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
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
- Date
- January 2002
- 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, Theme, 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 forces
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- 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 TF11-RP03, Afghanistan, 2001-2002. Via Wikimedia Commons (credited there to the CIA) from psywarrior.com.
