Taliban Burning - Afghanistan

October 2005
After soldiers of a US 173rd Airborne company burn the bodies of two Taliban killed near the Pakistan border, members of the army's psychological warfare unit then broadcast an inflammatory message designed to taunt and bait the
enemy.

US soldiers in Afghanistan have taken the tactics of psychological warfare to a grotesque extreme. After soldiers of a US 173rd Airborne company burn the bodies of two Taliban killed near the Pakistan border in a desecration of Muslim burial rituals, members of the army's psychological warfare unit then broadcast an inflammatory message designed to taunt and bait the enemy. A translation offered on camera by Sergeant Jim Baker of "PsyOps" reads: "Attention Taliban. You are all cowardly dogs. You allowed your fighters to be burned. This just proves you are the ladyboys we always believed you to be." In recent months, the Taliban have launched more attacks that at any time since the invasion. Faced with such a resurgence, the Americans are resorting to psychological warfare to demoralise the enemy. Armored vehicles loaded with loudspeakers blast loud, offensive music into the valleys. But such tactics may also heighten the perception of local people that the Americans are as barbarous as the Taliban.

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[kidcalabria]

I'd like to know what these troops are doing there since 2001. First they said they had to get rid of terrorist training camps: surely in 11 years they have achieved that. Then it was to capture Osama Bin Laden, & now he's dead... so why are they still there then? There's a massive economic crisis: how much is costing Western countries to keep there all these troops (plus engineers, medics, nurses, cooks, journalists, etc..)? They're getting slaughtered as well, so what's the point?

[SuperBenzid]

They should of just played Celine Dion, no one could stop themselves attacking that.

[Donavan68]

lol @ the Afgan special forces soldier, around 1:20, he drops a RPG. >.<

[abunaiN1]

@MrEestimaa actually they did .they killed more us soldiers than the official numbers us gov published... all that with old rusty ak47s... they did a really good work indeed.!

whole us is based on adverts like ''bigger is better''and stuff like that pissing on dead soldiers video...barbarians and uneducated ppl...

[MrEestimaa]

@abunaiN1 yup taliban IS NO TERRORIST!!!..I SUPPORT TALIBAN AND WANT THEM GET THEY POWER BACK...do you want them win 2 ?:P.

[abunaiN1]

@turbotim3 no it was a inside job the real terrorists are u.s.

[klowdz1]

What ..the.. FUCK?!

[turbotim3]

You think 9/11 was a inside job? You are gullible.

[VladimirFromBelarus]

America has created a democracy? ARE YOU CRAZY?!

[bash513]

@Frozenmonkey2 more shame for you westener, cos lose to Japan + Iraq even Afghanistan