{"id":2436,"date":"2011-01-26T11:06:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T19:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=2436"},"modified":"2011-01-26T11:06:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T19:06:32","slug":"russian-tv-connects-modern-warfare-2-and-actual-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/01\/26\/russian-tv-connects-modern-warfare-2-and-actual-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian TV connects Modern Warfare 2 and actual terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"2436\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CODMW2_Moscow_bombing.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CODMW2_Moscow_bombing.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"CODMW2_Moscow_bombing\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CODMW2_Moscow_bombing.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/CODMW2_Moscow_bombing-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A New York Times blog <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/25\/russian-media-points-to-moscow-airport-attack-in-u-s-video-game\/\">reports<\/a> Russian television making a connection between the bombing at the Moscow Airport and Modern Warfare 2&#8217;s infamous &#8220;No Russian&#8221; mission (pictured).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Russia Today, a government-financed satellite channel, broadcast a report that mixed footage of the aftermath of the attack with gory scenes from a video game, &#8220;Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2,&#8221; which allows players to take part in a terrorist attack on a Russian airport.<\/p>\n<p>Russia Today&#8217;s report, which emphasized that the video game was made by Americans, included an interview with Walid Phares, a Fox News terrorism analyst, who suggested that terrorists might be using virtual games like this one to train for real attacks. &#8220;I think those who have been radicalized already &#8212; let&#8217;s suppose in this case jihadists, Al Qaeda or [some] other kind &#8212; they look at the games and say these games will serve them to train,&#8221; Mr. Phares said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, it looks like New York Times writer Robert Mackey knows his videogames.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The report asserts that the suicide bombing on Monday &#8220;mirrors&#8221; the video game&#8217;s scenario. In fact, the game dramatizes a commando raid on a Moscow airport that much more closely resembles the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russian TV connects Modern Warfare 2 and actual terrorism - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/01\/26\/russian-tv-connects-modern-warfare-2-and-actual-terrorism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Russian TV connects Modern Warfare 2 and actual terrorism - 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