WoW Trains Terrorists According To Australian Security Chief

Dark Drakan · 08-05-2007, 12:44 PM

Seems theres another crazy claim being made about the games industry and it doing bad thing, this time its the Australian Security Chief. He believes that the hugely popular online role playing game World Of Warcraft is being used to train terrorists.

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Originally Posted by Kevin Zuccato

Terrorists are being trained in games such as World of Warcraft to scout out simulated real-world environments, and train in weapons that are "identical to real-world armaments. Terrorists no longer have to travel to the target they want to attack to carry out reconnaissance, but create a virtual replica and rehearse an entire attack online. We need to start thinking about living, working and protecting two worlds and two realities.

Read Whole Article Here:

PC World of Warcraft trains terrorists! - CVG.com

Angel · 08-05-2007, 12:56 PM

It's official. The world has gone mad.

I'm waiting for the nutjobs to start saying Harry Potter games encourage children to kill each other with curses, personally....

Dark Drakan · 08-05-2007, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Angel

It's official. The world has gone mad.

I'm waiting for the nutjobs to start saying Harry Potter games encourage children to kill each other with curses, personally....

Harry Potter was attacked a while ago and people said that it glorified black magic and witchcraft and should be banned

Small example: Harry Potter good or bad?

Angel · 08-05-2007, 01:12 PM

People are dumb- and I kinda guessed shortly after posting that it probably already had happened

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Now, I've never played WoW so can't comment on gameplay, but if you're going down that route you may as well ban everything from games to TV. Hey, ban The Wombles because it encourages children to drop litter in the hope that they might catch sight of Orinoco one early morning...

If people want to train to be terrorists, they can go to Totteridge Drive in High Wycombe and visit the rooms above the cash and carry...instead of blaming a game, of all things, they could devote their time and energy to refining actual terrorism intelligence, booting out people who try to train others to make bombs and stop blaming everyone else for what is essentially a story of two sides...

Rhadiel · 08-05-2007, 02:58 PM

ur right...the world has gone mad...

andythegill · 08-05-2007, 03:12 PM

thats retarded seriously the accusations on games are getting worse

HodgePodge · 08-05-2007, 04:07 PM

/me thought I had lost all faith in the world. I was wrong. Now I have lost all faith in the world.

Dark Drakan · 08-05-2007, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by HodgePodge

/me thought I had lost all faith in the world. I was wrong. Now I have lost all faith in the world.

Anyone want to take a guess at whats going to be said next? Mario is offensive to plumbers and Italians maybe?

andythegill · 08-05-2007, 04:09 PM

next it will be "scouts, trains spies for the KGB"
or "teletubbies encourages suicide bombings"

Tsuyu · 08-05-2007, 04:23 PM

Teletubbies has actually also had it's fair share of bashings - the guy who plays the purple one is *deep southren voice*a homosexual!

Tons of mad parents/church people/random nutjobs there, to say the least.

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Originally Posted by Kevin Zuccato

Terrorists are being trained in games such as World of Warcraft to scout out simulated real-world environments, and train in weapons that are "identical to real-world armaments. Terrorists no longer have to travel to the target they want to attack to carry out reconnaissance, but create a virtual replica and rehearse an entire attack online. We need to start thinking about living, working and protecting two worlds and two realities.

Oh yeah. Every run-of-the-mill terrorist carries around epic High Warlord gear. And it really grinds my gears, 'cus it makes them so damn over-powered.

Rhadiel · 08-05-2007, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Tsuyu

Teletubbies has actually also had it's fair share of bashings - the guy who plays the purple one is *deep southren voice*a homosexual!

Tons of mad parents/church people/random nutjobs there, to say the least.

Oh yeah. Every run-of-the-mill terrorist carries around epic High Warlord gear. And it really grinds my gears, 'cus it makes them so damn over-powered.

im guessing u play WoW?

Dark Drakan · 08-05-2007, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Tsuyu

Oh yeah. Every run-of-the-mill terrorist carries around epic High Warlord gear. And it really grinds my gears, 'cus it makes them so damn over-powered.

As CVG said:

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Originally Posted by CVG

MET police - there's your tip off then. Look out for religious extremists on flying mounts coming our way.

andythegill · 08-05-2007, 04:25 PM

now i just thought of something... terrorists know where trolls, orcs elves and all those creature are? there all high..dude is that a dwarf
NO IM JUST SMALL

Tsuyu · 08-05-2007, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Lucien

im guessing u play WoW?

I did. Way before the Burning Crusade, way before it went down the crapper. Some months/a year before the BC it started to go down the crapper, and the BC just killed it for me.

But it was one helluva ride whilst it lasted.

Seigfreid · 08-07-2007, 03:44 PM

Ok, you all need to calm down and take another look at this article. I can see plain and clearly that there is no blame on video games. He has only stated that he believes Abdul and lackies are using the MMO for tactical training. He hasn't stated, however, made blames or insults towards the game and anything related. In fact, he clearly states something positive(somewhat):

"We need to start thinking about living, working and protecting two worlds and two realities."

Now if that's something negative, then I'd hate to see what's positive. I know that blaming games doth enrage thee, but try not to mouth off unless you really know what's going on. Of course, now that he has stated this, there will be ****s trying to work to ban games at a greater rate. So I'll admit, this is going to lead to some painful results.