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The Lounge => Wikkity! => Topic started by: GerbilSoft on November 03, 2008, 04:48:00 pm

Title: Al Qaeda Suspects "Making Detonators Out Of Sega Cartridges"
Post by: GerbilSoft on November 03, 2008, 04:48:00 pm

http://kotaku.com/5075231/al-qaeda-suspects-making-detonators-out-of-sega-cartridges

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So it's true - there really is a link between violence and video games. In an otherwise run of the mill article on how the next US President will have to deal with the issue of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the New York Times printed this little nugget:

    One detainee is said to have been schooled in making detonators out of SEGA game cartridges.

Nobody at Kotaku (especially those who frequently travel overseas) has any idea if that is even possible, or why SEGA specifically, but the story seems to originate from the case of Hassan Bin Attash - a seventeen year old (at time of capture) detainee that several human rights organisations claim was tortured in Jordan before being held in Gitmo. Possibly, after a few months of waterboarding a weaponized copy of Toe Jam & Earl: Panic on Funkotron might seem more credible.

Gives a whole new meaning to "Blast Processing".

Title: Re: Al Qaeda Suspects "Making Detonators Out Of Sega Cartridges"
Post by: Azure on November 03, 2008, 08:25:01 pm

What a pun, GS.

Actually, that's quite interesting. Gives me some ideas...


Perhaps I've said too much.

Title: Re: Al Qaeda Suspects "Making Detonators Out Of Sega Cartridges"
Post by: P.P.A. on November 04, 2008, 09:32:45 am

GS stole that pun from me. in fact.
If it wasn't so irrelevant I'd get the chatlog.