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Saw this on another site. Sounds rediculous to me, maybe we should ban video games!
Norway : Anders Behring Breivik used online war games as 'training'
Anders Behring Breivik emailed his extremist manifesto to a Dutchman he had met while playing an online computer war game that included scenes where players kill unarmed civilians.
Call of Duty was one of the games Anders Behring Breivik played Photo: AP Photo/Activision By Bruno Waterfield
4:26PM BST 26 Jul 2011
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Jeroen Rink received the email manifesto announcing Breivik's plan to carry out attacks last Friday just hours before the Norwegian killed 76 people.
He had regularly played the internet war games the Call of Duty and the World of Warcraft with the far-right mass killer before talking about politics.
Mr Rink told De Telegraaf newspaper that they found more than a shared interest in violent games after they discussed their mutual admiration for Geert Wilders, a popular Dutch anti-Islam politician.
"We talked about politics on occasion and I thought he was pretty radical," he said.
The Dutch man, 31, was horrified when he opened the email link and found terrorist bomb-making instructions and pictures of Breivik posing with weapons.
When he heard I had voted for Geert Wilders – he sent me a link. I only opened it this weekend and looked at it properly. Shocking. It contained loads of pages with propaganda, films and photos, including him, with guns," he said.
Tanguys Veys, a Belgian MP for the far-right, anti-Muslim Vlaams-Belang party, received a copy of the terrorist manifesto at 2.09pm on Friday, one hour and 17 minutes before Breivik's bomb exploded in Oslo.
Mr Veys said that the email, addressed to "Western European patriots", had been sent to 1,002 other people. "I estimate that between 10 and 20 addresses were Belgian. The rest were spread over Europe and the United States," he said.
"I expressly dissociate myself from this man. I suspect that my email address ending up on the list was related to publications about Islam."
In his 1,500-page manifesto, a European Declaration of Independence, Breivik described how he used Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to prepare for the attacks.
"I just bought Modern Warfare 2, the game," he wrote in the document. "It is probably the best military simulator out there and it's one of the hottest. I see MW2 more as part of my training-simulation than anything else."
The Modern Warfare game uses lifelike cinema quality graphics to take players through first-person scenarios which put them in the place of soldiers.
The most controversial is a sequence where the gamer must decide whether to kill unarmed civilians at a Russian airport in order to infiltrate a terrorist group.
The scenes are so shocking that Activision, the game's manufacturer, issued warnings and included "checkpoints" in the game to give players the chance to skip traumatic situations.
Norway : Anders Behring Breivik used online war games as 'training'
Anders Behring Breivik emailed his extremist manifesto to a Dutchman he had met while playing an online computer war game that included scenes where players kill unarmed civilians.
Call of Duty was one of the games Anders Behring Breivik played Photo: AP Photo/Activision By Bruno Waterfield
4:26PM BST 26 Jul 2011
5 Comments
Jeroen Rink received the email manifesto announcing Breivik's plan to carry out attacks last Friday just hours before the Norwegian killed 76 people.
He had regularly played the internet war games the Call of Duty and the World of Warcraft with the far-right mass killer before talking about politics.
Mr Rink told De Telegraaf newspaper that they found more than a shared interest in violent games after they discussed their mutual admiration for Geert Wilders, a popular Dutch anti-Islam politician.
"We talked about politics on occasion and I thought he was pretty radical," he said.
The Dutch man, 31, was horrified when he opened the email link and found terrorist bomb-making instructions and pictures of Breivik posing with weapons.
When he heard I had voted for Geert Wilders – he sent me a link. I only opened it this weekend and looked at it properly. Shocking. It contained loads of pages with propaganda, films and photos, including him, with guns," he said.
Tanguys Veys, a Belgian MP for the far-right, anti-Muslim Vlaams-Belang party, received a copy of the terrorist manifesto at 2.09pm on Friday, one hour and 17 minutes before Breivik's bomb exploded in Oslo.
Mr Veys said that the email, addressed to "Western European patriots", had been sent to 1,002 other people. "I estimate that between 10 and 20 addresses were Belgian. The rest were spread over Europe and the United States," he said.
"I expressly dissociate myself from this man. I suspect that my email address ending up on the list was related to publications about Islam."
In his 1,500-page manifesto, a European Declaration of Independence, Breivik described how he used Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to prepare for the attacks.
"I just bought Modern Warfare 2, the game," he wrote in the document. "It is probably the best military simulator out there and it's one of the hottest. I see MW2 more as part of my training-simulation than anything else."
The Modern Warfare game uses lifelike cinema quality graphics to take players through first-person scenarios which put them in the place of soldiers.
The most controversial is a sequence where the gamer must decide whether to kill unarmed civilians at a Russian airport in order to infiltrate a terrorist group.
The scenes are so shocking that Activision, the game's manufacturer, issued warnings and included "checkpoints" in the game to give players the chance to skip traumatic situations.
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