Coalition leaflet: 'Taliban, we know where you are' (Afghanistan, 2001)
Two cartoon panels in Dari and Pashto: a parachuted supply canister over a desert, and a gun truck at the foot of a ridge; caption 'Taliban: we know where you are!' The back shows fighters walking away from a burning crater, with 'Give up fighting for the Taliban and live!' The tell is the threat of observed, targetable position paired with a single exit.
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 forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- 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 AFD62, Afghanistan, 2001-2002. Via Wikimedia Commons (credited there to the CIA) from psywarrior.com.
