Coalition leaflet "Do not stop or dig on this road" (NDIQ-006, Iraq, 2007)
Arabic leaflet from the Iraqi insurgency period, 2007. The front warns the reader not to engage in activities that put them under suspicion and not to stop or dig on the road; the back says criminals plant improvised explosive devices by the roadside, which endanger the reader's family and neighbours, and tells readers to report criminal activity to local or military police. The tell is the dual message: a safety warning and an instruction to avoid roadsides, which also frames anyone seen digging as a suspect.
Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet
- Date
- 2007
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Coalition forces in Iraq (US-led psychological operations); issuer not printed on the item as described
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
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Iraq War
- Leader
- George W. Bush
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Internet Archive (Hollen Song collection), retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (US government work, 17 U.S.C. 105); basis is the issuer, not the scan
US-led coalition psychological operations leaflet NDIQ-006, Iraq. Scan via Internet Archive, uploader nathanielsong2004.
