Islamist image turns out to be from Fallout 3 game
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uncertain-world/2053942/SITE%27s-embarrassment-as-Islamist-%27Washington-apocalypse%27-image-turns-out-to-be-from-Fallout-3-game.html
Type of Content: Article This image of Washington after a nuclear holocaust, which a US intelligence group claimed showed the ambition of Islamic extremist terrorists, was actually lifted from a computer game. Read »
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source article = file not found?
seems to have been taken down. i got it off of lewrockwell > http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/021293.html
i'll see if i can locate it, maybe they've moved it somewhere.
just found another site with the same article http://kotaku.com/5011913/intelligence-group-mistakes-fallout-3-screens-...
i think the telegraph was made to take it down today.
here is more info about the apparent reaction from the intelligence service: http://kotaku.com/5011945/site-refutes-fallout-3-goof-is-not-red+faced
thanks!