Isis is
trying to swell its ranks and train fighters using hit video game Grand
Theft Auto 5, claiming that what players do in the game resembles their
battlefield operations.
They
have posted a video to YouTube carrying their flag showing violent
scenes from the game, including police officers being gunned down and
trucks being blown up.
At
the start of the video a message appears that reads: ‘Your games which
are producing from you, we do the same actions in the battelfields
(sic)!!’. #WATCH video below:
This appears to be a way of saying that if you’re playing Grand Theft Auto, you’re already part way to being an Isis fighter.
There
are no real-life scenes in the video, which has been made using a
mixture of the online multiplayer mode and the solo narrative.
Egyptian
media said that the video is meant to ‘raise the morale of the
Mujahideen, and the training of children and young teenagers to fight
the West, and throw terror into the hearts of opponents of the state’,
according toForbes.
It
came as a Syrian who was interviewed by Isis to work in its media
centre revealed just how slick and well-funded its PR machine is.
Experts
believe that the terrorist organisation has amassed the money necessary
to run such a formidable operation partly by smuggling oil from oil
fields that it’s taken control of.
The
Syrian said he had a job interview with Isis to work in its media
centre in Raqqa, Syria's capital, and that he was amazed at the salary
he was offered and the equipment he would have at his disposal.
The
man, who turned the job down, told the Financial Times: 'They offered
me $1,500 a month [five times the average Syrian salary], plus a car, a
house and all the cameras I needed. I remembered looking around the
office. It was amazing the equipment they had in there.'
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