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Bin Laden Was A Gamer

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/osama-bin-laden-gamer-cia-202024406.html

Osama bin Laden may have played you in Counter-Strike.

The 9/11 mastermind's gaming habits came out of the box in a massive trove of CIA documents released Wednesday. The files show that the Al-Qaeda leader, who was killed in a 2011 raid after years in hiding, spent his time watching Disney movies, writing in a journal and playing several popular video games.

His game stash included Half-Life, Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy VII and several Dragon Ball Z titles. He also played Counter-Strike, a multiplayer game in which a team of militants take hostages while counterterrorism authorities try to stop the attack. The documents don't say which team bin Laden preferred to play.

The files also show bin Laden used Steam, a popular gaming platform and community used to manage live games like Counter-Strike and talk with other gamers.
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Um. Wow.
 
Hmmm. So the guy with the thick Middle Eastern accent screaming over voicechat about how he violated my mother could very well have been Osama bin Laden.
 
yeah he was the gamer, but i think they are big gamers who made bin ladans for their profit.
 
I thought the compound didn't have internet. How did he play online? Or am I misremembering that bit of information?
 
Skeptic Bob said:
I thought the compound didn't have internet. How did he play online? Or am I misremembering that bit of information?
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Considering he had to do this to send emails-

https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/05/ap_how_osama_bin_laden_emailed.php
Holed up in his walled compound in northeast Pakistan with no phone or Internet capabilities, bin Laden would type a message on his computer without an Internet connection, then save it using a thumb-sized flash drive. He then passed the flash drive to a trusted courier, who would head for a distant Internet cafe.

At that location, the courier would plug the memory drive into a computer, copy bin Laden’s message into an email and send it. Reversing the process, the courier would copy any incoming email to the flash drive and return to the compound, where bin Laden would read his messages offline.
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-I don't know how in the **** he was able to play online.
 
PoS said:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/osama-bin-laden-gamer-cia-202024406.html



Um. Wow.
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I actually knew about the counter strike thing long before the cia ever released it, the others not so much. Al quaeda the taliban etc used counter strike as a training tool for developing tactics for combat, and ever bazaar in afghanistan had pirated copies of the game, usually the only game they sold other than random sega genesis carts(the sega carts were used for ied's)
 
Skeptic Bob said:
I thought the compound didn't have internet. How did he play online? Or am I misremembering that bit of information?
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You can play counterstrike and many other multiplayer games through lan party.
 
He was a gamer, but he only played that one Call of Duty level where the terrorists shoot up the airport, on the easiest level. It gave him wood every time.
 
beerftw said:
I actually knew about the counter strike thing long before the cia ever released it, the others not so much. Al quaeda the taliban etc used counter strike as a training tool for developing tactics for combat, and ever bazaar in afghanistan had pirated copies of the game, usually the only game they sold other than random sega genesis carts(the sega carts were used for ied's)
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No wonder they were able to always drop those smoke grenades just right in blind throws.

Mattis' first command upon being named SecDef was to "push long A".
 
So there are kids out there who owned Bin Laden in Counter Strike and never knew it.
 
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