Being captured by maniacs with guns isn't all bad, sometimes. While the popular image of an Iraqi abduction brings televised beheadings to mind, the Islamic Shia Resistance is a touch more merciful, if no less barmy, than the average Middle Eastern nutter, providing their hostages with the most modern of comforts. Once they've earned it, at least.
UK IT specialist Peter Moore, who was keeping his head down in Baghdad, found himself kidnapped by the group in May 2007. His four bodyguards had been killed but Moore was kept alive. For two years they treated him pretty badly, but suddenly decided to be nice and give him access to a TV, a laptop and even a PlayStation.
While two-and-a-half years in captivity, seemingly for no reason, will doubtless be damaging for Moore, he is quoted by papers as having been kept "sane" thanks to the PlayStation. So there you go. Free videogames if you get captured by extremist Muslim psychos. That's still a better deal than anything GameStop will offer you, and with slightly less terrorism involved!
Islamic Captors Allowed Hostage To Play PlayStation [Hot Blooded Gaming]
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3:00 PM on 01.02.2010
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SONY SUPPORTS TERRORIST!
All this time I wondered why more of my friends back home in Northern Ireland owned PS3s but it turned out the IRA was behind it all along.
SONY IS THE TERRORISTS.
GTA? Barbie? Or...Bubsy 3D?
The Tr3y Brotherhood must be stopped before a holy console war truly breaks out.
CALL THE PRESIDENT!!!
Two years might not be enough, though...
HOW WILL HE TELL US ABOUT SPORTS GAMES NOW
Shyaddup!
Kidding but this sums up the source material. Do not Question the Jim JOURNALISM!
Sounds like my university experience.
EDIT: ace of knaves doesn't count because he was being ironic... i hope.
Itīs bizzare
But then he'd have to stop playing Playstation..
BODYGUARDS DESERVE TO PLAY PLAYSTATION TOO.
Fan is short for fanatic after all.
How old is this story though? Why didn't we hear about it sooner