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Video Game Touted as Muslim Militant Recruiting Tool Revealed as Joke

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on May 26, 2006 - 11:52am.
The Hague - A video game that the U.S. government said was a "modded" version of Electronic Arts' "Battlefield 2" created by Muslim militants as a recruitment tool has been exposed to be a joke created by a 25-year-old Dutch gamer, Reuters reported. At a May 4 Congressional hearing, a Defense Department contractor paid $7 million to monitor militant websites called the homemade game a terrorist recruitment tool. "Samir," the game's creator, told Reuters he altered the game as a joke and to show off his production skills. "Government agencies should do more research before coming to conclusions," Samir told Reuters. "The movie wasn't what they presented it to be." Samir added that part of the modded game's soundtrack was taken from the satiric film "Team America: World Police."
http://tinyurl.com/etoxj (Reuters)
tags: Games | EA | DOD | Battlefield | Religion | Pranks | Netherlands |



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