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US video game inspired Moscow airport attack?
Moscow: Russian media has pointed out the similarities between the bloody scenes depicted in a popular US video game with attack at Domodedovo International Airport, sparking a heated debate on the content of the game. The bloody scenes of the Moscow attack are reminiscent of what can be seen in an year-old video game, the scenario of which controversially involves a character urged to kill civilians in an imaginary Russian airport, a TV channel said. The blast at Domodedovo Airport has sparked hot debate on the stuff of a popular American video game ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’, sold worldwide. “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has become a shocking reality,” English language Russia Today TV noted. Earlier last year several Duma members had asked the ban on the video game in Russia and in just a few months, its sales surpassed $1 billion worldwide. In the mission dubbed “No Russian” the player goes on a terrorist rampage, helping to massacre civilians in a fictitious Moscow airport. It may have seemed too tragic ever to come true. But far-fetched it is not, for the events at Domodedovo International Airport are very real indeed. Thirty-five people have been killed, and over 180 injured in what investigators believe was a terrorist attack committed by a suicide bomber inside the international arrivals of Russia’s busiest airport. As for the video game scenario, it appears a lot more people have been involved in the violence. AGENCIES ‘Bombers were trained in Pak’ The suicide bombers who carried out the Moscow airport attack were probably part of a suicide squad trained in Pakistan’s al-Qaida strongholds. A newspaper published a warning issued in December to the Moscow police, which said there was credible intelligence that a suicide squad was headed to Moscow, The Telegraph reported. The memo said the team had spent time in Pakistan and Iran. ANI Medvedev fires police chief In the wake of the deadly bombing of Russia’s busiest airport, President Dmitry Medvedev fired a top official of the country’s transport police and lashed out at “passive’’ officers who guard the country’s transport centers. Medvedev did not specify the reasons for dismissing major general Andrei Alexeyev, head of the transport police for the Russian region that includes Moscow. But he did criticize transport police in general. AP
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Moscow: Russian media has pointed out the similarities between the bloody scenes depicted in a popular US video game with attack at Domodedovo International Airport, sparking a heated debate on the content of the game. The bloody scenes of the Moscow attack are reminiscent of what can be seen in an year-old video game, the scenario of which controversially involves a character urged to kill civilians in an imaginary Russian airport, a TV channel said. The blast at Domodedovo Airport has sparked hot debate on the stuff of a popular American video game ‘Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’, sold worldwide. “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has become a shocking reality,” English language Russia Today TV noted. Earlier last year several Duma members had asked the ban on the video game in Russia and in just a few months, its sales surpassed $1 billion worldwide. In the mission dubbed “No Russian” the player goes on a terrorist rampage, helping to massacre civilians in a fictitious Moscow airport. It may have seemed too tragic ever to come true. But far-fetched it is not, for the events at Domodedovo International Airport are very real indeed. Thirty-five people have been killed, and over 180 injured in what investigators believe was a terrorist attack committed by a suicide bomber inside the international arrivals of Russia’s busiest airport. As for the video game scenario, it appears a lot more people have been involved in the violence. AGENCIES ‘Bombers were trained in Pak’ The suicide bombers who carried out the Moscow airport attack were probably part of a suicide squad trained in Pakistan’s al-Qaida strongholds. A newspaper published a warning issued in December to the Moscow police, which said there was credible intelligence that a suicide squad was headed to Moscow, The Telegraph reported. The memo said the team had spent time in Pakistan and Iran. ANI Medvedev fires police chief In the wake of the deadly bombing of Russia’s busiest airport, President Dmitry Medvedev fired a top official of the country’s transport police and lashed out at “passive’’ officers who guard the country’s transport centers. Medvedev did not specify the reasons for dismissing major general Andrei Alexeyev, head of the transport police for the Russian region that includes Moscow. But he did criticize transport police in general. AP
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1 comments:
Usually games are made keeping the above discussed scenarios in view. Consider the latest FIFA game, lot of people in the institute play. When the same people play football in the play field i do not think they would try to emulate their favorite player Messi on the field. In fact the game is made to resemble real situations, so this point of view requires more thought.
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