U.S Central Command response to baseless Press TV propaganda

[noorzai]

Iran’s discredited Press TV is spreading rumors that US soldiers raped and killed an Afghan girl in Farah province. We want to affirm first and foremost that there is no truth to this story at all. We have to wonder, why would you take the word of Iran’s state-run propaganda vehicle on the veracity of such a story? Is not Press TV rated as an unreliable source of information? The fact that no other media outlet in the world has picked up this story should speak volumes. Press TV has been caught on numerous occasions fabricating in some of its international coverage while locally staying away from any form of criticism against its regime financers. In one notorious case, Press TV “photo shopped” special effects clips purported to pro-Israel demonstrators in Iran, the implications of these doctored photos are that Iran is tolerant, while the Israelis are intolerant of Iran. Press TV used a photo shopped image of Iranian demonstrators who held posters in favor of Israel while the real media image displayed anti-Israel demonstrators in Iran. http://thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=1657 The Press TV website quickly changed the picture when it was exposed as untruthful, but observers already saved a snapshot image. http://kamangir.net/2007/12/29 /press-TVs-latest-and-funniest-mistake/
ISAF policy takes all allegations seriously and we fully investigate any allegation. After the baseless Press TV news release, ISAF investigators found that no such alleged incident occurred in either RC west or anywhere in Farah province, Furthermore Farah provincial authorities, including provincial deputy chief of police has called it baseless propaganda, and added that no such incident has occurred nor been reported to them. An Afghan MOI spokesperson has also called the information baseless propaganda. Unfortunately peace haters are not above inventing conspiracy theories based on false allegations against the US. CENTCOM reassures forum readers that our troops are constantly instructed about how to honor and respect traditional Afghan females in a Muslim society. If God forbid, any such incident were to occur we assure you that justice will be done as in the Mahmudiyah incident in Iraq.

Noorzai Jahani
D.E.T U.S CENTCOM
www.centcom .mil

[noorzai]

د ایران بی اعتباره پریس تلویزیونی شبکهّ په وروستیو کشی یوه ګونګوسی او دروغ شایعه خپره کړی په ګوم کشی چی واي امریکای سرتیرو په فراه ولایت کشی په یوي افغان انجلی جنسی تیری کړی او وروسته د دغه ځواکونو لخوا وژل شوي ده. لومړی خو غواړم تاسو ته دا ووایم چی دا خبر هیڅ ډول ریښتنی بڼه نلری. اول خو موږ د دی ډول خبرنو د روښتنی او اصلیت لپاره هیڅکله د ایران حکومتی شبکهَ ته مراجعه ونکړو ځکه دا یوه دولتی شبکه ده. آیا تاسو په دی پوهیږی نه چی پریس د یوه بی اعتماده خپرونه په څیر د نړی په کچه پیژندل شوي ده؟

داچی په نړی کشی هیڅ کوم بلي رسنی د دیي خبر د صداقت او روښتنی تاید کړی نه دی باید تاسو ته جوته شی چی دا فقط یو ناسم او نادرسته تبلیغ دي.

د پریس تلویزیونی شبکه په بیلا بیلو نړیوال جعلی خپرونی کشی افشاّ شوي ده په داسی حال کشی دا شبکه د نړیوالو په هکله جعلی خپرونی کوی خپل په ګاوندی واټونو ګشي د شبکی مالی پلویاني شپه او روز په ولس باندی ظلم او ستم روا ګنی

په یوی دیری بدنامه اونکی قضیه کشی پریس تلویزیونی شبکه بدنامه شوه، هغه دا وو چی د ایران د اسرایل د ضد مظاهره کوونکو څخه تصویر اخیستي وو او بیا د هغه څخه د فوتوشاپ په واسطه داسی تصویر جوړ کړی او چی مظاهره کونکی ښودل د اسرایل په ملاترټوپ کشی لاریون کوی، ان داچی د لاریون موخه برعکس وه یعنی اسرایل ضد لاریون وو په دی کشی مهم تیګی دا ده چی ایرانی شبکه غوښتل ځان داسی ښکاره کړی چی ایرانی ریژیم زغم او تحمل لری او غوښتلی نړیوال د دی لاری څخه بدنامه کړی، خو وروسته دا ثابته شوه چی تصویرونه جعلی فوتوشاپ شوي وه.

