According to a report by Frank Gardner of the BBC the UK government is considering utilizing mobile media devices to counter Taleban propaganda in Afghanistan. The novel idea is an attempt to allow Afghans access to communications systems that is currently monopolized by the Taleban who continue to win the propaganda war depicting the Western allies as an evil empire.

The plan would enable non-governmental companies to distribute mobile devices so that Afghans could create their own video diaries. It is hoped that 100 of the self-made films could then be uploaded to the internet, and be ready for a national film festival scheduled for next summer.

There are currently six million mobile phones in Afghanistan and half a million people have access to the internet. Many of the phones are bombarded with grotesque Anti-Western propaganda films put out by the Taleban.

The announcement comes in the same week that NATO has approved the use of force in Afghanistan to attack and destroy Afghanistan's opium trade. Afghanistan produces 92 percent of the world's heroin and opium providing the Al-Qaeda backed forces with $100 million annually to supply arms to the insurgency.

The mobile media idea still needs approval from Whitehall officials and it could potentially backfire if the Taleban are able to intercept the phones and turn around and use them for their own messages.