A Russian TV channel is suggesting that a recent airport terrorist attack may have been carried out by operatives trained on Activision's Modern Warfare 2.

A terrorist blew up 7kg of TNT at Domodedovo airport this week, killing 35 people and injuring 110.

Russia Today, a government-financed satellite channel, ran a report this week mixing footage of the recent Moscow airport bombing with the No Russian level from Modern Warfare 2.

Russia Today also stressed that the game was made by Americans.

Games and terror

Walid Phares, a Fox News terrorism analyst, said that terrorists might be using videogames to train for real-world attacks.

"I think those who have been radicalized already — let's suppose in this case jihadists, Al Qaeda or [some] other kind — they look at the games and say these games will serve them to train," said the terrorism expert.

"The bloody scenes of the Moscow attack are reminiscent of what can be seen in a year-old computer game, the scenario of which controversially involves a character who is urged to kill civilians in an imaginary Russian airport, " reads Russia Today's report.

"In the mission dubbed 'No Russian' the player goes on a terrorist rampage, helping to massacre civilians in a fictitious Moscow airport. It may have seemed too gruesome and tragic ever to come true."

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Oh yes, it's definitely MW2, nothing at all to do with the inherent insecurity of the whole region since the collapse of the CCCP, all the nut-job separatists in regions such as Chechnya and the wide availability of weapons.

Surely the only appreciable skill in a suicide bombing involves acquiring explosives and detonators, and then concealing them about your person? If you need a computer game to help you work out what to do, you're pretty much screwed.

What's to train?
Walk into an airport with a bag, open bag, trigger detonator?
It's not as if Mordern Warfare teached people how to build bombs.
Even without Modern Warfare, I think they might have pick up a few ideas from Al Quieda or Chechen rebels.

Well if MW2 is responsible for training terrorists they shold be easy to spot. As I find using a mouse/WASD or controller the best way to learn how to use weapons or explosives

In other words another attempt by authorities to duck their responsibilities and find a scapegoat.

I am waiting for the Spongebob Squarepants game to be blamed for something.

Very easy to spot - they'll be the ones outside the entrance trying to figure out why the spacebar isn't opening the door for them.

I'm not sure which part of "No Russian" involves blowing yourself up?

Get a [LIFTED] grip.