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RABicle · Local time: May 25, 2006, 01:23 AM

Originally Posted by Media Watch

Urban legends gain popular acceptance because they tap into our deepest fears.

And after September 11, what could be more terrifying than a clever terrorist plot?

Originally Posted by The Daily Telegraph, Militants use games to recruit, 6th May, 2006

Militants use games to recruit

Tech-savvy militants from al-Qaeda and other groups have modified video war games so that US troops play the role of bad guys in battles with heavily-armed Islamic radical heroes, US Defence Department officials told Congress.

Reuters was also the source for that story in Sydney's Daily Telegraph.

And The Sydney Morning Herald ran the same Reuters report in their online news.

Both told readers about the disturbing content of these video games.

Originally Posted by Reuters, Islamists using US video games in youth appeal, 4th May, 2006

… the game depicts a man in Arab headdress carrying an automatic weapon into combat with US invaders.
"I was just a boy when the infidels came to my village in Blackhawk helicopters," a narrator's voice said as the screen flashed between images of street-level gunfights, explosions and helicopter assaults.

But that unnerving quote about the infidels caught the attention of lots of readers - because they'd heard it all before.

Originally Posted by Scene from "Team America: World Police

I was just a boy when the infidels came to my village in their Blackhawk helicopters. The infidels fired at the oilfields and they lit up like the eyes of Allah. Burning oil rained down from the sky and cooked everything it touched. I could only hide myself and cry as my goats were consumed by the fire of black liquid death.

http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/tra...s/s1644639.htm

Or WATCH the story here. It's great because the Media Watch voice overs destroy Reutors with their voices alone.
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/wat...2_2120&story=2

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Summonmaster · May 24, 2006, 12:27 PM

Reuters? Damn, now the idea that video games=bad will creep into my university's trading floor :@

I can only see the protesters' reactions to videogames declining from this. No way are the already loud and angry people going to say that videogames are good because terrorists are playing them.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

RABicle · Local time: May 25, 2006, 01:31 AM

Read the whole article, I only posted an exerpt. Reuters are a fucking joke and the ABC called them on it.

The issue here is the ridiculous anti video game bias in the press. And the pathetic way they go about reporting it.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

guyinrubbersuit · Local time: May 24, 2006, 12:42 PM

Well it's ok for the American Army to use their free game as a recruiting tool, but not so for al-Queda. Besides, if al-Queda don't recruit new people, who are we going to fight?

Ah Reuters....you're so silly.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Niekon · Local time: May 24, 2006, 01:16 PM

I recall reading a bit over on GamePolitics about that a couple of weeks ago and I had a great laugh about the fact that the intelligence community totally screwed the pooch on this one.

BTW: GP just updated with the bit that their story was being covered on MediaWatch... nice to see that some folks within the media are catching on that not everything is evil within videogames... only evil videogames I can point out are Britney's Dance Beat and any Barbie title... ^_~

I was speaking idiomatically.