Backers are shadowy but message is clear in graphic TV ad against terrorism

International Herald Tribune - Africa and Middle East ^ | 10/10/2006 | AP

[Pirate21]

A TV commercial aimed at thwarting terrorism has hit Middle Eastern TV networks using high-tech effects to show the anatomy of a suicide bombing in graphic detail.
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The US$1 million (€800,000) ad is packed with special effects including the time-suspension technique made popular in the "Matrix" movies to show bodies, cars and broken glass flying in slow motion through the air.
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The 60-second ad opens with a young boy seeing a man walk by in a crowded market. The man stops and exposes yellow explosives strapped to his body. The boy sees the bombs just before they go off, sending cars flying and people crashing through the windows of a cafe.
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The ad then shows the aftermath: wreckage, weeping and fires. It ends with the words "Terrorism has no religion" in Arabic.
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The ad is on a Web site — www.noterror.info — where viewers can see it and read Quranic verses deploring violence.
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[Pirate21]

Saw this on Fox and Friends this morning. I am curious as to the use of the bottom of the young boy's shoe at the beginning of the video. Thought that was taboo.

[Sister_T]

Wow.

[roostercashews]

Very powerful. Hopefully it will do some good... Although I doubt it. Being the cynic I am, I think many will see this as just another "Western movie influence" attacking the culture.

[Mercat]

it's tied to the shoe that lands on the car at the end making it clear that the little boy wearing it was killed.

[epluribus_2]

Wonder if the goat herders in Waziristan have TV's.

[reagan_fanatic]

Good strategy. You can provoke a lot of thought and debate with an ad like this. More like it needs to be done and broadcast throughout the entire ME.

[isthisnickcool]

Pretty powerful. They should add a part where the bomber is suddenly somewhere else. So after he blows himself and everyone else up he says "Where are my 72 virgins" to which satan laughs and then sets him on fire for eternity.

[RayStacy]

I don't have a Ph.D. in Mid East studies or anything like that, but I think your idea is unlikely to fly. :) I like it, though.

[stevie_d_64]

I wouldn't call them goat "herders" per say...;-)

[isthisnickcool]

Click on my name to read what Churchill said about the borg.

[Gondring]

ping

[jerod]

Somebody should post it on YOUTUBE. I don't have the smarts, nor an account.