Daily Mail, Australian News Outlet Report Fallout 3 Concept Art as Terrorist Propaganda
by Aaron Linde, May 30, 2008 11:30am PDTA piece of concept art of a decimated Washington, D.C. from Bethesda Softworks post-apocalyptic RPG Fallout 3 (PC, PS3, 360) has been circulated through a handful of news publications, reported as terrorist propaganda after an intelligence contractor said the image was used in al Qaeda-related videos.
The artwork (pictured left) was released as part of Bethesda's early promotional campaigns for Fallout 3, which takes place in and around the Washington, D.C. area decades after a nuclear catastrophe. The image appeared on the Daily Mail's website under the headline "Al-Qaeda's terrifying vision of a devastated America in the wake of a nuclear attack."
"This is the apocalyptic scene terrorists hope to create if they ever get their hands on a nuclear bomb... posted on an Islamic extremists' website yesterday," wrote the Mail's Barry Wigmore.
The image also appeared on the Australian news outlet News.com.au, citing terror watchdog organization SITE Intel as having released the image "which reportedly appeared on an Islamist forum."
Though several members of the press have since pointed out the gaffe, neither the Daily Mail nor News.com.au have updated their stories with corrections or retractions of the claim.
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The problem isn't the Daily Mail. I don't expect them to have a gamer on hand to say "Oh, that was a promotion piece for such and such". Can you google an actual image to see where it pops up on the net? I don't think we can do that just yet.
All the Mail saw was an asshole terrorist or terrorist groupie posting a well-made picture on a website. I'm sure they passed it off as their own. These bastards can't do anything on their own.
1) 9/11 was with our own planes
2)London train bombing was with our own demolition stuff (the Brits' stuff this time)
3) The Cole used foreign made boats to detonate foreign made ordinance
4) IED's are all Russian and Chinese shells
5) Italian train bombing used cell phones and demo blocks that these people couldn't build if you gave them a factory and a handbook.
and on and on. You think they're going to suddenly become an original, creative people when it comes time to use the West's own computer network to rally their pathetic troops?
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Al-Qaeda's terrifying vision of a devastated America in the wake of a nuclear attack
and the body of the article later contradicts the headline by stating this:
The FBI was quick to point out that it had not issued any warning and that the video was not an official Al Qaeda release through its media arm, Al Sahab, but simply an ' amateur' collection of old footage spliced together and posted on the Internet.
I expect propaganda, but not on the shack. Also, they have been usage anti american imagery for decades, just because they found a quality photo on the net doesn't mean it should be front page news. This shit fucking angers me. >:(
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Slow news day?
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i buy newspapers only to pas the time , take everything with a massive pinch of salt, i think in the us 80% of newspapers owned by one company/man.
also that texas superhighway thing to s top the protests the company building the road just bought every newspaper compnay up and down length it would be built, no more protests.
dont trust newspapers ever
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The Terrorists Have Won!
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"Hmmm, nowhere do you seem to mention this is actually just a piece of concept art for the highly anticipated video game Fallout3, a role playing game that takes place in a fictional post nuclear war America. I've no doubt that it may have been used on extremest websites along many other "second hand" images but that hardly makes it news, c'mon guys a little research wouldn't have hurt here."
I got a message explaining that all comments are pre-moderated, it doesn't seem to have made it up.
lol
/buncha fucking retards over there.
In other news, I'd pay top dollar for a nice high quality print of that VERY piece of art (posted).
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