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Terrorist Groups Use Computer Games for Training and Attacks Simulations |
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The terrorist group Hezbollah, backed by Iran and based in southern Lebanon, has begun marketing a computer game simulating attacks on Israeli soldiers and allowing target practice using Israeli officials such as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
The game, "Special Force",
took two years of development by the Hezbollah Central Internet Bureau, according to a report today in Lebanon's Daily Star. According to the report, the game, which hit the market two weeks ago, places players in different stages of Hezbollah operations against the Jewish state.
The game incites youngsters against Jewish people and spread anti-Semitism. It trains potential terrorists to identify Jewish targets and to attack them.
Players face the same conditions as Hezbollah terrorists, including geographic locations, mines, the number of Israeli troops and even the weather conditions. Special Force also offers a training simulation, where players can practice their shooting skills on targets such as Sharon and other Israeli political and military figures.
To my understanding this game should be declared illegal for distribution by any peace-seeking country. It is a training tool for terrorist groups and its developers should be brought to justice. The likeable packaging as a "computer game" should not disguised the fact that this is a "terror training" tool. The front against terrorism cannot tolerate games to be used for incitement to terrorism and spread of hate. The developers claim that the distribution of the game is protected as part of their free speech right . Free speech has its limits! This is a terror training tool and should be treated as such. The speech component should not distract our analysis of such a tool. Go to the game's website, watch the simulation and decide whether it is only a innocent "computer game". The "game" is not a mere verbal encouragement to resistance but serves as a practical simulation of the fighting scene and trains terrorists to the actual fighting conditions. The fight against terror has many fronts. Apparently, computer games become an additional front. We should stop it! See more: World Net Daily
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Re: Terrorist Groups Use Computer Games for Training and Attacks Simulations (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Sunday, March 09 @ 20:51:36 EST | The second paragraph is, I hope, sarcasm. This "terrorist" training game sounds to me no different from the "military" training (and recruitment) game America's Army. Of course if one military organization thinks that computer games are a good training tool, other military organizations are likely to follow suit. The practical goals and needs of a military organization don't change much with which side it's on. |
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Re: Terrorist Groups Use Computer Games for Training and Attacks Simulations (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Monday, March 10 @ 11:21:08 EST | Big deal. The US military has been using both off-the-shelf and purpose built video games for training for years. |
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Re: Terrorist Groups Use Computer Games for Training and Attacks Simulations (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Monday, March 10 @ 12:23:30 EST | Where was your outcry when Castle Wolfenstein featured the killing of Nazi's? It seems the only difference is the perception of enemy or friend. |
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Re: Terrorist Groups Use Computer Games for Training and Attacks Simulations (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Monday, March 10 @ 13:22:13 EST | Sorry for the provocation but let's make an hypo: Terror groups take digital pictures of air terminals in the US and target buildings in main US cities, devlop an online flight simulator of a civil airplane and distribute the software with an encourgament to plan real attacks using this "game". Just a game? inoccent simulator? Free speech protection? |
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Re: Terrorist Groups Use Computer Games for Training and Attacks Simulations (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Monday, March 10 @ 16:18:49 EST | I hope this is sarcasism, but I'm not too sure. 2nd time I read something here that "should" be sarcasism but was hard to tell.
Free Speech: Who says "terror training tools", whatever that vague definition means, should be illegal.
They should not. Just like plans to make bombs, how the hoover damn is build, etc are or should not be illegal.
Crimes should be illegal, education about and information on crimes should not.
Would the exact same game be a "terror training tool" if it was released by some FPS mod group?
What about by Sierra?
What if the same game engine and similar content were released but instead of Isreal and its citizens, Palestinian refugee camps and Arrafat where the targets?
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