{"id":1328,"date":"2010-04-14T19:16:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T00:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2010\/04\/14\/how-americans-are-propagandized-about-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T19:16:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T00:16:02","slug":"how-americans-are-propagandized-about-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2010\/04\/14\/how-americans-are-propagandized-about-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"How Americans Are Propagandized About Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 12 of this year, U.S. forces entered a village in the Paktia Province in Afghanistan and, after surrounding a home where a celebration of a new birth was taking place, shot dead two male civilians (government officials) who exited the house in order to inquire why they had been surrounded. The Pentagon then issued a statement claiming that (a) the dead were all &#8220;insurgents&#8221; or terrorists, (b) the bodies of three women had been found bound and gagged inside the home (including two pregnant women, one a mother of 10 children and the other a mother of six children, and a teenage girl), and (c) suggested that the women had already been killed by the time the U.S. had arrived, likely the victim of &#8220;honor killings&#8221; by the Taliban militants killed in the attack. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2010\/04\/05-2\">Full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 12 of this year, U.S. forces entered a village in the Paktia Province in Afghanistan and, after surrounding a home where a celebration of a new birth was taking place, shot dead two male civilians (government officials) who exited the house in order to inquire why they had been surrounded. The Pentagon then &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2010\/04\/14\/how-americans-are-propagandized-about-afghanistan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Americans Are Propagandized About Afghanistan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}