (coalition leaflet series, 2001-2002); Commons credits the CIA, the leaflet issuer is not named on the item
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Leaflet
- Issuer type
- Military
- Regime
- George W. Bush Administration
- Leader
- George W. Bush
- Audience
- Enemy civilians
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Economy and finance
- Event
- War in Afghanistan
- Leader
- George W. Bush
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (US government leaflet, via psywarrior.com), retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (US government work, 17 U.S.C. 105; Commons PD US Government tag)
US government psychological operations leaflet AFD12b, Afghanistan, 2001-2002. Via Wikimedia Commons (credited there to the CIA) from psywarrior.com.
