There are ALWAYS Attrocity Stories, mass-produced and packaged with human interest angles tailored to both the circumstance and intended audience as agit-prop by all sides in nearly every war; carefully prepared by military and civilian propagandists, calculated to achieve the maximum achievable Psy-op potential in support of the war effort.
Sometimes the stories they put out conform to a particular psychosocial template or profile, and somtimes.... Sometimes the psychosocial profiling conforms to the story going around.
