Islamists using US video games in youth appeal

[Highwayman]

Now isn’t this just peachy keen. Kind of gives the argument about violent video games a whole new twist.

The makers of combat video games have unwittingly become part of a global propaganda campaign by Islamic militants to exhort Muslim youths to take up arms against the United States, officials said on Thursday.

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

The games appear on militant Web sites, where youths as young as 7 can play at being troop-killing urban guerillas after registering with the site's sponsors.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060504/...ideogames_dc_4

Another part of the article caught my attention…..

Then came a recording of President George W. Bush's September 16, 2001, statement: "This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take a while." It was edited to repeat the word "crusade," which Muslims often define as an attack on Islam by Christianity.

Pay attention all of you Bush bashers and anti-war doomsayers.

All the negative talk about the war by your left-wing defeatist heroes can and will be used as propaganda and puts our troops at greater risk. We saw it happen with the BS John Kerry pulled thirty years ago and you can bet your butt it happens in this war. Stop aiding the enemy!