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Asalaamu alikum
I remember shortly after Sept.11th when America was bombing the daylights out of Afghanistan there were a couple of christian missionaries, two young ladies who somehow had wound up in a prison somewhere in the south of the country. Maybe you will remember about it. Anyway what happened, is when that city felll from the control of the taliban into the hands of the opposing United Front, those two young ladies were set free.
Shortly afterword a press conference was held in Pakistan and was being aired live on CNN. This was maybe 1:00 in the morning. And they began the conference stating that they wont be able to answer some things because they have to be "debriefed"
That night in Pakistan those girls told a story of how the Afganis had rescued them from the prision and treated them kindly, helping them get in touch with people who can help them, and they were cheering things like 'long live Massoud' but they did not get much farther with the story and they were cut off by some kind of advisors who were nearby. This was the case with most of the questions the girls had been answering.
Anyway, the next afternoon, the same two ladies were on CNN telling a tale of how they were dramatically rescued by some brave American soldiers fighting off the barbaric taliban.
This incident was heavily used at the start of this war as a propeganda which was spun as crazy bloodthristy Muslims who want to persecute these two sweet young Christians, and thanks to the United States they are no longer in harms way. And see how this war is so nessesary?!?!
I guess it was a Nazi stratagey that if you tell a lie long enough it people will accept it as the truth.
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07-22-2007, 04:20 AM
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Sorry, I somehow double posted!
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Salamun Alaikum.
Yes SisterJennifer I vaguely remember something like that. It is very similar to the story of Yvonne Ridley and her eventual reversion to Islam after experiencing the taliban. Nevertheless the Taliban are still a despicable bunch of hooligans but it shows the desparation of the media when they have to spin stories concerning even obviously oppressive regimes like the Taliban.
The 15 soldiers saga and Iran is still fresh in our minds. The amount of media spin was absolutely amazing. The Iranians were clever though and outmaneuvered the British in the propaganda stakes. I still remember gems like "I heard sounds, I thought they were preparing my coffin" and "They saw I was a woman and were staring at me in disbelief, I was disgusted" from Faye Turney who still manage to find complaints despite being the most well-treated captured soldier in history.
