Us Politics, Propaganda and the Afghan Mujahedeen: Domestic Politics and the Afghan War

by Jacqueline Fitzgibbon

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 with surface to air missiles and other weapons. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0755637259
• ISBN13: 9780755637256
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"