Most powerful Iraq leader was a hard-core gamer?
Category: Industry, Posted: 04/11/2008 at 03:02PM CDT by Frank Ling, Editorial Director
Gaming reaches people of all classes, cultures, and creeds. You can also add to this list the political and religious categories.
GamePolitics reports that one particular individual, Muqtada al-Sadr, is a hard-core gamer. Al-Sadr earned the nickname of Mullah Atari while he was a student of religion in Iraq.
"As a young seminary student, his nickname was Mullah Atari, because he preferred video games to studying the Quran. Now, Muqtada al-Sadr is a radical cleric revered by millions of poor Shiites as a modern-day Robin Hood. He also may be the most powerful man in Iraq."
USA Today said, "He says defeating the United States in Iraq is his top priority, but his cease-fire and other political maneuvering helped the U.S. military accomplish some of its key objectives, such as reducing violence and passing benchmark legislation."
So who knows, maybe what the US can't accomplish in diplomatic talks with Iraq might be successfully done by just a few chat conversations over Xbox Live on CoD4 one day.
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you learn something strangely irrelavantly fabulously oddly intriguingly weird every day.
Although i must say that using Microsoft or Sony doesn'y really have the same ring to it as Atari...
USA Today said, "He says defeating the United States in Iraq is his top priority, but his cease-fire and other political maneuvering helped the U.S. military accomplish some of its key objectives, such as reducing violence and passing benchmark legislation."
Maybe after playing Socom, COD4, Gost Recon 2, or other of the like, he decided to do an actual assessment of America's military might. His top advisors told him "fighting the US is suicide. Maybe we can just find a way to make a government of our like in the long run. Have you ever seen an F-22? And neither will our pilots. Just the (eject warning)."
or maybe he's using it to get (partly) decent intel on american hardware and things...
but other than the death to america thing... this story rules...