Photo: Commenters reply furiously to a story on Tolafghan.com.Afghans Gone Wild? -- Newsweek
The strange case of a Ramadan bash that wasn’t, and what it tells us about the divisions in Afghan society.
As a disinformation campaign, it was very effective.
Photos that were purportedly taken at an Afghan Embassy party in Washington, D.C.—which show behavior considered scandalous by Afghan standards—were posted to three Afghan Web sites this week (such as tolafghan.com), and later published by Kabul dailies. The stories and captions that accompanied the photos, which showed dancing and the apparent consumption of alcohol, claimed they were taken at recent party during the holy month of Ramadan.
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My Comment: This appears to be an elaborate hoax .... and an effective one. The question now is .... who orchestrated this, and why?
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