Videogame Character Threatens National Security?

Watchful Babbler writes "Apparently, 'the lead item on the government's daily threat matrix one day last April' was clear and definite: a reclusive millionaire had formed a terrorist group with the intent of launching chemical weapons attacks on Western cities. The White House was notified and the Director of the FBI briefed as the government raced to find information. But then, according to USNews.com, a White House staffer decided to Google for information on suspected threat Don Emilio Fulci and found him -- in a video game - Sega's action title Headhunter. No word on exactly which sources and methods came up with this gem, but word in the E Ring is that Fulci had issued the cryptic warning, 'You have no chance to survive make your time'."

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Re:Aha!

[protohiro1]

Well, all we know is that Saddam didn't have them anymore when the US invaded. That seems to explain why Han Blix didn't find anything when his team was in Iraq before the war. I don't think there was any "evidence of absence" that would have satisfied the Bush administration and called of the war.

Luckily, thanks to Mr. Bush & co we have succesfully captured thousands of tons of VX guns and some yellow cake uranium. Iraq is also now a peaceful democracy and a shining becon of freedom to the middle east.

Re:Aha!

[cheezedawg]

Well, all we know is that Saddam didn't have them anymore when the US invaded.

Unless you have some inside knowledge here, we do NOT know that. We do not know where the weapons are, hence the term "unaccounted".

You see, this was not a hide a seek game. The cease-fire that Saddam agreed to in Safwan, and the subsequent UN resolutions 678 and 687 were very specific about what Saddam needed to do. He gave the UN proof that some of the weapons were destroyed, and some other weapons have degraded over time and are likely now useless, but nobody (including Hans Blix or Chirac or Shroeder) claims that he complied with the disarmament.

Re:Aha!

[EvilTwinSkippy]

The irony of it all was the Saddam thought he was in defiance. It turns out the scientists for his "Weapons of Mass Destruction" program were robbing him blind. Iraq of late was a giant "Kleptocracy."

The researchers and techs weren't hiding WMD from the UN. They were hiding the complete and utter absence of them from Saddam, lest they and their families be sent to afterlife in the most grisly way Uday could devise.