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Second Life & WoW Terrorist Training Camps?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept.

Tech.Luver writes "theinquirer reports that 'Aussie Security experts claim that Second Life and online games such as World of Warcraft are being used to train terrorists. Apparently there are three jihadi terrorists registered and two elite jihadist terrorist groups in Second Life and they use the site for recruiting and training. This is on top of the Second Life Liberation Army.""

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  1. ROFLMAO by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh noes!

    How do you kill...that which has no life?

    No seriously, I think I saw a video of them training once(nsfw). They're in yer raids, ninjaing your epic loots.

    Some people are so damn stupid. What bearing could this possibly have on real life? The only thing I can think of is that you're increasing the fat, out of shape, cheetoes consuming segment of the terrorist population...Scary stuff. They do enough of this "training", we could neutralize them with a gift of free broadband and some jolt cola.

    The only way I'll believe that this is real is if we start getting evidence of terrorist attacks on gold farmers.

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    ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
    1. Re:ROFLMAO by dc29A · · Score: 4, Funny

      I *REALLY* hope they'll use WoW as a training camp. It's the only way we'll win this "War on Terror". The terrorists will be confused by very different laws of physics in the real world.

      I can picture it already ... Terrorist sees an airplane, jumps on a bird thinking it has the same abilities as a netherdrake in WoW and tries to fly to intercept plane and make it crash with his Fireball rank XII spell. Or better, they'll work in gold farming sweatshops trying to "subvert" the "evil" western economies!

    2. Re:ROFLMAO by dpilot · · Score: 5, Funny

      Come on, put your tinfoil hat on for a moment...

      This means that Second Life and WoW have become terrorist-affiliated/terrorist-supporting orgainizations.
      That means that everyone subscribing to Second Life or WoW now have financial links to terrorism.
      Therefore :
          Everyone on Second Life and WoW is open game for DHS, warrantless wiretaps, asset freezing, etc.

      (silly sarcasm, frightening Orwellian reality, or absurd conspiracy theory, you decide.)

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      The living have better things to do than to continue hating the dead.
    3. Re:ROFLMAO by tehcyder · · Score: 5, Funny

      Come on, put your tinfoil hat on for a moment...
      What, you mean you take yours off sometimes?!
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      To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
    4. Re:ROFLMAO by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 5, Funny

      When the FBI came for the trolls,
      I remained silent;
      I was not a troll.

      When they locked up the orcs,
      I remained silent;
      I was not an orc.

      When they came for the dark elves,
      I did not speak out;
      I was not a dark elf.

      When they came for me,
      there was no one left to subscribe.

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      It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
    5. Re:ROFLMAO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      (put tinfoil hat)
            Linden Labs
            Lin denla bs
            Bin denla ls
            Bin Laden SL
      Hurry... someone must advice the CIA! :p

  2. Wow by thatskinnyguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is news... The terrorists have less of a life than we do!

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    The game.
  3. Gotta be -1 redundant by Himring · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...by the time I post this:

    If you play wow, you're supporting the terrorists!

    Or,

    So that's where they kept the WMDs.... In Ironforge!

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    "All great things are simple & expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope." --Churchill
  4. Alliance or Horde? by andrewd18 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The real question here is, "Is the US Military the Alliance or the Horde?"

  5. We need an inside man, some human intel... by Dareth · · Score: 5, Funny

    And we have the perfect operative for the job. Someone who can blend in with the terrorist and provide this intel.

    The only agent for this job is none other than LEEROY JENKINS!

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    I only look human.
    My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
  6. It's true! by Experiment+626 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's true. According to documents recently captured by the CIA, some of the plots they are working on include:

    • "Get up to 375 in Goblin Engineering so we can build better improvised explosive devices"
    • "Crash epic flying mounts into buildings instead of airliners"
    • "Build a Mana Bomb like those blood elves east of Shattrath City have"
    • "Stock up on +sneak gear and enchants so we can stealth past the Secret Service and crit-backstab President Bush"
    • "Recruit an Enchanter to our cause so we can get Fiery cast on our AK-47's, for the nice glow and DPS increase" (Bin Laden vetoed this one, saying "You can only put enchants on melee weapons, n00b")
  7. WoW trained terrorists by jayhawk88 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Baffling news today from the West Bank, where officials arrested six terrorists who were attempting to attack a local market. Apparently the terrorists tried to execute their attack by teasing several vicious dogs they found wandering in a nearby alley, then leading the dogs to the market as they ran towards it. Witnesses say that the terrorists ran into the market, waited until the dogs were right on top of them, then attempted to confuse the dogs in various ways. One terrorist wrapped himself in a camoflage cloak and hid behind a fruit vendors stand, while several others simply laid on the ground and played dead. All six terrorists were hospitalized with bite and claw wounds to their face and arms.

  8. somebody call Jack! by Lurker2288 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ACTUAL bad guys learning and practicing their horrific murder skills in a virtual environment?

    Somewhere, Jack Thompson just got a chubby.

  9. Re:Eh. by Opportunist · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, sir. This is terrorhype. Logic and reason is in the next room.

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