Content note: Coalition leaflet reproducing a photograph of a Taliban member beating a woman, shown as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Coalition leaflet: 'Drive out the foreign terrorists', with a Taliban beating a woman (Afghanistan, 2001)
Front, translated on the file page: 'Drive out the foreign terrorists.' Back: a photograph of a man in Taliban-era dress striking a woman in a blue burqa, beside the line 'Is this the future you want for your women and children?' The tell is one shocking photograph carrying the whole argument, with the question left to answer itself.
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, Gender and suffrage
- 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 AFD24, Afghanistan, 2001-2002. Via Wikimedia Commons (credited there to the CIA) from psywarrior.com.
