gamepolitics: Islamic Radicals Release "Night of Bush Capturing" Game

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gamepolitics) wrote,
@ 2006-09-18 08:36:00

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al qaeda, global islamic media front, islam, jihad, night of bush capturing, site institute, terrorism

Islamic Radicals Release "Night of Bush Capturing" Game

According to the terrorism trackers at the Site Institute, radical jihadists have released a new anti-American computer game.

Night of Bush Capturing is an first-person shooter based on the Quest for Saddam engine. The game features six levels with names such as "Jihad Beginning", "America's Hell" and "Bush Hunted Like a Rat". A soundtrack of Jihadist music loops during play.

The game was released on Friday by the Global Islamic Media Front, described by the Site Institute as "a jihadist mouthpiece". Site reports that an ad for Night of Bush Capturing says that the game is being distributed for "terrorist children".

Hot Air has links to a download of the game as well as a video trailer.

GP: As we described in recent coverage, this continues a jihadi trend to communicate radical Islamic themes through game technology.

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	goodrobotus 2006-09-18 01:23 pm UTC (link)
	Looks ok, if a little dated. If KumaWar can exist, then so can 'Night of Bush Capturing', even if does sound like the title of a new American Pie movie.... (Reply to this) (Thread)

nightwng2000
2006-09-18 02:32 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, the title makes it sound like something Hustler would include in one of their magazines.

Almost none of these message games, political/religious/whatever, catch my eye really. Left Behind's format looks interesting. But I haven't tried the demo yet. Forgot about it this weekend.

Still, everyone out there is definitely realizing that games are for more than just entertainment. The media is really catching on for wider uses. Ads, political messages, religious, even propaganda like this game.

nightwng2000
NW2K Software

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	thefremen 2006-09-19 12:46 am UTC (link)
	Exactly! It screams double entendre. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	grimm24 2006-09-18 02:16 pm UTC (link)
	Do Al Queda and other terrorist groups REALLY have people who can program games?!?! Either way the game looks like a piece of crap. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	gamepolitics 2006-09-18 02:21 pm UTC (link)
	yeah, I guess they do. I mean, why wouldn't they? games are made all over the world. As far as the look of the game, yeah. It looks like a cheezy mod based on an old engine. Then again, we're comparing it to the 2006 PC or Xbox 360 graphics that we're used to. Maybe it looks pretty good in less affluent areas of the Middle East. Dunno... (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	grimm24 2006-09-18 03:03 pm UTC (link)
	Like in that episode of Family Guy, where Brian and Stewie are in the Middle East and they are just getting into Rock music. lol (Reply to this) (Parent)

	jabrwock 2006-09-18 03:38 pm UTC (link)
	But IBM is using the same chips as in the PS3 to create a nuke-simulating supercomputer! It's the PS2 all over again, only it will be NK or Iran buying up all the consoles! Fear the shortage! :P (Reply to this) (Parent)

	turbinerocks 2006-09-18 09:49 pm UTC (link)
	Al Qaeda is not exactly an organized hierarchical group. You say you're Al Qaeda, presto, you're Al Qaeda. ;-) This notion that they're a great big monstrous organized syndicate rolling in money ala SPECTRE is nonsense perpetuated by the US Government. Gotta justify record spending somehow! (downloading game now. This should be a hoot) (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	uglyface2 2006-09-21 01:35 pm UTC (link)
	Al Qaeda is not the Earth Liberation Front. There is a structure to the organization not completely unlike organized crime syndicates, and there are ties between the central groups and the various member cells. Those not actually members do not have those connections; that's why they call themselves sympathizers. (Reply to this) (Parent)

looks like a cheezy Half-Life mod...

jabrwock
2006-09-18 03:37 pm UTC (link)

My guess, is that this is less to "train" "terrorist children", and more to get into the media, and scare parents.

What's a more powerful weapon than highjacking a plane? Making you fear your children...

Terrorists don't really want to kill you, that's a waste of resources. They want you to be paralysed by fear.

If you wake up every morning and think it could be your last, they've won.

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	Re: looks like a cheezy Half-Life mod... gamepolitics 2006-09-18 03:45 pm UTC (link)
	good points... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: looks like a cheezy Half-Life mod... silver_derstin 2006-09-18 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	The idea is then to have the terrorists wake up every morning knowing this will be their last, by countering games like those with great terrorism hunting games that will "train" children to become skilled soldiers. Oh wait... Video games can't train people to do anything. I forgot about that. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: looks like a cheezy Half-Life mod... slyfoxx 2006-09-18 06:16 pm UTC (link)
	But when they release crap like this and make you spray coffee onto your screen from laughing, they've failed. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: looks like a cheezy Half-Life mod... jabrwock 2006-09-18 07:17 pm UTC (link)
	But when they release crap like this and make you spray coffee onto your screen from laughing, they've failed. But we're not the targets remember. We laugh, but the soccer moms calling up their therapist because they're near a new nervous breakdown because they saw this on CBS? They're the ones that this is likely aimed at scaring. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: looks like a cheezy Half-Life mod... grls_r_gamers_2 2006-09-18 07:46 pm UTC (link)
	Did you do that? I did, only it was soda, and I turned my head so I didn't get it on the computer... ... But I got it on the dog ^^; (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	Re: looks like a cheezy Half-Life mod... brainswarm 2006-09-18 11:27 pm UTC (link)
	This is why I don't drink liquids while reading a Jack Thompson "Press Release." (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: looks like a cheezy Half-Life mod... brokenscope 2006-09-18 06:59 pm UTC (link)
	To defeat an enemy you must make fighting you so unpalatable that they agree to what ever terms you wish. You must make it so that fighting you is not worth it. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

Re: looks like a cheezy Half-Life mod...

jabrwock
2006-09-18 07:20 pm UTC (link)

To defeat an enemy you must make fighting you so unpalatable that they agree to what ever terms you wish. You must make it so that fighting you is not worth it.

