An elite Taliban unit released propaganda images this week, including one mocking the iconic World War Two photo of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima. In the propaganda image, the Taliban fighters are shown raising their flag while wearing what appears to be U.S. and U.S. ally-made military gear.
“The Taliban’s Badri 313 Battalion released a collection of propaganda footage this past week,” the Daily Mail reported Sunday. “Among the collection was the recreation of the famed 1945 World War II picture of soldiers raising the American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima”
The propaganda shows a group of Taliban soldiers from the Badri 313 special unit raising the Taliban flag to mirror the World War Two image:
Taliban soldiers MOCK iconic World War II image of American Marines raising flag on Iwo Jima as soldiers don US military gear in propaganda footage
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U.S. Marines of the 28th Regiment, 5th Division, raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on Feb. 23, 1945. Strategically located only 660 miles from Tokyo, the Pacific island became the site of one of the bloodiest, most famous battles of World War II against Japan. (AP Photo/Joe Rosenthal)
The U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, commonly known as the Iwo Jima Memorial, in Arlington, Virginia, on July 4, 2005. The memorial honors all Marines killed in combat. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
In another propaganda stunt, Taliban fighters are seen below in a photo eating ice cream to mock President Joe Biden’s ice cream appetite:
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