This report by CBS came out in November 2010. Now I'm on the internet everyday and I don't remember this being reported. I didn't see it anywhere.
Frontline Afghans Unaware of 9/11, Report Says
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/frontline-afghans-unaware-of-9-11-report-says/
An overwhelming number of Afghan men living in the region that is a major front in the U.S.-led war on the Taliban don't know anything about the terrorist attacks that brought international soldiers to Afghanistan, according to a report from an international policy think tank released Friday.
"The lack of awareness of why we are there contributes to the high levels of negativity toward the NATO military operations and made the job of the Taliban easier," Norine MacDonald, the think tank's president, told Reuters. "We need to explain to the Afghan people why we are here and both convince them and show them that their future is better with us than the Taliban."
To make matters even stranger....
The remaining eight per cent who did know often blamed conspiracy theories and said that America was responsible to justify its foreign policy.
Norine MacDonald, president of the International Council on Security and Development, said the survey showed that nobody has bothered to actually explain to Afghans why British and U.S. soldiers are there.
She said: ‘There is a vacuum - and it's being filled by Al Qaeda and Taliban propaganda claiming that we are here to destroy Islam.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2035160/Most-Afghans-know-9-11-according-
This then begs the question, "Even though Iraq and Libya were more advanced as far as internet access:
did the people of Iraq even know why we invaded them?"
Frontline Afghans Unaware of 9/11, Report Says
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/frontline-afghans-unaware-of-9-11-report-says/
An overwhelming number of Afghan men living in the region that is a major front in the U.S.-led war on the Taliban don't know anything about the terrorist attacks that brought international soldiers to Afghanistan, according to a report from an international policy think tank released Friday.
"The lack of awareness of why we are there contributes to the high levels of negativity toward the NATO military operations and made the job of the Taliban easier," Norine MacDonald, the think tank's president, told Reuters. "We need to explain to the Afghan people why we are here and both convince them and show them that their future is better with us than the Taliban."
To make matters even stranger....
The remaining eight per cent who did know often blamed conspiracy theories and said that America was responsible to justify its foreign policy.
Norine MacDonald, president of the International Council on Security and Development, said the survey showed that nobody has bothered to actually explain to Afghans why British and U.S. soldiers are there.
She said: ‘There is a vacuum - and it's being filled by Al Qaeda and Taliban propaganda claiming that we are here to destroy Islam.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2035160/Most-Afghans-know-9-11-according-
This then begs the question, "Even though Iraq and Libya were more advanced as far as internet access:
did the people of Iraq even know why we invaded them?"
