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Pakistani merchants ban videogames for portraying country as terrorist breeding ground
Long War Journal ^ | January 26, 2013 | By Bill Roggio

Posted on 01/29/2013 1:42:14 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

Pakistan's electronic entertainment association has ordered merchants to pull the video games Call of Duty and Medal of Honor as the games "unfairly depict the country as a breeding ground for excessive violence, and where security forces have ties to al Qaeda," Al Jazeera reports.

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why the makers of Call of Duty and Medal of Honor would portray Pakistan in such a light. After all, Pakistan is the country where Osama bin Laden lived for 10 years after 9/11, the last six of them in a massive complex just outside of Abbottabad, Pakistan's version of West Point. Pakistani security forces were somehow unable to find him in the closed, garrison city, and yet the CIA and US Navy SEALs could. But Pakistan was able to jail a doctor who helped the US track down and kill bin Laden.

Without Pakistan's provision of a safe haven for the Afghan Taliban, the group would have been incapable of maintaining an effective insurgency that held off the NATO Coalition for 11 years. And Pakistan has further undermined the Coalition's effort in Afghanistan by choking off its critical supply line for months at a time.

Meanwhile, Pakistan's military and Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate shelter and coddle the so-called "good Taliban," such as the Haqqani Network, and the Hafiz Gul Bahadar and Mullah Nazir groups. . .

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1 posted on 01/29/2013 1:42:19 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Of Course, video games are fantasy, right? :)


2 posted on 01/29/2013 1:43:38 PM PST by vet7279
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To: Brad from Tennessee
How bout some Nasty Meds?
3 posted on 01/29/2013 1:51:04 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Brad from Tennessee

SILENCE!

I KILL YOU!


4 posted on 01/29/2013 1:58:21 PM PST by servo1969
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To: Brad from Tennessee

What if the Germans or Japs applied the same standards?


5 posted on 01/29/2013 2:14:43 PM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (What word begins with "O" and ends in economic collapse?)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

The truth is embarrassing, isn’t it?


6 posted on 01/29/2013 2:37:32 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

"We DEMAND Call of Duty!"

7 posted on 01/29/2013 2:51:46 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Of the government, by the government, and for the government.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Nope! No terror here....

8 posted on 01/29/2013 2:54:54 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Of the government, by the government, and for the government.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

9 posted on 01/30/2013 7:18:35 AM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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