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June 01, 2009

Gitmo: The Video Game
Posted by Adam Blickstein

No, I'm not making this up. And while the premise of the game seems absurd at first glance ("the game depicts the prison in the near future as a camp run by mercenaries who detain innocents sold off to their captors to serve as 'lab rats' in scientific experiments") the game's creators at least seem to be doing it, in part, for a good cause:

Moazzam Begg, who claims to have been tortured during his near-three-year detention, has been brought on as a consultant to the project, reports the Web site Deadline Scotland. A Birmingham native who ran an Islamic bookstore, Begg was detained in Pakistan by coalition forces in 2002 and held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan and, later, Guantanamo. He was released almost three years later without charge...Begg said any earnings he gets from the game will be donated to a charity fighting for the rights of detainees.

No doubt Begg is now on the Pentagon's list of former Guantanamo detainees who returned to the terrorism fight, joining the NYT Op-Ed writers and detainees featured in documentaries as existential threats to the security of the United States.

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