A video game designed in France has you assassinate the Lebanese Prime Minister in order to win the game!
PM Siniora sits up in his office in the opposition video game.
You also get a chance to kill the all of the fighters who belong to the government before you go for the prime minister.
Omar Raad at Ya Libnan reported:
Beirut & Paris - "Death to Siniora" was often shouted by pro-Syrian opposition protesters. One troubled supporter took the idea to an unthinkable extreme.The Lebanese government has launched an investigation into the video game it was announced last week.
Your mission in "The battle of the Sarai" is to assassinate every minister in the government, including Fouad Siniora, the Prime Minister of Lebanon.
The game was released in December 2006, however it did not catch the media's attention until Lebanese newspaper as-Safir carried a report on the game Wednesday, noting that it was designed in France by a Lebanese citizen who was identified by the code name of "Ziad al-Hajj".
In order to win in "The battle of the Serai", players must complete three chapters in the game - first kill the "militias", the term used by Hajj to describe Lebanon's national security forces, guarding the government building. Once inside the Grand Serail, players discover underground tunnels that lead to the U.S. Embassy in Awkar, 17 kilometers north of Beirut.
Having underground tunnels leading from the Lebanese government building to the U.S. Embassy echoes the accusations of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, who as repeatedly called the Siniora government "the Feltman Cabinet," in reference to the U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Jeffrey Feltman, whom he accuses of controlling the March 14 Majority that backs the government.
According to Hajj's blog, the second chapter of the game involves gunning down "the gang of 14, after they escape from the Sarai using the secret tunnels."
Attackers also fight a battle with what Hajj terms "militiamen" in the lobby, in reference to the fighters belonging to Walid Jumblat, Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea and Future Movement leader Saad Hariri, as well as Siniora himself.
The third and final chapter of the game involves storming the main hall, where Siniora is presiding over a meeting of his cabinet. The player is then required to murder what Hajj refers to as "all the traitors and thieves," in reference to the premiere and his ministers.
The game ends with the phrase: "Game over, congratulations" when the player succeeds in "liquidating" all those in the government compound.
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ReplyDeletePARDON MY FRENCH GP ET AL..
SICK F**KING WORLD!!
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[Beirut & Paris - "Death to Siniora" was often shouted by pro-Syrian opposition protesters. One troubled supporter took the idea to an unthinkable extreme.
Your mission in "The battle of the Sarai" is to assassinate every minister in the government, including Fouad Siniora, the Prime Minister of Lebanon.]
certainly not the first.. there have been many red flags that are ironically being dismissed due to PC.. just take a minute to think about who the targets of these incomprehensible sinister games are.. they are our most precious resource, the worlds most impressionable, namely our youth..
oh yes, Hitler is alive & well.. :(
WAKE UP THE HELL UP PEOPLE!!
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It is interesting to consider what the reaction would be if a video game was produced that instead of having one side depicted as generic "terrorists" they actually portrayed modern jihadies with some degree of accuracy. They could use cut scenes with actual quotes from real jihadies.
ReplyDeleteThe reaction would be one of outrage to the "Islamophobia" because the makers were portraying terrorists in a negative light. But making movies and video games calling for the assassination of democratically elected leaders is fine and even criticizing such projects is considered synonymous with censorship. All I can say is that if anyone is curious about the game you might want to get a pirated copy so that you don't find that your money has been used to enslave a people.
Overreach... The Lebanese "opposition" is increasingly desperate for a "breakthrough". In the meantime, its true colours are showing
ReplyDeleteShould anything happen to Siniora, or more likely to some Junior pro-government figure, people will know where to look, regardless of what the "investigations" reveal.
Anything could precipitate the country in "civil" war again. Luckily, there does not seem to be any budgets for it.
This is a dinky internet game that is not really being mass-produced. Small collectives of "semi-pro" gamers have been making games like this for years with all sorts of offensive themes (ie, play as the columbine shooters, etc.)
ReplyDeleteNote, though, that the Left Behind game (where you kill and convert thinly veiled [get it? veiled?] 'heathens') and, even moreso, the US Army game, where you kill scary A-rab terrorists, are major corporate products with wide distriution in retail stores. The Army game is even being used as a recruiting tool...
Maybe (like with owning nuclear weapons) you folks consider this a case of "ok when 'the west' does it, bad/scary when muslims do it"?
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ReplyDeleteSaladin
as usual you don't get it.. it's one thing to have a game that infers something, quite a different when names are literally assigned to the virtual characters..
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