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Idiot Calls In Bomb Threat To Imitate Video Game
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Bomb threats are never fun; they scare the living daylights out of people and create massive delays at airports. One Chinese gamer thought it would be fun to imitate the plot of a video game and decided to issue a false bomb threat against Shanghai’s Pudong International Airport.
Norway Mass Killer May Be Declared Insane
Confessed mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik was legally insane when he killed nearly 80 people, many children, during a bombing and shooting rampage in Norway in July, according to a psychiatric evaluation ordered by the court, the Associated Press reports.
Tweet About Bunch Of Heroes Or This Indie Dev Dies!
I think this is a marketing stunt. I don’t think they’re really going to kill Daniel Benmergui if we don’t collectively talk about Bunch of Heroes.
CONFIRMED: Osama Bin Laden Is Dead
Twitter is freaking out right now over news that Osama bin Laden is dead. Jill Jackson, a producer for CBS News, seems to have broken the story on her feed. President Obama has called a news conference…Developing.… [Gawker]
Wikileaks Reveals Al Qaeda Used Sega Cartridges For Explosives
Newly released documents from Wikileaks related to Guantánamo Bay prisoners have an unusual video game connection. According to the Department of Defense’s assessment records for Guantánamo detainees Hassan Mohammed Ali Bin Attash and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed—who confessed to masterminding the 9/11 terrorist attacks—Al Qaeda once used Sega cartridges as explosives devices.
Man Accused Of Exporting PS2s To Fund Hezbollah
Federal authorities say a Florida man exported PS2s to a Paraguayan shopping centre believed to be a front for the terrorist organisation Hezbollah. He’s been indicted on 11 counts tied to the funding of terrorism.