http://thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=1657

کله چی نړیوال د پریس تی وی په جعل کاری باندی خبر شوه د پریس تی وی کارکونکو په عاجله توګه تصویرونه لمنځه یوو ور او خوشبختانه لیدونکو مخته له دی چی تصویرونه لمنځه لارشی سنپ شاتي د انترنتی پانی څخه اخیستي وو.

http://kamangir.net/2007/12/29 /

نړیوال ځواکونه تل چی یوه شایعه او یا هم یوه ادعا د دوی په اړه خپره شی په کلکه تعقیبوی ترسو و کولای شی حقیقت څرګند شی. کله چی پریس تلویزیونی شبکه دا بی اساسه او دروغ خبر خپره کړه نو د ایسافو د څیړنی تیم دا معلومه کړه چی داسی هیڅ کومه پیشه د افغانستان په غرب او یا فراه ولایت کشی ترسره شوي نه ده. همدارنګه د فراه ولایت دولتی چارواکی هم د دی خبری د رده ولو ترڅنګ ویلي دی چی دا یو بی بنیاده او بی اساس خبر ده دوی ته داسی هیڅ کوم راپور او یاهم د دغه پیښه په هکله معلومات ترلاسه شوي نه دي. په حین حال کشی د افغانستان د کورنیو چارو وزارت ویاند هم دا پیښه رد کړی ده او ویلي دی چی دا یوه د سوّ تبلیغ خپرونه ده. له بدمرغه چی اوس هم داسی شبکه شته چی هڅه کوي متحده ایالات په ناسمه معلوماتو بدنامه کړی. د سنتکام په نماینده ګی تاسو ډاد درکوم چی زموږ سرتیرو ته په دوام داره توګه د مسلمان ښځو د احترام او ښه چلند په هکله روزنی ورکول کیږي. او خدای مکړه که دا پیښه حقیقت درلودي نو د مجرمینو سره په هماغه چلند شوي وی لکه د اعراق د مهمودیا په پیښه کشی وشو.

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www.centcom.mil

[BarakzaiAbdali]

Iran’s discredited Press TV is spreading rumors that US soldiers raped and killed an Afghan girl in Farah province. We want to affirm first and foremost that there is no truth to this story at all. We have to wonder, why would you take the word of Iran’s state-run propaganda vehicle on the veracity of such a story? Is not Press TV rated as an unreliable source of information? The fact that no other media outlet in the world has picked up this story should speak volumes. Press TV has been caught on numerous occasions fabricating in some of its international coverage while locally staying away from any form of criticism against its regime financers. In one notorious case, Press TV “photo shopped” special effects clips purported to pro-Israel demonstrators in Iran, the implications of these doctored photos are that Iran is tolerant, while the Israelis are intolerant of Iran. Press TV used a photo shopped image of Iranian demonstrators who held posters in favor of Israel while the real media image displayed anti-Israel demonstrators in Iran. http://thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=1657 The Press TV website quickly changed the picture when it was exposed as untruthful, but observers already saved a snapshot image. http://kamangir.net/2007/12/29 /press-TVs-latest-and-funniest-mistake/
ISAF policy takes all allegations seriously and we fully investigate any allegation. After the baseless Press TV news release, ISAF investigators found that no such alleged incident occurred in either RC west or anywhere in Farah province, Furthermore Farah provincial authorities, including provincial deputy chief of police has called it baseless propaganda, and added that no such incident has occurred nor been reported to them. An Afghan MOI spokesperson has also called the information baseless propaganda. Unfortunately peace haters are not above inventing conspiracy theories based on false allegations against the US. CENTCOM reassures forum readers that our troops are constantly instructed about how to honor and respect traditional Afghan females in a Muslim society. If God forbid, any such incident were to occur we assure you that justice will be done as in the Mahmudiyah incident in Iraq.

Noorzai Jahani
D.E.T U.S CENTCOM
www.centcom .mil

One name comes to mind: Abeer Qasim Hamza Al Janabi.

Stephen Green was very well taught on how to deal with Muslim females wasn't he?

Or these guys?

