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Former Gitmo Detainee Becomes XBox Star

File in the category of "You couldn't make this stuff up", former Gitmo detainee,  Moazzam Begg, is on his way to starring in a new X-box game. The new game, Rendition, is being developed by a software firm in Scotland and lets players control a Guantanamo detainee who is trying to shoot his way out of the prison. Begg's "expertise" was called upon as the game's creators needed to know the layout of the prison thus he was initially hired as a consultant.

Needless to say the game maker is being criticized:

"We have had a lot of hate mail about this, mainly from America, saying things like, 'Don't dare put out a game that shows them killing our soldiers," Zarrar Chishti, director of Scottish software company T-Enterprise, told the U.K.'s Daily Mail."

Hate mail?  Sounds more like adamant requests not to make an outrageous "true to life" game about killing American (or British) soldiers - can't imagine why anyone would find that offensive and unacceptable - can you?

Zarrar Chishti, director of the software company, insists that only "mercenaries" will be killed - mercenaries at Gitmo? - now that sounds a bit NON-realistic. 

Chishti further states: "We are expecting an extreme reaction to the game in the US. But we think it will sell well in the Middle East."

Well - guess that should come as no surprise - but you can be sure that the "extreme reaction" in the USA WON'T look like THIS or THIS over THIS. 

At a cost of £250,000 or $405,000, the game/atrocity is scheduled to go on sale this coming October.

Just another glaring example of:  For many people - when it comes to money - there is no morality.

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Former terror detainee stars in Gitmo Xbox game

Moazzam Begg plays himself in Rendition: Guantanamo

MUSLIM ARTIST'S VIDEO GAME CHALLENGES PLAYERS TO KILL PRESIDENT BUSH

While the continuous drumbeat of muslim claims regarding the myth of Islamophobia resound in Europe, UK & USA and while cartoons are enough to provoke muslim demonstrations and even killing - we now find a former Iraqi, Wafaa Bilel, who is now a US citizen, producing a video game -under the guise of art - that allows the player to stalk and kill US President George W. Bush. In fact, Mr Bilel appears in the video as a suicide bomber.

Mr. Bilel considers himself a political artist who's subject matter usually deals with political oppression, war and what he calls the "Iraqi experience". He was angered when he was viewed as a victim/spy, post first Gulf War, yet still looked to the USA as the place he aspired to live.  He received entry into the US and began his new life. Thus, this so -called computer based art is developed by a muslim man, who has utilized all the advantages that the USA offers new immigrants to obtain a bachelor's degree from the University of New Mexico and and MFA (Master of Fine Arts) from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago - where he currently resides as a Professor - a Country that clearly has greatly facilitated Bilel's success.

One has to wonder where and how much Wafaa Bilel touts the many liberties he has found in the USA - freedoms that allow him to produce such political "works of art" that would find him maimed or killed in any muslim nation. (also see here) In fact, Bilel had previously been arrested for his artwork by Sadaam Hussein's enforcers.

Or, as it appears, is he twisting the First Amendment to the US Constitution, under the guise of art, to further terrorism, violence and hatred toward the President of the United States and in turn the American people?

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ARTIST'S VIDEO GAME CHALLENGES PLAYER TO KILL PRESIDENT