Osama bin Laden (above), the mastermind of terrorist attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was also a fan of popular video games
Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden was apparently a fan of video games.
The Al Qaeda leader played a number of popular games, including Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy VII and Dragon Ball Z.
The revelation, which was reported by Newsweek, was discovered in a large batch of files and documents recovered from bin Laden’s computer and released on Wednesday by the CIA.
News of bin Laden’s affinity for Counter-Strike seems appropriate since the game features teams of terrorists and counter-terrorists who battle to see if they can perpetrate an attack.
Since the Saudi-born terrorist and 9/11 mastermind was killed in a US special forces raid on his Pakistan compound in 2011, it has been learned that he has consumed Western culture – even though he vowed to fight the West in the name of radical Islam.
The CIA dump also showed that bin Laden was a fan of cute viral videos on YouTube.
One video that bin Laden liked to watch is the famous ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ clip from 2007.
The CIA released hundreds of thousands of files recovered from bin Laden’s computer, which included audio and video files of movies. Bin Laden is seen watching himself on television in a still from a video released by the Department of Defense in 2011, several days after he died
The Al Qaeda leader played a number of popular games, including Counter-Strike, which features teams of terrorists and counter-terrorists who battle to see if they can perpetrate an attack
Bin Laden was also a fan of Half-Life, the first-person shooter game which inspired many other similar games
The Al Qaeda leader was also known to have played Final Fantasy VII and Super Mario Bros.
The 55-second clip, which has been watched over 854 million times worldwide on the internet, shows two young boys, Harry, who was three years old at the time, and his then-one-year-old brother, Charlie.
When Harry puts his arms around Charlie, Charlie bites one of his fingers.
Harry finds this funny, so places his finger in Charlie’s mouth again. He obligingly bites down a second time – but hard.
Harry’s face is a picture as the pain slowly registers, and indignant howls follow. He then announces crossly: ‘Charlie bit me!’
One video that bin Laden liked to watch is the famous ‘Charlie bit my finger’ clip from 2007
As for Charlie – he just giggles.
The clip was originally filmed by the boys’ father, Howard Davies-Carr.
Davies-Carr, a resident of London, said he was stunned to learn that one of the clip’s viewers was an avowed enemy of Western civilization.
‘I don’t know how to react,’ he told Huffington Post. ‘It’s hard to take in.
‘You never can tell who has a lighter side. It’s hard to imagine he’s planning terrible things one minute and then laughing with his family over this the next.’
Davies-Carr said his sons are too young to know about the September 11 terrorist attacks.
He said his wife feared that bin Laden may have watched the clip to map out his next targets.
The trove of files released by the CIA also consists of objects like bin Laden’s journal as well as a number of American movies the terrorist had on hand, including the 2008 Morgan Spurlock documentary, ‘Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?’ and the Disney film, ‘Cars.’
Because of copyright issues, the CIA couldn’t release some of the content found in the compound – so instead released a list that included the many American films the terrorist kept on hand.
Bin Laden’s computer also had a number of kids’ films including Antz (right), Batman Gotham Knight, Cars (right), Chicken Little, Marvel’s Heroes of Tomorrow, Home on the Range, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and The Three Musketeers
Besides, the Spurlock documentary, bin Laden also had the Biography channel’s film about himself along with ‘CNN Presents: World’s Most Wanted.’
The latter film debuted in 2006 and featured the world’s top three most-wanted terrorists: bin Laden, his No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqaw, who was killed the same year.
Another CNN film from 2006, ‘In the Footsteps of bin Laden,’ was also among the terrorist’s trove.
Bin Laden also had a number of kids’ films including Antz, Batman Gotham Knight, Cars, Chicken Little, Marvel’s Heroes of Tomorrow, Home on the Range, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and The Three Musketeers.
The terrorist, who couldn’t leave the confines of his compound without putting his life in danger, had a number of films about other places, including Peru Civilization, The Kremlin from Inside and The Story of India.
Bin Laden had a collection of National Geographic films too, along with a copy of the BBC’s Great Wildlife Moments.
The CIA said it also did not release any pornography found.