James Galvin

Last night I spent some time laughing at the Yahoo article exposing the latest wave of terrorist activities: converting popular computer games as a tool for propaganda and training of recruits. As bad as it was, it gets worse.

Dvorak got the story this morning, where julieb pointed out that the source which was the basis of the terrible article, supposedly a Battlefield 2 mod made by al Qaeda to train young terrorists, was actually a video made by one of the lads over on the Planet Battlefield forums, using Trey Parker’s Team America: World Police voiceover. Here’s what julieb says:

The video the retarded writer is referring to is not made by terrorists. It was made by a member of the Planetbattlefield forums. The voice of in the video is not a terrorist - it is Trey Parker from the movie Team America World Police. The article also claims it is a mod created by terrorist. It is not a mod. It is the Special Forces Expansion pack that anyone can buy.

I knew there was something very familiar about the quote which was cited in the news article - “I was just a boy when the infidels came to my village in Blackhawk helicopters”. Here is the full quote from Team America:

Gary Johnston: I was just a boy when the infidels came to my village in their Blackhawk helicopters. The infidels fired at the oil fields and they lit up like the eyes of Allah. Burning oil rained down from the sky and cooked everything it touched. I could only hide myself and cry as my goats were consumed by the fiery black liquid death. In the midst of the chaos, I could swear that I heard my goats screaming for help. As quickly as they had come, the infidels were gone. It was on that day I put a jihad on them. And if you don’t believe it, then you’d better kill me now, because I’ll put a jihad on you, too.

Terrorist: I like you. You have balls. I like balls.

It is good to see such a well-researched story making it onto the pages of Yahoo, Washington Post, zdnet, and of course, the one and only Fox News. I have to agree with julieb that David Morgan is a horrible writer and should not be working for Reuters. In the wise words of Kim Jong Il: “Why is everyone so fucking stupid?”

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