(Source: Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Die Welt, internet search)
In a psychological warfare operation by the Chickenhawk faction,
strange ads with the slogan "No Power to Terrorism"
have continued to
appear in big European daily papers
(in Germany Suedeutsche Zeitung and
Die Welt).
The responsible organization calls itself
the European Security
Advocacy Group (ESAG).
ICOM, (International Communications Agency Network, based in Colorado)
and Vale International are the advertising agency
and spokespersons
for the ESAG campaign.
According to them, just after 9/11,
"a group of concerned people and
companies began the process
of creating a foundation and raising funds,
to develop a public awareness campaign,
that was launched the week of
15th of September."
In Spain, according to the Spanish ad agency Veinte
Segundos, five ads
are planned in different papers, and a sixth
one has been prepared in case
a major terrorist incident were to occur!
In Norway, ads are appearing in Aftenposten, where the ads
are run by
TIBE Inferno advertising agency.
In France, the campaign is being run by Dassas Publicitee,
which
handles textile brands like Lacoste.
The president of Dassas, Patrick
Walhain,
is also European regional Director of ICOM.
The quarter-page ads in Sueddeutsche Zeitung and Die Welt
focus in a
very artificial and suggestive references to Islam,
with various "reasons"
given for terrorism:
parents are sending children to "martyr schools,"
which preach hate and holy war;
al Qaeda employs "children soldiers,"
because "young bodies are cheap";
and, to dismiss the argument that
poverty and despair breed terrorism,
one ad said that terrorists usually
come from "good families"
like Osama bin Laden or the former German RAF
terrorists,
and not from the poor parts of the population.
The ads sound like PR writings for the chickenhawks and for Sharon.
The initiator of the campaign, Norman Vale,
president and founder of
the consulting and PR firm Vale International,
gave a very
philantropic-sounding and secretive interview
to the Spanish paper ABC
(Oct. 11-12).
He said, after 9/11, he needed two years,
to organize people for that
effort,
to "help show the effects of terror" on children, women, economy,
the future of free societies, education, etc.
Since terrorism does not
know any borders,
it is "a permanent threat for all societies"
and is
a threat also for coming generations.
He dismissed questions about whether
the U.S. government
or intelligence services were behind this campaign,
and underlined, that he does not have "any political aims."
