After we caught the Reuters story about jihadists hacking games to create eQaeda mods, the story fell apart. As Watercoolgames notes, the mod was just a typical mod. I enjoy the misidentification of an inserted voice - turns out it was from Team America: World Police (2004). Ha!
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May 08, 2006
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