DISINFO: Western interests are behind Kabul airport terror attack
SUMMARY
The operation for the US withdrawal from Afghanistan was attacked in Kabul airport not by the Taliban, but by Islamic fundamentalist terrorist groups that, as we all know, are backed by Western interests to maintain destabilisation in the region.
RESPONSE
Disinformation narrative not backed by any evidence, promoting a recurring pro-Kremlin message about the West’s alleged support for terrorism.
While there is some discussion about the degree of the US indirect responsibility or collateral effect in the past promotion of Islamic extremism due to its support of Afghan rebel groups against the Soviet invasion in the 1980s, pro-Kremlin disinformation has taken this narrative a step further, promoting the baseless conspiracy theory that the West established many terrorist organisations and that it has full control over global terrorism, of which this disinformation story is a perfect example.
Given that the US and other Western countries have also backed opposition armed groups in Syria, all of which are labelled as “terrorists” by both the Syrian regime of Bashar Al Assad and Russia, this disinformation message aims to blur any distinction among all those groups in order to portray the West as a “supporter of terrorists”. In fact, the opposite is true: the US and other Western nations have been actively fighting Islamic terrorist groups for decades and years (Al Qaeda since the 1990s, the Taliban since 2001 and the Islamic State since its creation as an independent group and its takeover of Mosul in 2014).
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives in our database, such as claims that the US seeded chaos in Afghanistan to undermine China and Russia, that the US created a drug laboratory on a global scale in Afghanistan, that the US generated and backed Al Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Taliban, or that the US created the terrorists who killed two Spanish journalists in Africa.