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title: 'Coalition leaflet: ''Osama bin Laden ... has left you alone in the field'' (Afghanistan, January 2002)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/afghanistan-us-leaflet-bin-laden-left-you-alone-2002/
description: 'Front: a portrait of a man in a pale jacket beside Dari text. Back: a grey photograph of bodies on open ground with Dari and Pashto text.'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Coalition leaflet whose back reproduces a grainy photograph of dead fighters, shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Coalition leaflet: 'Osama bin Laden... has left you, 2002 US leaflet: Front](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/afghanistan-us-leaflet-bin-laden-left-you-alone-2002.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/afghanistan-us-leaflet-bin-laden-left-you-alone-2002.jpg)

# Coalition leaflet: 'Osama bin Laden ... has left you alone in the field' (Afghanistan, January 2002)

Front: a portrait of a man in a pale jacket beside Dari text. Back: a grey photograph of bodies on open ground with Dari and Pashto text. Per the file page the message is that bin Laden deserted the fighters while they were dying. The tell is the abandonment story, with the dead shown as proof, aimed at turning loyalty into resentment.

## Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet

[Appeal to emotion](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/appeal-to-emotion/)

## Full record

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

[← "Señores imperialistas, ¡no les tenemos absolutamente ningún miedo!": Havana billboard, 2002](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/senores-imperialistas-ningun-miedo-havana-billboard-2002/) [Coalition leaflet "Coalition Air Power can strike at will" (020-20D, Iraq 2003) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/iraq-2003-leaflet-air-power-strike-at-will-020-20d/)

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