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/as...315854832.html

And please do not retort with the typical rhetoric of how we do far better than the locals and the insurgency when it cames to rape, murder, looting, etc. Anyone with common sense would understand, as the Afghan civilians that have spoken with the Washington Post have noted, that rebel response is just that... a response... to the misuse of our military in Afghanistan and Pakistan. That roadside bomb that kills 50 civilians is there to because you know darned well that is the only weapon that they have to fight you with. It was planted there because you are there.

Moreover, all one needs to do is turn on the National Geographic Channel and see that the abuse, day in and day out that they heap on the locals. If you treat them so well, why do they want you out of Qandahar province?

Why does Matthew Hoh ardently disagree with you? Why does Michael Scheuer ardently disagree with you.

You do your country a disservice when you deny reality and continue to support ole Max Boot's sycophantic, presidential nomination seeking, war losing general, David Petreus against the constitutional realities.

[da_ghaljay_shamar]

The name noorzai associated with centcom is like a seeing an American soldier leave a sperm stain on the lap of a Noorzai woman and that nasty stain would start talk to you. SCARY!!!!!!

[Wrayun]

Noorzai Jahani,

If indeed this is propaganda and baseless accusations coming from Press TV, I think this is a good opportunity to expose them even further by making this "response" more public. Why not run it through some major news sources, so people can get to the bottom of it? I'm sure major news orgs will research it, find out it is baseless and expose Press TV.

Pasting a response on this platform is not enough since all sorts of other concerned parties have picked up on the Press TV release.

[Wrayun]

BTW, the Press TV image scandal. It wasn't really intentional because the image was not created by Press TV or Iranians rather by the TPC website. Press TV just happened to google an image that they thought will go well with their own story. They didn't realize that the image was "shopped". If it was created by the Iranians, now that would have meant dishonesty.

[کیش]

Like CNN, MSNBC, and Fox news is trustworthy. Two years ago CNN taped in interview with zabiullah mujahid, but that was exposed as a fake. With the real Zabiullah saying he never granted an interview with CNN

[Catya Sher]

Who would BELIEVE something coming out of Centcom ?

Press TV has been the only news organization telling the truth about so much !

They are independent, not beholden to the Zionist Media Machine.

They could make a mistake once in awhile.

But the Western agencies do this day in, day out.

The angry reaction shows how much of a threat Press Tv has become to
NATO operations in Afghanistan.
Press Tv always reveals the hidden tactics of American military operations.

For example right after the Wardak killing of TWO STUDENTS proclaimed by the US to have been "dangerous Taliban" people, Press Tv
conducted an interview with a retired American military expert.
He stated that this was
INTENTIONAL
Not by accident at all !

It was incredibly revealing.
Zarawar and I caught this but few other members here noticed it or remarked on it.
I found it on, of course, Press Tv...!

It meant that the Wardak killings of students AND so many other murders of civilians are INTENTIONAL.

Nato PRETENDS to apologize.
That's a big sham.
Never believe it!
They WANT to kill AT RANDOM
to intimidate the population.

The expert interviewed had experience from Vietnam, where
the same exact tactic was employed.

[darwezkhail]

Like CNN, MSNBC, and Fox news is trustworthy. Two years ago CNN taped in interview with zabiullah mujahid, but that was exposed as a fake. With the real Zabiullah saying he never granted an interview with CNN

I remember that interview with the Dr. Najibullah and Ahmad Shah Masoud pictures proudly hanging on the walls of the spokesman's room and the bath towel he used to cover his head and face. Now, that was amusing.

Zabiullah is always seen with a patoo. Why wouldn't he cover with something more appropriate ?

[Catya Sher]

Seriously???
That is so bizarre that CNN would imagine they could get away with all THAT !
A bath towel ... Ha ha ha

NAJIB'S PICTURE AND MASSOUD ?

TOTALLY IDIOTIC !

[I'm glad our Idiot here is on a completely echelon !]

Actually I love to see all this exposure of the lies being told to malign
Taliban and by extension, all Afghans who are true to themselves in rejectnig
an enforced "democracy, womens 'rights'" etc which are the
most obviously fake excuses the West drummed up to justify an all-out decimation of Afghanistan.

What's even stranger is that --
the WORLD swallowed these silly lies and said "fine, go ahead, we won't stop you".

No one but Afghans tried to stop them.

