Coalition leaflet AFD-101c: 'Many tribes, but one Afghanistan' (Afghanistan, 2002)
Black-and-white leaflet with four portraits around a map of Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai, Dr Sima Samar, Sayed Hussein Onery (spelling as on the source page) and Abdullah Abdullah, each labelled with an ethnic group, under the line 'Many tribes, but one Afghanistan.' The tell is the unity slogan carried by a staged group of leaders drawn from different peoples.
Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet
- Date
- 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, 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
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Race and ethnicity
- 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 AFD-101c, Afghanistan, 2001-2002. Via Wikimedia Commons (credited there to the CIA) from psywarrior.com.
