Radical, Powerful Iraqi Cleric is a Hardcore Gamer
Radical, Powerful Iraqi Cleric is a Hardcore Gamer
July 1, 2007
Muqtada al Sadr is a gamer?When he's not trying to consolidate his power, the radical Shi'ite cleric, best known for his virulent opposition to the American presence in Iraq, apparently kicks backs with video games, although it's unclear which games or systems he prefers.
How do we know?
GamePolitics gleaned the news from the current issue of Time (cover date July 9). In the mag, Joe Klein pens One Last Chance, a report on U.S. General David Petraeus and the state of the so-callled "surge" by American forces. While reading Klein's article, we were surprised to come across this:
But the most important man in Iraq is the other Shi'ite prince, Muqtada al Sadr, who is 33 and the nominal leader of the most powerful militia in the country, the Mahdi Army. Al-Sadr is often called mercurial - he's supposedly a fervent video game player - ...
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ZippyDSMlee: So bascily the 2 aprty setup is soemthign that has not evolved any....
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HarmlessBunny: Awww Jack is calling the Florida Bar: "The Florida Gay Bar". How mature! :D
HarmlessBunny: Awww Jack is calling the Florida Bar: "The Florida Gay Bar". How mature! :D
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Dark Sovereign: @Harmlessbunny: We in America have something like forty of those parties. We have 5 parties that actually produce prez candies
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Posted 08/27/08 at 12:53pm
sortableturnip: JT needs help from the ACLU here: http://jaablog.jaablaw.com/2008/08/27/the-name-game.aspx
sortableturnip: JT needs help from the ACLU here: http://jaablog.jaablaw.com/2008/08/27/the-name-game.aspx
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questionmark1987: SO at what point can webmasters start filing suit against Thompson for harrassment?
questionmark1987: SO at what point can webmasters start filing suit against Thompson for harrassment?
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HarmlessBunny: For EZK: http://jaablog.jaablaw.com/2008/08/26/whos-backing-who.aspx#comment-1316308
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sortableturnip: JT is threatening the webmaster at JAABlog, saying he changed a word in his post so that it was mispelled HA HA HA!
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Posted 08/27/08 at 10:42am
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Posted 08/27/08 at 09:04am
sqlrob: wehrgeist - there have been more WMDs found in Tyler , Texas than Iraq
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Azhrarn: So they have been effectively 2-party for a century now. (not counting coalitions of all parties)
Azhrarn: So they have been effectively 2-party for a century now. (not counting coalitions of all parties)
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He's probably into Prince of Persia(iran/iraq).
remember the hysteria a few years ago when the iraqi's bought 4000 ps2's
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=21118
£20 on Ninendogs and/or Animal Crossing :P
So if they don't have anything that has meaning to say, don't say it. It only shame your "The King of Kings and the Lord of Lords" or should I say, "The Liar of Liars and the Joker of Jokers". After all, Jesus hates me.
He also likes to play the odd game of Counterstrike too, although be advised that the last wallhacking bitchz0r who headshotted him on dust2 was later found face down in a Baghdad parking lot with less kneecaps than he started with.
But perhaps Sadr's a fervent fan of casual video games? There's a ton of them on the web, and even the supposedly "non-gamer" crowd plays them habitually.
This looks like the kinda bullshit people like to use to lump videogamers in with terrorists.
a 'Water Drinker'. Other facts about this guy that
are obviously caused him to be a terrorist.
Surprisingly their games feature very little about the 'west', there's one that tells the fictional story of a young Israeli (or Palestinian, I always confuse the two) boy, that takes up arms against... who ever it is that they're in a piss about lately.
Then again, solitaire translates quite easily.
Burnout???
Mario Kart??? His favorite item would be the bomb-omb...
Oh god, me and my horrible jokes are going to hell...
Still, I prefer the GTA player from Baghdad this site profiled a few months back.
http://gamepolitics.com/2007/01/11/580/#comments
Wow, he does not age well.
im sure it would be almost as helpful to the industry as announcing the colombine kids played videogames.
I probably should edit that out to be more clear.
Not really. You find contradictions to the hatred of the West all over what these organizations do. Groups like Al Queda embrace the Internet, for example, in spreading their ideals. They post videos of their hostages on the Internet. And at the same time, they hate the West.
As with any group with political foundations, there are double standards abound.
"he’s supposedly a fervent video game player - but the the evidence says otherwise…"
This means it may not be true, especially since the line "evidence says otherwise". Means he's probably a casual gamer (one who plays solitaire or those terrorist created flash games just for kicks. Like "Whack the Bush")
http://entertainment.msn.com/news/article.aspx?news=267474>1=10150
Captain America's Death. (which would probably be retconned soon. Mark my words)
In his mind, I guess its OK if he plays them- just like how these radical leaders have no problem strapping bombs to their youths but never having the balls to do it themselves...
I wonder if Fox News (or another sensationalist news organization) will spin this into an anti-game story.
or better yet, Insurgents.
Is on h4x!
because there to busy gettign laid and smoking a joint,while the US fundies gather power and raid other countries for kicks 0-o
tempo
4000 sounds like enough for all the rich and there,its like "US gov:ZOMG they are goign to build nukes with it..."Iraq:are you kidding it would void the warranty,do you know the shipping cost of getting it replaced!!!"
LOL
Counter Strike...
I met him the other day, he wiped our raid :(
Blamed the Coalition government cos they hacked his ISP.
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