14 DAY TRIAL // Games nowadays are being used in a variety of ways, seemingly unrelated to the original purpose of entertaining, thus it was only a matter of time until they could have been shaped into propaganda tools. Controversial games already deal with taboo themes, like the homemade Columbine Massacre role playing game or the John F. Kennedy assassination FPS featuring Lee Harvey Oswald. It went so far that the Chinese Communist Party financed a World War II MMORPG where participants kill off the Japanese enemy in total war. SITE Institute (Search for International Terrorist Entities) draws attention on "Night of Bush Capturing", yet another title on the hot topic of terrorism.
Described by SITE as a "terrorist mouthpiece", The Global Islamic Media Front recently released a video trailer and in-game action images. According to the advertisement, this game was made for and aims to be distributed to "terrorist children", since the openly admitted goal is to track and hunt down a character representing President George W. Bush. The six levels are suggestively named: "Jihad Beginning," American's Hell," and "Bush Hunter like a Rat," with traditional jihadist songs playing in the background. SITE comments that the PC game is a modified version of an older title, "Quest for Saddam", which was released soon after the US invaded Iraq in 2003.
Starting level one, players move around an American military camp, where one can see various pictures depicting: Bush, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, British Prime Minister Tony Blair or Iraqi Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Armed with only an assault rifle (Kalashnikov anyone?) the main goal relies on your avatar gaining sufficient ammo and better weapons like shotguns, grenade launchers and machine guns. Once fully equipped, you can engage the final boss in a gun battle, none other than Rambo's avatar himself - George W. Bush. Once the game is bested, "Takbir (Allahu Akbar)" is shouted, for the deed to be received in good faith.