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I highly suggest reading the following article, it’ll no doubt enlighten you in regards to the CNN documentary.
**CNN’s One Hour Report : Smear Job on Taliban
Camera Tricks Used to Fabricate Atrocity Stories
August 26, 2001, 10 to 11 pm: “CNN PRESENTS”**
{To realize how the world’s biggest TV network could try to get away with
such a weak and obviously fabricated story, understand the audience whose
prejudices CNN was pandering to. Just before the show, Larry King was talking
to Darva who “married” a man on TV. Later she broke with him and posed in the
nude for playboy. Her “husband” said he didn’t mind her posing like that.
Earlier MSNBC was showing legalized prostitution in Nevada where “girls” make
$50,000 a year. After that comes a program referring to Quranic punishments
for adultery in Afghanistan! (Try to imagine how the American audience would
respond.)}
Only a journalist can understand the dirty trick CNN played in its attack on
Taliban.
1. The people who put it together:
i. Saira Shah, an Afghan woman who grew up in England and is alienated from
the Islamic way of life.
ii. Ahmed Rashid, an anti-jihad, anti-Islam Pakistani journalist who has
written consistently for years against the Islamic movement and who strives
to perpetuate the fear that the Taliban will take over Pakistan.
iii. RAWA, a communist splinter group, which after the defeat of the
Communists in Afghanistan has joined hands with the Zionist media in USA to
smear the Afghans. It has a web site which uses the “big lie” technique to
defame the Taliban. (RAWA is a minority even among Afghan Communists and has
no relevance to Afghanistan.)
2. CNN’s BASIC SCRIPT CONTRADICTED THE PROPAGANDA ATTEMPT IT MADE. Basically
what the program showed was that a woman named Saira Shah visited Afghanistan
and was taken by the Taliban to Kandahar and Kabul. She was not mistreated in
any way but she came back to help CNN make this propaganda program. CNN’s
basic script shows that Saira Shah DID NOT SEE ANY ATROCITIES OR MISTREATMENT
OF WOMEN.
2a. In fact she was treated so lightly that when she decided to “disappear”
in Kabul and go meet her RAWA contacts, no one bothered her or her
associates.
2b. Saira did not realize this bag gap in her story that if Afghanistan is
really a police state, her photographer would have been beaten to a pulp when
she did her “disappearing act”, to find out where she had gone. In fact
nothing happened to her or to her photographer. What kind of “police state”
is this in which a foreign woman can simply leave her team and go meet
whomsoever she wishes?
3. SUPERIMPOSITION OF RAWA’s PROPAGANDA VIDEO’s ON SAIRA’s STORY: The dirty
game CNN played was to to take some of RAWA’s propaganda videos (which no one
knows when and where they were taken) and superimpose them. For instance we
see Saira visiting the stadium where some convicted criminals were executed
for violations of Quranic law. At that point, RAWA’s video came in showing a
man aiming a gun at the head of a burqa-clad woman. These were two separate
items: Saira’s visit and RAWA’s video, but only an expert eye could see the
trick.
4. Use of atrocity stories from opposition refugees in Pakistan. Saira is
shown talking to a man from Hazarajat who claims an atrocity by Taliban in
which a whole group of people were slaughtered. Later in the program, we are
told Saira had met the man IN PAKISTAN. There are no graves, no bodies. We
have only this man’s translated word. The man’s name is not given. (Later we
see superimposition of a RAWA video which shows bodies in a pit. Only careful
viewing shows that those are NOT the bodies related to Hazarajat or to the
man’s story.)
5. SAIRA THEN VISITS NORTHEASTERN AFGHANISTAN and melds happily with the
opposition which is being armed by India, Iran and Russia. Here a man
gesticulates and shows her where 9 civilians were murdered by the Taliban.
The gap in the story is that Muslims always rapidly bury their dead. There is
no sign of graves in the whole area shown. Again we have to take an
opposition fighter’s story at face value.
6. Saira visits some RAWA women putting on lipstick and rouge and we are told
that this is a form of resistance to the Taliban!
7. CNN used “here comes dracula” and ‘the killing fields’ music repeatedly to
create the impression that Afghanistan is some huge land of terror
controlled, in Saira’s words by the “brutal, repressive” Taliban. Ruined
buildings have existed in Kabul from before the Taliban take-over.
WHAT SAIRA AND CNN LEFT OUT ENTIRELY:
- Afghanistan gave a million martyrs to drive out the Russians. Almost every
village was destroyed by the Russians creating the biggest refugee population
in human history. (It was not difficult to find bodies and atrocity stories
and make doctored videos as RAWA has done.) - Kabul was ruined because of fighting between PRE-TALIBAN groups. The
Taliban took it by storm: Hence most of it is in ruins. This has nothing to
do with Taliban rule. In fact TALIBAN HAVE BROUGHT PEACE TO 95% of
Afghanistan. Hence Saira was able to travel without any problem in lands
under Taliban control. - Much of the suffering in Afghanistan is owing to the destruction of its
infrastructure and USA’s persistent efforts to create destabilization through
sanctions. - India, Iran and Russia continue to arm the northeastern groups while
Taliban are cut off by U.S. sanctions. Thus, as in Sudan, the fighting is
prolonged and peace does not come.
WHAT CAN BE DONE?:
All well wishers of Afghanistan should help to build hospitals, roads. clean
water facilities, schools UNCONDITIONALLY.
Out of all moneys going to Russia from USA, Afghanistan should have a primary
share.
There are many problems in Afghanistan. The Taliban, like all governments,
have their weaknesses. Condemnation and isolation of these proud and brave
people will not work. We must be their friends and show them that we can be
trusted.
THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF WIDOWS AND ORPHANS. Muslims from around
the world should marry these women or help them get married. In such cases,
polygamy is permitted by the Qur’an.
Source: RAIN (Research and Information Network)