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Terrorists Using Call of Duty To Plot Attacks

Posted on Tuesday, March 20 @ 08:35:06 Eastern by Anthony Severino

It's Friday night, and you and a few pals have teamed up to play Call of Duty together online. In the lobby, you plan out a strategy for attack. Meanwhile, terrorists are doing the exact same thing, except they're plotting against real-world targets.

Or so claims UK Newspaper, The Sun.

The Sun says that terrorists, knowing that phone lines and internet messages can be tapped by authorities, have turned to their PlayStations and Xboxes, namely Call of Duty (although they mention Medal of Honor and Halo, too), to chat and plan out attacks. The Sun continues, claiming that Jihadists could be using Call of Duty as a training sim much like they've used flight simulators in the past.

This all sounds like a load of bollocks, but realistically, if they're using normal COD lingo, it could be easy to hide the fact that they're actually terrorists.

Fear not, though. The Sun also says that the CIA and other security operatives are already keen to these methods and have been monitoring activity. So, be careful what all you non-terrorist gamers say while in Call of Duty lobbies.

Tell GR: Is there any truth to this? Can you see Call of Duty being used as such a tool for terrorism? Or is this a a tabloid story created to stir the pot?

Related Games: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Tags: Call of Duty

Comments

tinymhg
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Mar 20th, 2012 at 9:39 am
COD isn't that the game where 11 year-olds scream obscenities at you?

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MasterRabbi
Joined: May 2007

Posted: Mar 20th, 2012 at 9:42 am
Must be pretty demoralizing to find out the West wins at the end of the game no matter how many cities are nuked...

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Jessica_Vazquez
Joined: Sep 2010

Posted: Mar 20th, 2012 at 10:11 am
If online COD players are what their image of America is based on, I'm not surprised they want to blow us up.

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Noritama
Joined: Feb 2012

Posted: Mar 20th, 2012 at 10:25 am
Can I use my top gun footage for my air force training videos?

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Dolive90
Joined: Oct 2011

Posted: Mar 20th, 2012 at 10:57 am
Just to let anyone outside of the UK know, the Sun is a joke of a newspaper, its main selling points are the boobs on page three and it's constant drive to create peado-mania throughout the UK. (along with phone hacking of course)

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Chunibrow
Joined: Mar 2010

Posted: Mar 20th, 2012 at 8:24 pm
Newspapers in Canada don't have boobs :(

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Falx
Joined: Jul 2011

Posted: Mar 20th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
I think if this was really true, we would have saw way more insurgents dual wielding lever action shotguns in iraq and afghanistan. Hopefully they don't actually learn how to real life quick scope.

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Masterwabbit
Joined: Mar 2009

Posted: Mar 20th, 2012 at 5:00 pm
The thought of these insurgents attempting 360 no scopes in real life makes me laugh a little inside.

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