92% of Afghans never heard of 9/11

[KimmyCharmeleon]

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.

http://world911truth.org/study-shows-92-of-afghans-never-heard-of-9-11/



What do you think of it (the study and/or article)?

 

[Zorak]

Kind of hard to win hearts and minds then lol.

When I speak to the chinese people at uni, the first thing I ask them is if they have heard of the tiananmen square massacre... They never have. Some of them have been here years bear in mind.
My point is, something doesn't have to be hidden for it it to be forgotten.

 

[mazHur]

It were the Saudi's who plotted 9/11...
The Afghans and Pakistanians are culprits of allowing them hide in their lands,...they look so similar...it is quite impossible to differentiate between a Talib and an ordinary Afghan or Pakistani from the Frontier region!!

True, no chance of Afghan forces to hold on against the Talibs..mainly because it is also backed by Pakistan!!

Heroin is staple crop of Afghanistan. They have no other industry or work to do but to make money through cultivation of poppy...
Like a hungry man the Afghans too have no manners......and there is no reason for a hungry man to have them!!

 

[edgray]

Is it any wonder? why should they have heard of it? they had nothing to do with it. neither did the invasion, it was planned BEFORE 9/11, and it's clear it was for one purpose and one purpose only, to secure the US and UKs poppy fields which the Taliban were destroying.

 

[MoonOwl]

Perhaps the Taliban should have said yes to the proposed pipeline that we wanted to run back in August of 2001?

 

[mazHur]

Perhaps the Taliban should have said yes to the proposed pipeline that we wanted to run back in August of 2001?

so you mean to say because they didn't agree to that you had to made them agree??

 

[MoonOwl]

You'd have to ask Dick Cheney & Donald Rumsfeld to know for sure.

 

[mazHur]

You'd have to ask Dick Cheney & Donald Rumsfeld to know for sure.

Which one of them was charge with murder???

 

[MoonOwl]

Which one of them was charge with murder???

Well, the exact locations escape me right now, but there are indeed certain places overseas (and Canada I think?) that Bush, Cheney & Rummy cannot enter w/out being arrested for war crimes.

I'm sure Dubya will not have those places on his book tour.

If you're meaning here in the US, you're kidding right? Nothing will happen to the TeflonAdministration here any time soon.

 

[Guyzerr]

Well, the exact locations escape me right now, but there are indeed certain places overseas (and Canada I think?) that Bush, Cheney & Rummy cannot enter w/out being arrested for war crimes.

I'm sure Dubya will not have those places on his book tour.

If you're meaning here in the US, you're kidding right? Nothing will happen to the TeflonAdministration here any time soon.

Bush isn't on Canada's hit list even though he should be. I believe he came here within the last 6 months and gave a paid talk to some group. The exact details escape me but you've perked my interest and will try and find out.

 

[Guyzerr]

Amazing how time flies MoonOwl. It seems like yesterday that that sob visited here but...

" George Bush will visit Calgary on March 17, to speak to 1500 invited guests at a “private function” put on by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, a huge international law firm and a company called tinePublic. "

 

[MoonOwl]

Bush isn't on Canada's hit list even though he should be. I believe he came here within the last 6 months and gave a paid talk to some group. The exact details escape me but you've perked my interest and will try and find out.

I could very well be wrong, but I thought I'd read about a town somewhere up there none too pleased. But it was indeed years ago now and I could be confused.

I've read some much stuff over the last decade it blurs together at times.:willy_nilly:

 

[Guyzerr]

I could very well be wrong, but I thought I'd read about a town somewhere up there none too pleased. But it was indeed years ago now and I could be confused.

I've read some much stuff over the last decade it blurs together at times.:willy_nilly:

It's more than one town that's a Bush(s) hater. Pretty much the whole country does except those involved in the oil industry.

 

[MoonOwl]

Amazing how time flies MoonOwl. It seems like yesterday that that sob visited here but...

" George Bush will visit Calgary on March 17, to speak to 1500 invited guests at a “private function” put on by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, a huge international law firm and a company called tinePublic. "

It does indeed fly by........ He was here last week pushing his book. How nice for him.

I'd still like to know why the Secret Service allowed him to sit in a classroom, four miles from an airport - a location that had been majorly publicized for weeks prior - on September 11th.

Dick Cheney had mentioned he was picked up by his arm pits, feet barely touching the floor, while wisked away underground. George is left to sit w/a school full of children. The official blurb was he didn't want to alarm the kids. I guess a simple "Sorry kids, gotta go do President stuff now" didn't occur to them?

How did they know that morning that George wasn't a target? At that point, they've said they didn't know how many planes had been hijacked. How did they know for sure that that school was safe? That's always bugged me. Well, a lot of things about that tragic day bug me. But letting him sit there just doesn't make sense to me. Tho, I am a PeaBrain so perhaps their logic escapes me.

 

[Guyzerr]

It does indeed fly by........ He was here last week pushing his book. How nice for him.

I'd still like to know why the Secret Service allowed him to sit in a classroom, four miles from an airport - a location that had been majorly publicized for weeks prior - on September 11th.

Dick Cheney had mentioned he was picked up by his arm pits, feet barely touching the floor, while wisked away underground. George is left to sit w/a school full of children. The official blurb was he didn't want to alarm the kids. I guess a simple "Sorry kids, gotta go do President stuff now" didn't occur to them?

How did they know that morning that George wasn't a target? At that point, they've said they didn't know how many planes had been hijacked. How did they know for sure that that school was safe? That's always bugged me. Well, a lot of things about that tragic day bug me. But letting him sit there just doesn't make sense to me. Tho, I am a PeaBrain so perhaps their logic escapes me.

There's just too many questions the world needs answered and even though we deserve the truth it will never happen. There's too many crooked dishonest people in your country.... well.... in all countries I suppose.

 

[Accountable]

Afghans lie like rugs.





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.......................I'll get me coat.

 

[mazHur]

Afghans lie like rugs.







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.......................I'll get me coat.

as if nobody else lies like carpets!!

 

[dkwrtw]

That article and study are full of shit, there is NO WAY that 92% of Afghans have not heard of 9/11, those "9/11 Truth" sites will say absolutely anything to support their ridiculous theories.

 

[mazHur]

That article and study are full of shit, there is NO WAY that 92% of Afghans have not heard of 9/11, those "9/11 Truth" sites will say absolutely anything to support their ridiculous theories.

I don't think Afghans were so update on 9/11....but why would they be interested if they hadn't done it??
It were the Saudi cult....Afghanistan is mainly responsible for 'alleged' sheltering of terrorists...nothing more!!

 

[dkwrtw]

I don't think Afghans were so update on 9/11....but why would they be interested if they hadn't done it??
It were the Saudi cult....Afghanistan is mainly responsible for 'alleged' sheltering of terrorists...nothing more!!

I don't believe that 92% of ANY country have never heard of an event as major as 9/11, when something like that happens in the most powerful country on the planet, the entire world takes notice.