Coalition leaflet: 'Friendship' handshake between America and Afghanistan (Afghanistan, 2001)
Two clasped hands between a US-flag map and a flag-coloured map of Afghanistan, with a smiling American family at left and an Afghan family at right; the headline is 'Friendship'. Per the file page the back says no one should tell Afghans how to live and that a 'Partnership of Nations' will rescue them from 'Taliban criminals and foreign terrorists'. The tell is warmth carried by symbols and one virtue word.
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, 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 civilians
- Purpose
- Reassure
- 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 family USA-Afghanistan handshake, Afghanistan, 2001-2002. Via Wikimedia Commons (credited there to the CIA) from psywarrior.com.
