A Timeline of Propaganda

A couple of days ago the International Secuirty Assistance force, ISAF, issued an unusual press release stating

having given medical assistance to injured civilians in the Sangin district of Helmand province yesterday it has received information, from a reliable source, that insurgents are planning to make a propaganda claim that international military forces have killed up to 70 civilians in the same area

Looks like the Pak Tribune picked up the taliban's propaganda claim. Only the Pak Tribune upped the civilian casualities a little bit. By about 430.

At least 500 civilians were killed or wounded during the five-day US-led troops` ground and air operation in the Sangin district of Helmand province, a member of Afghanistan`s parliament said on Sunday.
"Foreign forces have been conducting operation in Sarwan Qala area of Sangin district for the last five days in which artillery and aircraft are being used," Dad Muhammad Khan, member of Wolesi Jirga (lower house of parliament), told Afghan Islamic Press.

I guess if you'gonna lie make the lie so outragious that it's almost believable. But then again people in Pakistan are pretty gullable. I mean some of them believe you get 72 virgins if you blow yourself up.

The ISAF issued a press release today rejecting the claims...

ISAF and the U.S.-led coalition reject claims that its forces have killed 500 civilians in the Sarwan Qala area of Sangin district, Helmand, in the past week.
The claims were reported in some media outlets September 1.

ISAF can account fully for its units and aircraft, none of which were used against civilians in the Sarwan Qala area. Therefore, ISAF refutes any such claim of mass civilian casualties.