You need to implement complete and utter eradication then, because anything short of that won't be ruthless enough to stop the survivors from doing what they can to enact revenge.

No matter how bad the penalty, there will always be someone who's willing to suffer it to accomplish their goal.

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	Re: looks like a cheezy Half-Life mod... brokenscope 2006-09-18 09:08 pm UTC (link)
	Exactly, that is why the idea of winning the "war on terror" is so stupid to me. We are not willing to do what would be nesscesary to defeat the enemy. There will always be "terrorists", all we can do is hamstring them, not defeat. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	lordtwinkie 2006-09-18 04:37 pm UTC (link)
	hmm seems to me in this war on terror the US military is at least winning on the pc gaming front USA!!! (Reply to this)

	thefremen 2006-09-18 04:59 pm UTC (link)
	For radical right wingers they sure do know how to use a double entendre. "Night of Bush capturing" indeed. Anyways, video games are the least of our worries, they've got the propaganda gig DOWN over there. (Reply to this)

	Perhaps the jihadists are onto something... hayabusa75 2006-09-18 07:18 pm UTC (link)
	...Americans paralyzed by hysterical fits of laughter probably ARE easier to kill. And is that supposed to be a picture of the Earth at the top? At first I thought it was a bloody disco ball. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: Perhaps the jihadists are onto something... terminator44 2006-09-20 10:54 am UTC (link)
	OH NOES! TeH terroists plan to kill us with disco dancing! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Oh boy... terminator44 2006-09-18 07:31 pm UTC (link)
	Another yawns shitty game made by fanatical Middle Eastern groups. I can yawns barely contain my excitment. ZZZzzzzzztttt. Seriously though, anything that could possibly be linked to Al-Queda usually gets headlines across the world. I wonder if this game will too? (Reply to this)

	mysticgamer 2006-09-18 08:40 pm UTC (link)
	This looks like it was programed for the Sega CD and I bet it plays like it too. (Reply to this)

	scazza 2006-09-18 08:53 pm UTC (link)
	Cool, in Iraq they have health packs that heals "jihadists" up instantly, damn those al quieda are so far ahead of us in medical science... Plus which war did the anti-americans use chainguns and recoiless grenade launchers that they could survive at point blank? When you die in game, do you ascend to the afterlife and greeted by 100 virgins? Or sent to the reload screen? heh. (Reply to this)

Sad part is.......

kurisu7885
2006-09-18 09:10 pm UTC (link)

with all the pilitical hooplah over "games and gamers are evil" and "think of teh children" then this is likely to do exactly as it was problably intended. And since it's painfully obvious most parents and politicians can't tell one game from the next, little johhny could be playing Half Life 2[noe like he should be in the first place] his mom could look at it and be lik "ZOMG, my little precious angel is training to be a terrorist. I need to get him back in his hamster ball or we'll be dead by morning!!!!11!1!11!1one!!!11"

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	i_love_catgirls 2006-09-18 10:21 pm UTC (link)
	Oh no! The terrorists have discovered the secret to winning any gunfight -- EXPLODING RED BARRELS. America is doomed. :( It's amazing how so many FPS conventions have made their way to Middle-Eastern radical culture. :P (Reply to this) (Thread)

	terminator44 2006-09-18 10:47 pm UTC (link)
	Well, that's the Middle East for ya. Always a decade behind. (Reply to this) (Parent)

nleseul
2006-09-19 12:37 am UTC (link)

It would be interesting to see what proportion of their download requests come from Western computers versus Middle Eastern computers.

Given the amount of anti-Bush sentiment that exists over here, I wouldn't be surprised if something like this is intended to market their message to the Western anti-war movement as much as to budding terrorists.

I also wonder if "Night of Bush Capturing" works nearly as well as a double entendre in Arabic.

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	i_love_catgirls 2006-09-19 01:29 am UTC (link)
	What could they call it? "The Hunt for Bush" "Let's Get Bush" Wait, wait... "Bushwhacker." :D (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	slyfoxx 2006-09-19 06:20 am UTC (link)
	"A Stone Cast for Islam is Worth Two in the Bush"? That didn't make sense? Exactly ^_^ (Reply to this) (Parent)

	goodrobotus 2006-09-19 06:55 pm UTC (link)
	Bush in Bondage? ...Actually, no... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	boffo97 2006-09-19 05:55 am UTC (link)
	Games can be programmed with anti-American messages! Ban all games now! In other news, writing implements and paper can be used to write anti-American messages! Ban writing implemenets and paper! (Reply to this)

	kickassgamer 2006-09-19 09:39 am UTC (link)
	Anybody else finding the al queda to use games as recruiting tool funny? I dont know why, But it is. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	terminator44 2006-09-19 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	Could have to do with the fact that the Taliban once banned video games. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	gamepolitics 2006-09-19 08:07 pm UTC (link)
	video games? Hell, the Taliban banned kite-flying, for goodness sakes. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	terminator44 2006-09-19 10:43 pm UTC (link)
	Good thing we put an end to them (mostly). Otherwise they might have outlawed breathing or blinking. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	axeman89 2006-09-20 01:49 am UTC (link)
	It's funny how even terrorist propaganda is subtitled in English. I must say, if the best maps they can design are worse then what I put together... (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	terminator44 2006-09-20 10:53 am UTC (link)
	Good to know that it sucked. Osama, if you're reading this, don't quit your day job. Your boys obviously don't know how to make quality games. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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