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

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 wer...