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[ehead]

I guess anime really was a mistake. Include videogames too.

9-11 mastermind and nominal Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in May 2011 during a raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. A massive amount of intelligence was seized during the raid, including hundreds of thousands of files stored on Bin Laden's hard drive. Today, the CIA released nearly 470,000 of those files, and it turns out that not only was he the world's most infamous terrorist, he also had a thing for retro-gaming and anime.

The archive has been conveniently divided into four categories—audio, documents, images, and video—but is nonetheless a massive thing to dig through. But if you're willing, it's all there: Images of everything from Pac-Man to Perestroika Girls, including both title and gameplay screens. A lot of it is the sort of digital detritus you inevitably pick up while surfing the web, banners for Irish betting sites and pictures of Whitney Houston, and of course there are photos of guns and potential targets and what I assume are terrorist training videos. But there's also a full-length copy of the Street Fighter 4: The Ties That Bind anime film in there, too—subtitled in Arabic, of course.

Please note that they have quoted a twitter account which has an NSFW image. To read more about the story, click here.

 

[Battlechili]

why is his taste in anime so bad

 

[plasmasd]

I guess the world will never know what he thinks of the ff7 remake.

 

[SoulUnison]

why is his taste in anime so bad

Shit, there were already 4 Naruto movies 10 years ago?
Were any of them ever actually any good? I remember catching the last half of the very first one on TV once and going "Eh, I'm good, thanks."

 

[consoul]

He had the entire Devil May Cry anime series. Hahaha.

In other news, I understand Hitler was a big fan of 999: Zero Escape.

 

[Yu Furealdo]

Notice me, Osampei.

 

[sld]

In other news, I understand Hitler was a big fan of 999: Zero Escape.

OK, this really got to me, lol!

 

[bobawesome]

100% of terrorists drink water and breathe oxygen. Ban both.

 

[michaelius]

What was his neogaf name?

 

[k91191]

Final Fantasy ViI

a game about terrorists

 

[_Aaron_]

Which website will post an article on "Video games lead to acts of terrorism!" first?

 

[Spukc]

I lost it at final fantasy 7 xD

 

[In Service]

What was his neogaf name?

Well done. You win.

 

[Noboru Wataya]

Didn’t read the article yet, didn’t they recruit children? Could this stuff not be used as reward materials or recruiting incentives?

 

[Hoshigumi]

The hard drive betrays all.

 

[ehead]

Didn’t read the article yet, didn’t they recruit children? Could this stuff not be used as reward materials or recruiting incentives?

Spoiler

I'm so sorry if anyone found this offensive. Please don't ban me.

 

[Haano]

Can anyone get a full list of all the files? I reckon these documents are fake and they planted stuff there that didn't even exist then

 

[norinrad]

I guess the world will never know what he thinks of the ff7 remake.

lol

 

[Hoya Destroyer]

If Osama played CoD, would he have hated not getting allocated to the terrorist team?

 

[SkateorDi3]

Just another tick for the "anime was a mistake" box.

 

[Ostrava04]

Shit, there were already 4 Naruto movies 10 years ago?
Were any of them ever actually any good? I remember catching the last half of the very first one on TV once and going "Eh, I'm good, thanks."

eh they weren't bad but they were all pretty much the same movie.

 

[xk0sm0sx]

I just know I do not want to die as a terrorist if they are gonna leak my porn collection to the whole world.
That's a fate worse than death.

 

[Gormless Noodle]

He never gave up on terrorising, he never went back on his word to kill all the infidels. That was his way of the Al-Qaeda.

 

[Harlock]

And played Chinatown Wars on no$gba emulator.

I blame videogames.

 

[T-0800]

Look, he may have been into retro games which is great and all but let me tell you, the guy was a real jerk.

 

[Demicore]

I now feel vindicated in my loathing of anime.

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

I thought all terrorists loved raping little girls. Anime makes sense.

 

[MaddenNFL64]

Damnit Osama don't fuck this up for the rest of us.

Oh wait u dead.

 

[TannerDemoz]

And played Chinatown Wars on no$gba emulator.

I blame videogames.

This information could be deadly in the hands of a journalist from The Sun or Daily Mail.

 

[kittoo]

Wasn't he living there with his many wives and children and grandchildren and what not? Maybe the children were playing games and watching anime.

 

[zenspider]

What was his neogaf name?

Hahahaha

 

[meerak]

See?

I told you.

Anyone in here could suck beyond belief. Liking games doesn’t mean shit!

 

[pwingtothesky]

i wonder if he would like a hat in time more than mario odyssey

 

[Velikost]

Makes sense; much like terrorism, anime is deplorable.

 

[segasonic]

Look, he may have been into retro games which is great and all but let me tell you, the guy was a real jerk.

#Notallterrists

 

[Baron_Calamity]

I was reading a biography of him several years ago (I forget which one) and when he was a teen he was a huge pop culture and video game nerd so none of this is surprising.

Its like when you read that Hitler loved painting and dogs. Part of you wants these people to be completely evil, but they aren't. That is what makes them scarier.

 

[FStubbs]

Didn’t read the article yet, didn’t they recruit children? Could this stuff not be used as reward materials or recruiting incentives?

You know, I think you have a point there.

 

[Vigilant Walrus]

Anime is the thresshold where even neo-nazi and middle eastern terrorists are joined together. Anime walks a path that no other medium can. Even animals are totally spellbound by the etheral currents of anime.



It's like when you find out that Assad has the Itunes playlist of a edgy 14 year old "music was so much better in the 90s".

 

[FoxSpirit]

Anime is the thresshold where even neo-nazi and middle eastern terrorists are joined together. Anime walks a path that no other medium can. Even animals are totally spellbound by the etheral currents of anime.



It's like when you find out that Assad has the Itunes playlist of a edgy 14 year old "music was so much better in the 90s".

Wtf, those comments. John Oliver must've really pissed off the altright a year ago.

 

[llien]

100% of terrorists drink water and breathe oxygen. Ban both.

Well, nearly 100% of humans drink water, but I doubt more than 1% have ever played Perestroika Girls.

What was his neogaf name?

Haha, ahaha...
On second thought, wait a sec...

 

[lifa-cobex]

Osama's great ninja war

 

[down 2 orth]

What the fuck, who still plays pac-man?

 

[Sentenza]

Still wondering if this was his own personal stuff or if he had kids using his computer and laptop.
The former is far more amusing to imagine, but it sounds so unlikely.