US Politics, Propaganda and the Afghan Mujahedeen

Name: US Politics, Propaganda and the Afghan Mujahedeen
Brand: Bloomsbury 3PL
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By Jacqueline Fitzgibbon

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Influential fundraising groups and senators in the US made enormous efforts in the First Afghan War to present the Mujahedeen as 'freedom fighters' - even while the CIA secretly armed them. A mass propaganda effort was launched, aimed at portraying parts of Afghanistan as victims of communist aggression. As we know now, many of those groups that were armed became the seedbeds for organisations like Al-Qaeda. Dr Jacqueline Fitzgibbon, through a forensic investigation of the American PR of the period, argues that this militarised and fractured Afghan society for a generation - partly resulting in the mess today. She examines the American efforts to suppress any reports which showed these forces as anti-western or anti 'American values', and instead to portray the arming of partisan groups, often an extremely dangerous course of action, as an example of American values in action.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 236
Release Date:: 2021-11-18
Publication Date:: 2021-11-18
Publisher:: Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0755637259
ISBN13:: 9780755637256
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 365 g
Height:: 156 cm
Width:: 234 cm
Thickness:: 13 cm

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