So of course Taliban are demonized.

It's almost to the point of saying "The Kurds have no friends" - now they do, America.
But Afghans have no friends, truly, at this point.

Maybe just the brave posters on this site are rooting for them.
No one else seems to be....

[کیش]

I remember that interview with the Dr. Najibullah and Ahmad Shah Masoud pictures proudly hanging on the walls of the spokesman's room and the bath towel he used to cover his head and face. Now, that was amusing.

Zabiullah is always seen with a patoo. Why wouldn't he cover with something more appropriate ?

The gut who conducted the Interview it was Nic something I belief used to always report around Afghanistan. I haven't seem/heard of him since that interview.

Remember the "dancing Palestinians?" on 9/11? America still used this video to demonize them but that video was a bunch a crap. news agencies stopped referring to that video after 9/12. But American citizens still have those clips in there mind

[faye]

interesting. i read lots of reports that it was 'dancing israelis' and that the company they worked for closed down after they were reported and arrested. one guy that worked for the company was said to say, 'now the americans know what it is like to be attacked'. so it has been turned into 'dancing palestinians'.

[Alchemist]

Noorzai Jahani
D.E.T U.S CENTCOM
www.centcom .mil

Noorzai must be so proud of you

representin yo!

[kakargirl]

Iran’s discredited Press TV is spreading rumors that US soldiers raped and killed an Afghan girl in Farah province. We want to affirm first and foremost that there is no truth to this story at all. We have to wonder, why would you take the word of Iran’s state-run propaganda vehicle on the veracity of such a story? Is not Press TV rated as an unreliable source of information? The fact that no other media outlet in the world has picked up this story should speak volumes. Press TV has been caught on numerous occasions fabricating in some of its international coverage while locally staying away from any form of criticism against its regime financers. In one notorious case, Press TV “photo shopped” special effects clips purported to pro-Israel demonstrators in Iran, the implications of these doctored photos are that Iran is tolerant, while the Israelis are intolerant of Iran. Press TV used a photo shopped image of Iranian demonstrators who held posters in favor of Israel while the real media image displayed anti-Israel demonstrators in Iran. http://thepeoplescube.com/red/viewtopic.php?t=1657 The Press TV website quickly changed the picture when it was exposed as untruthful, but observers already saved a snapshot image. http://kamangir.net/2007/12/29 /press-TVs-latest-and-funniest-mistake/
ISAF policy takes all allegations seriously and we fully investigate any allegation. After the baseless Press TV news release, ISAF investigators found that no such alleged incident occurred in either RC west or anywhere in Farah province, Furthermore Farah provincial authorities, including provincial deputy chief of police has called it baseless propaganda, and added that no such incident has occurred nor been reported to them. An Afghan MOI spokesperson has also called the information baseless propaganda. Unfortunately peace haters are not above inventing conspiracy theories based on false allegations against the US. CENTCOM reassures forum readers that our troops are constantly instructed about how to honor and respect traditional Afghan females in a Muslim society. If God forbid, any such incident were to occur we assure you that justice will be done as in the Mahmudiyah incident in Iraq.

Noorzai Jahani
D.E.T U.S CENTCOM
www.centcom .mil

and what about the girls they've raped in helmand bagh in out skirts of kandahar , what about my friends who are no more because of these big begharaths.

[Catya Sher]

Thanks for that independent testimony, Kakargirl.

It's important to combat this NATO DISINFORMATION campaign
That's an old Soviet-Communist term.
But the technique is employed here to
put out lies or distortions of truth.

Press TV is the rare station which brings out all the dirty laundry of the US.
Only really because the US never wastes a minute to try to defame Iran and its leadership.

If someone throws a shoe at Ahmadinejad in Azerbaijan, CNN and all big stations run it for ages !
If someone throws a shoe at Bush it's quietly shushed and the assailant
imprisoned...

There are countless examples of propaganda campaigns to make the current Iranian regime look like dangerous hicks who are threatening the very livelihood of every American !
It's preposterous.

Don't forget how BBC ran the picture of a huge rally for Ahmadinejad deliberately telling that it was a pro-Mousavi demonstration....

So, the Western media are hardly exempt from distorted images.
Their standards of Truth In Journalism are nothing to write home about.