{"id":197439,"date":"2021-09-07T12:24:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T16:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/z3news.com\/w\/?p=197439"},"modified":"2021-09-10T14:17:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T18:17:55","slug":"how-the-us-trained-the-afghan-mujahideen-to-produce-war-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/z3news.com\/w\/how-the-us-trained-the-afghan-mujahideen-to-produce-war-propaganda\/","title":{"rendered":"How the US Trained the Afghan Mujahideen To Produce War Propaganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/EEK1_Th9dIY?controls=0\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By now, everyone knows about the White Helmets \u2013 the State Department\u2019s propaganda operation to manufacture consent for the U.S.\u2019s dirty war on Syria. But long before the White Helmets were the Afghan mujahideen.<\/p>\n<p>Quick review: The White Helmets were presented as laudable rescue teams who operated in opposition-held territory in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>They also embedded with jihadist groups like al Nusra \u2013\u00a0al Qaeda\u2019s branch in Syria. And were financed by U.S. government bodies like USAID.<\/p>\n<p>This turned Syria into a made-for-TV warzone, pumping decontextualized war porn into American minds through cable news and Netflix \u201cdocumentaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This propaganda appealed to the conscience of Western liberals to get them to support U.S. military attacks on Syria such as Donald Trump\u2019s bombing of Douma or Khan Sheikoun. Or, during the Obama era, the Pentagon and CIA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/middleeast\/la-fg-cia-pentagon-isis-20160327-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">arming competing militias<\/a> and warlords who were consumed by jihadist groups committed to exterminating minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Syria was version 2.0. The original was in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Back then, the U.S. was seeking to overthrow Afghanistan\u2019s socialist government that had come to power in the Saur Revolution. It is well known that the U.S. began funding the mujahideen, Islamic fundamentalist holy warriors who were united with the U.S. in their belief that godless communism was the ultimate evil. Of course, we all know how that alliance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sBciZFE8lAw&amp;t=159s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">turned out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But at the time, the U.S. public wasn\u2019t interested in Afghanistan \u2013 a country seven thousand miles away that everyday Americans couldn\u2019t find on a map \u2013 and news barely covered it.<\/p>\n<p>In 1982, the U.S. government sent Hollywood star Kirk Douglas to Peshawar, Pakistan to film a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DgLrKHXAOIo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thanksgiving special<\/a> in which he met with mujahideen leaders and showed the horrors of the Soviet intervention and the plight of Afghan refugees.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/DgLrKHXAOIo?controls=0\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But after that effort flopped, the now-defunct U.S. propaganda arm known as the U.S. Information Agency, or USIA, tried its hand. USIA Director Alvin Synder came up with the idea of training mujahideen in \u201cjournalism\u201d and providing them with video cameras. The articles and <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/afghanmediaresourcecenter?tab=collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">footage<\/a> they provided would bolster the U.S. government\u2019s narrative of the Soviet intervention as an invasion of a godless evil empire and the Afghan holy warriors as freedom fighters that America had to support.<\/p>\n<p>Congress passed legislation to train the mujahideen and allocated half a million dollars to set up a journalism school for them. This was done in conjunction with Boston University. The Afghan Media Resource Center was born. Its policy manual specified that every employee must be obedient to the Islamic faith and \u201cmust honestly and generously sacrifice for holy jihad and take an active share in Afghanistan\u2019s independence struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trainees were sent to the Afghan battlefield, where they captured the realities of war: dead soldiers on both sides, unspeakable tragedies. Cable news outlets like <i>CBS <\/i>and <i>CNN <\/i>began to air the footage, and U.S. officials credited their efforts for the eventual Soviet withdrawal.<\/p>\n<p>With a gun in one hand and a camera in the other, the mujahideen propagandists interviewed warlords like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of a guerrilla group known as The Islamic Party and CIA favorite, to whom Washington <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/2019\/01\/07\/history-trump-cia-was-arming-afghan-rebels-before-soviets-invaded\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">funneled<\/a> more than a billion dollars to as he became the biggest drug lord in Afghanistan. Hekmatyar had a reputation for spraying acid in the faces of women who dared be in public without covering their heads. His indiscriminate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/05\/12\/world\/asia\/afghanistan-gulbuddin-hekmatyar.