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Link to Videogames for Homegrown Accused Terrorists

By pete_gallagher

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A report on NPR this morning about the two young New Jersey men arrested at New York's JFK airport as they attempted to travel to Somalia, with the alleged intent of joining a terrorist organization, piqued our interest because of the mention of videogames.

24-year old Carlos Eduardo Almonte and 20-year old Mohamed Mahmood Alessa were arrested and charged with trying to join the terrorist group al-Shabab. The pair apparently had no ties to the group and were traveling to Somalia, by way of Egypt, with the hopes that al-Shabab would welcome them into their organization.

A New York Daily News story on the two men reported that 'they often went to mall stores and played first-person-shooter computer games - assuming the terrorist role.'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on June 07, 2010 (boomark / email).

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