Kidnapping videos targeting workers aimed to expose American imperial arrogance.

Evidence

The lives of foreign migrant workers hired by subcontractors to service the U.S. military occupation were thus endangered by a scheme to create instability in the occupying forces’ infrastructure and, ultimately, to expose the imperial hubris of the United States. Evidence of this intention circulated in the videotapes sent to media outlets, which were often shot in a simple documentary style. These videos, played relentlessly on Pakistani satellite news programs, captivated another object-a national audience-with increasing public disapproval of, and protests against, the U. — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 18