ABCnews take on Battlefield 2 "terrorist propaganda tool" video

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http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2105341

Kotaku said:
Jake Tapper's latest piece on Nightline does an excellent job of summarizing how idiotic the Pentagon looked when they mistook a bit of machinima for a terrorist training tool and showed it to the House Intelligence Committee.

Man, I hate when that happens.

Early in the story Tapper asks incredulously: Terrorists twisting an American video game into a Jhiadist training tool? And then proceeds to lay out how the whole thing happened, including getting an anonymous interview with the European gamer who created the now infamous "terrorist Battlefield" clip.

Interestingly, the Pentagon still claims that the machinima is being used by terrorists. Tapper calls bullshit on the excuse and tells the Pentagon talking head so. He then shows the video from the briefing proving that the Pentagon is full of it.
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http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/clips/nightline-on-terrorist-video-game-story-182678.php
 
The creator of the video said it perfectly himself:

Even a 10-year-old kid could have done a google search and found out what the video was and what it was intended to be.
 
Well, that's...um..interesting. Better stop playing BF2 then, eh? I'm evidently opposing the almighty US...(sarcasm) They've really got to improve their intelligence...or improve on their fear mongering. Could go either way.
 
Heh, hilarious. America can't stop amazing me with their crappy assumptions from their so called "experts".
 
Murray said:
Heh, hilarious. America can't stop amazing me with their crappy assumptions from their so called "experts".
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Hey hey hey. Let's be fair and careful with that wording. The AMERICAN GOVERNMENT...
 
It's really sad that these "experts" don't really know anything at all. The whole thing was stupid anyway. OMG, the terrorists are using video games to recruit! How despicable! *cough*america's army*cough*
 
Murray said:
Heh, hilarious. America can't stop amazing me with their crappy assumptions from their so called "experts".
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Yeah because a guy at the Pentagon = America or even the American Government as a whole for that matter.

I'm sure there are officers in the Pentagon laughing at it just the same.
 
it's a shame that the only thing we see of America is its administration
 
Murray said:
So called "experts".
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I have a feeling that most, if not all of these "experts" got their jobs through the "good-ole-boy" system. Basically the way the entire US federal government works, from what I hear. Its not what your qualifications are, its who you know!

RakuraiTenjin said:
I'm sure there are officers in the Pentagon laughing at it just the same.
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Maybe - but likely not publicly. Based on my experience in the military, there aren't very many officers (even that high up) that will publicly raise the BS flag, so the idiots that act like they know it all but don't keep on yammering, and the people that don't know any better keep on listening. Especially on stuff like this... they eat it up.
 
Ok, ok, I'm gonna be fair with the wording.
The AMERICAN TURDS!
 
RakuraiTenjin said:
Yeah because a guy at the Pentagon = America or even the American Government as a whole for that matter.
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The pentagon are the ones with the guns and missiles, bombs and soldiers though..
 
bliink said:
The pentagon are the ones with the guns and missiles, bombs and soldiers though..
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They ain't the only ones! C'mon, bliink. I'll show you my private stockpile.


(please don't eat me)
 
Well..time to go and join a terrorists organization....because I play battlefield 2. Look out USA, I'll see you on the fake, simulated, fun and laggy battlefield!
 
Steve said:
They ain't the only ones! C'mon, bliink. I'll show you my private stockpile.
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Thats hardly a weapon of mass destruction :rolleyes:
 
bliink said:
The pentagon are the ones with the guns and missiles, bombs and soldiers though..
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talking head at the pentagon != Every officer at the pentagon, either.
 
THIS MUST MEAN ALL OF AMERIKA IS STUPIDHEADS!




That's hilarious, though. Man, what idiots.
 
RakuraiTenjin said:
talking head at the pentagon != Every officer at the pentagon, either.
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I never said that, but still... I would expect the most level headed people in the military to be the ones at the pentagon, and that guy doesnt do them any favours.
 
Perhaps the pentagon was more worried about subliminal propagnda? Like, if you see a movie too many times, you begin to actually agree with what they say, even if its a shitty movie.


But I agree with
talking head at the pentagon != Every officer at the pentagon
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They should change the talking head.
 
Wow, I had just started a Game politicial general discussion thread just now. No replies yet though. But I still thank CptStern for spreading out the news.

Here is a latest news on the creator of the video Samir.

ABC's Nightline Mainstreams Pentagon Battlefield 2 Fiasco

It has been quite a day for video games on the tube.

Over coffee this morning we had Jack Thompson being Jack Thompson on CNBC's Squawk Box.

Then we howled as Jon Stewart flayed Congress over last week's video game hearings. And now the "Samir" story has gone mainstream, courtesy of ABC News and Nightline.

Who's Samir?

As reported last month by GamePolitics and Water Cooler Games, an important Congressional committee was wrongly told by employees of the Pentagon that a Battlefield 2 fan video was an insidious al Qaeda recruitment and propaganda tool.

In reality the video was cobbled together by a gamer named Samir, a Dutch citizen and BF2 devotee. GP's Colin McInnes scored the first interview with Samir (excerpts from which will appear in the upcoming issue of PC Gamer U.K.).

Late last month NPR picked up on the fiasco and now ABC's Jake Tapper has taken it to the masses with a terrific seven-minute expose on just how a Pentagon bureaucrat, prompted by a highly-paid defense contractor, managed to bungle this story.

Frankly, as a U.S. taxpayer, GP expects quite a bit more for the $7 million which the government paid to the contractor, Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC).

ABC interviews Samir on camera (but with the gamer's face hidden, see accompanying screen cap) as well as the Pentagon official who made the erroneous declarations to the House Select Intelligence Committee. It's definitely worth watching.
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bliink said:
I would expect the most level headed people in the military to be the ones at the pentagon, and that guy doesnt do them any favours.
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The exact same thing can be said of the White House too unfortunately...;(
 
Completely ridiculous, how good anyone be so stupid?

Obviously C&C:Red Alert is a terrorist training tool to breed a whole generation of military commanders to invade the U.S..

Now excuse me while I go kill some infidels.
 
Double_Blade said:
No replies yet though.
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This may be because you are posting fifty every day and flooding the Politics forum. Why don't you keep it to one thread called 'Gaming Controversy News'?
 
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