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">shelling<\/a> of Kabul during the war against the Soviet-backed government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/parallels\/2017\/05\/04\/526866525\/the-butcher-of-kabul-is-welcomed-back-in-kabul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">killed<\/a> 50,000 and earned him the nickname the \u201cButcher of Kabul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/2001-2009.state.gov\/r\/pa\/prs\/ps\/2003\/17799.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">designated<\/a> Hekmatyar a global terrorist as his forces waged a fierce insurgency against the U.S. occupation.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/amrc_198904_cna_00523_025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Haji Zaman<\/a>, a mujahideen commander and drug lord whom, decades later, the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/23\/world\/asia\/23taliban.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">accused<\/a> of helping Osama Bin Laden escape from Tora Bora.<\/p>\n<p>Then U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Peter Tomson <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/amrc_f14_f_198907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">described<\/a> mujahideen leader Mullah Mulang in glowing terms, saying \u201cHe is a very patriotic Afghan; he has contributed a lot to the jihad; he said he is looking forward to contributing more in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/amrc_199102_cna_01425_19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">photo<\/a> of Jalaluddin Haqqani. A CIA asset during the anti-Soviet jihad, he founded the Haqqani network, which would become one of the U.S.\u2019s fiercest enemies in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Decades later, this propaganda formula would be applied to Syria, but in a much more sophisticated way. The U.S. and EU funded media trainers and provided cameras for propagandists to embed with anti-government armed groups including the Syrian al Qaeda branch, al Nusra. In Afghanistan, there was the Afghan Media Resource Center.<\/p>\n<p>In Syria, there were numerous media branches. The Aleppo Media Center \u2013\u00a0funded by the Washington-based Syrian Expatriates Organization, which famously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pri.org\/stories\/2016-08-19\/photographer-who-took-omrans-picture-aleppo-i-hope-all-photos-children-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted<\/a> videos of Omran Daqneesh \u2013 the four-year-old boy who, against his father\u2019s wishes, became a central part of the war propaganda effort. The person who took the infamous photo of Daqneesh \u2013 who became known in U.S. media as \u201cAleppo boy\u201d \u2013 was Mahmoud Raslan.<\/p>\n<p>Raslan was also a member of a U.S.-funded armed group, Nour al-Din al-Zenki, that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/global\/2016\/08\/19\/the-man-behind-the-viral-boy-in-the-ambulance-image-has-brutal-skeletons-in-his-own-closet-images\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">beheaded<\/a> 10-year-old Palestinian boy Abdallah Issa.<\/p>\n<p>There was <a href=\"https:\/\/syriadirect.org\/training\/%20http:\/\/syriadirect.org\/news\/%E2%80%98i-wanted-to-show-the-truth%E2%80%99-syria-direct-trainees-reflect-as-10th-cohort-of-journalists-graduates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Syria Direct<\/a> \u2013 funded by the State Department, as well as French and Australian embassies. Syria Direct trained numerous journalists whose articles were furnished to U.S. media outlets like <i>USA Today, CNN<\/i>, and <i>Radio Free Europe<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Propaganda has been a key component of every war the U.S. has waged from Vietnam to Grenada to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria. These efforts become more sophisticated and insidious over time. Without them, the U.S. permanent war state simply couldn\u2019t operate.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Originally published by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/afghan-media-resource-center-us-trained-afghan-mujahideen-war-propaganda\/278396\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mintpressnews.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, everyone knows about the White Helmets \u2013 the State Department\u2019s propaganda operation to manufacture consent for the U.S.\u2019s dirty war on Syria. But long before the White Helmets were the Afghan mujahideen. Quick review: The White Helmets were presented as laudable rescue teams who operated in opposition-held territory in Syria. 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