A pretty good collection of "hard data" recently complied by interviewing 1000 men in Kandahar and Helmand.

http://www.icosgroup.net/documents/a..._variables.pdf

(I have mentioned on here previously that many rural Afghans assume the Coalition forces are Russians. A continuation of that previous invasion. This may be aided in part by the fact that we work with many of the same Afgan officials. In this report it discloses that 90% of those interviewed had never heard of 9/11 and that most assume we were just there to control their country.)