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US Leaflet Show ISIS as Meat Grinder
Background Information
This drawing depicts new ISIS recruits who are being fed into a meat grinder. It was created by the U.S. government and 60,000 of these leaflets were dropped in Syria as part of a anti-ISIS propaganda campaign, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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This is propaganda because
This drawing portrays joining ISIS as being a victim and it communicates an over-simplified message that activates emotion because of the horror involved in putting people into a meat grinder.
This message was dropped into a town days before our Intel people predicted Da'esh would roll into town and start their rampages and public beheadings in order to force people to fight for them. At the time anyone who took up arms would then be subject to their rules. Anyone who refused was killed, anyone who turned from battle was killed, and anyone they deemed unable to fight (elders and sick) must help the cause or be killed. Most of the town evacuated before the Da'esh soldiers showed up probably sparing quite a few lives.
There are other leaflets we have dropped that have saved many of innocent lives.
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