Way Radical, Dude

Radical Islamic organizations have developed video games that aim to kill US President Bush or rescue Iranian nuclear scientists from US Special Forces. For some Middle Easterners, the new games are a response to US Defense Department games that depict Muslims as military targets. But the Army Game Project denies that it focuses on any particular people or region. The free video games produced in the Middle East share the same tactics as violent wargames produced by the Pentagon. Both types are designed to inspire hatred in young adults, and only the villains are different. Despite poor sales of the terrorist games in the Middle East, a tit-for-tat approach in the gaming arena has generated a strange kind of dialogue in the cyber world and a rough attempt to influence history. – YaleGlobal