Videogames Used to Train Terrorists?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday October 2, 2006 @04:37AM from the guessing-its-not-barbie-horse-adventure dept.

kalpatin writes "Reuters reports that videogames are being used to train terrorists. The title Counter-Strike is apparently being used as a tool to prepare individuals for a mission: blowing up an oil tanker. The ultimate goal is to 'make the strait of Hormuz impassable, the Jomhouri-ye Eslami daily reported. About two-fifths of globally traded oil passes through the channel. The game illustrates a warning by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said in June that oil exports in the Gulf region could be seriously endangered if the United States made a wrong move on Iran.'"

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So what is a "right move on Iran"? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-02 05:43 · Score: -1, Flamebait

vaporize the place?
1. Re:So what is a "right move on Iran"? by Bloke+down+the+pub · 2006-10-02 07:14 · Score: 0, Flamebait
  
  .. from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
  
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  It's true I tell you, feller at work's next door neighbour read it in the paper.