Quote Originally Posted by tequila View Post
Superb post on how disinformation can leak into the press and thinktank world. Afghanistanica examines the idea of swarms of Chechen fighters in Afghanistan.

My favorite example of this was in Bing West's No True Glory where he implies that Chechen fighters fought against Marines in Falluja.
Indeed a great post, Tequila !

Some of the captions for the 'pics' are hilarious such as:

Pic: “We ain’t in Afghanistan. We in Moscow”

Who was saying this about the Chechens? Usually it was journalists, American officers or other US government spokespersons. It usually went something like this: “Yeah, we’re fighting the hardcore al Qaeda troops right now. You know, Arabs, Uzbeks, Malaysians, um….Uyghurs……and…uh …..the reanimated zombie corpses of Confederate soldiers and Chechens.” OK, maybe they did not actually say Malaysians but you get the point.
Pic: “Dude! The IMU has no Chechens. And I’m even running low on Uzbeks. If things keep up like this It’ll be just me.”

Actually, the only thing here that is definitely true is the part about the embassy, which was very small and had the worst embassy parties ever.