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Title: Think tank: 92% of Afghans never heard of 9/11
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Global Research
URL Source: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22027
Published: Nov 21, 2010
Author: Daniel Tencer
Post Date: 2010-11-22 15:41:34 by Red Jones
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Comments: 4
Think tank: 92% of Afghans never heard of 9/11 By Daniel Tencer Global Research, November 21, 2010 rawstory.com - 2010-11-19 Fewer than one in 10 Afghans are aware of the 9/11 attacks and their precipitation of the war in Afghanistan, says a study from an international think tank. A report (PDF) from the International Council on Security and Development (ICOS) shows that 92 percent of those surveyed had never heard of the coordinated multiple attacks on US soil on September 11, 2001. It also shows that four in 10 Afghans believe the US is on their soil in order to "destroy Islam or occupy Afghanistan." To be sure, the survey can't claim to be definitive: It only canvassed men, and relied primarily on respondents from Helmand and Kandahar, the two most war-torn provinces in the country. But the results nonetheless show that Western forces fighting insurgents in Afghanistan have largely failed to connect with the local population. “We need to explain to the Afghan people why we are here, and both show and convince them that their future is better with us than with the Taliban,” ICOS lead field researcher Norine MacDonald said in a statement. The survey also suggests that Afghans are skeptical of their own government's ability to protect them, and have little regard for the fledgling democratic institutions the country is building. Fully 43 percent could not name one positive aspect of democracy, and nearly two-thirds -- 61 percent -- said they didn't think Afghan forces would be able to keep up the fight against the Taliban if and when Western forces withdrew. The ICOS study recommends a publicity campaign to explain to Afghans why foreign forces are fighting on their soil. The think tank also proposes a number of other initiatives meant to improve the image of foreign forces in the country, including having NATO forces deliver humanitarian aid where aid groups fear to travel, providing farmland to the poor, setting up women's councils, and "safe village convoys" which would see foreign troops escort villagers in dangerous rural areas. ICOS has a permanent presence in Afghanistan and has been studying the nearly decade-long war's impact on Afghan society. The think tank has previously proposed that Afghanistan license the growing of opium. The group argues that eliminating the opiate trade from Afghanistan is virtually impossible due to its entrenched place in the culture. At the same time, Afghan farmers could earn money by selling opiates to painkiller manufacturers. Opponents of the idea say that Afghanistan is not stable enough to develop a proper opium-manufacturing industry, and a licensing scheme would only encourage the sale of opium to heroin manufacturers.
Poster Comment: so there is an NGO that will do a propaganda campaign to make the afghans aware as to why we're making war on them. they don't even know. but our government considers them guilty and I have news for your our military is over there administering death sentences over this.
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#1. To: Red Jones (#0)
How could Afghans know why foreign forces are fighting on their soil when the foreign forces don't even know?
Waiting too late to oppose tyranny has always led to bloodshed.
Hair Salon Salisbury, CT
#2. To: Critter (#1)
I think it is interesting that an NGO does a poll to find out they don't know why the international community is attacking them, and then this same NGO says they'll fix the problem with a public relations campaign. This NGO is soaking up taxpayer money along with maybe 100 or more other NGOs in Kabul. and they think its their job to convince the afghans that we have a reason to kill them. they're drunk with power. If you think about the American rationale for waging war in afghanistan it is as follows: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made a powerful assertion on national tv on the day of september 11'th, 2001 that Osama Bin Laden did the attack. The FBI issued a written statement saying that they have no evidence that Osama Bin Laden was involved. Doesn't matter. Donald Rumsfeld said on national tv that Osama Bin Laden is guilty. and so he is guilty. Donald Rumsfeld is the same fellow who in the 1980's prominently stated that we should support Saddam Hussein with money. We gave Saddam $40 billion worth of weapons, grain & aid in the 1980's. and Rumsfeld was the public figure asserting before congress and elsewhere that we should do that. I would presume that Rumsfeld was wrong in the 1980's in saying that we should support Hussein. Doesn't matter. He's presented on tv and therefore he is right. What if we had a criminal like Osama Bin Laden living in our country who orchestrated an attack somewhere. Would that justify an attack by the victim nation on us Americans? We came there in 2001 very shortly after the Sept 11'th attacks. Almost 10 years. and we say we'll stay another several years. We overthrew their government and installed a puppet.
Psalms 137:1 By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
#3. To: Red Jones (#0)
We are freeing them from the rights to their land, they all know that much.
God is always good!
#4. To: Red Jones (#2)
That's what we do best.
We overthrew their government and installed a puppet.
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