Coalition leaflet: 'We are watching!' with Mullah Omar in crosshairs (Afghanistan, 2001)
Three identical rows: a pair of eyes in grey close-up, a line of Pashto, and two crosshair circles, one over a licence plate and one over a bearded man's face. Per the file page the text reads 'We are watching!' The tell is the intimate surveillance image (eyes, plate, face in the sights) staged to unsettle one named leader and his followers.
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 forces
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- War and the military, Security and surveillance
- 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 We Are Watching, Afghanistan, 2001-2002. Via Wikimedia Commons (credited there to the CIA) from psywarrior.com.
