Terrorists Use Video Game Mods to Recruit Youths

The War on Terror is being fought on more than the streets of Baghdad, but also on computer screens in the bedrooms of Islamic youths:

Tech-savvy militants from al-Qaeda and other groups have modified video war games so that US troops play the role of bad guys in running gunfights against heavily armed Islamic radical heroes, US Defence Department official and contractors told Congress.

The games appear on militant websites, where youths as young as seven can play at being troop-killing urban guerrillas after registering with the site’s sponsors.

“What we have seen is that any video game that comes out … they’ll modify it and change the game for their needs,” said Dan Devlin, a Defence Department public diplomacy specialist.

This really isn’t a surprisng inovation, but it does show the lengths that Islamic extremist are having to go to now in order to recruit more youths to waste their lives trying to stop democracy in Iraq, while the recruiters like Zarqawi roll in the dough and buying new tennis shoes.

I wonder if the anti-US hate groups in Korea like Hanchongryun or the Korean Federation of Trade Unions has thought about making a video game mod of the Battle of Pyeongtaek yet?