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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"Counter Strike?" by ZombieRoboNinja · 2006-10-02 04:56 · Score: 0, Redundant

I'm confused... is this actually the CounterStrike we all know and love, or is it some game created by an Iranian company that happens to share the same name? And if it's the former, are we talking about some kind of mod for it, designed by terrorists, or did some jackass just get the box copy, see the option to play as "terrorists," and call in the press?