THE father of two brothers who quit Britain to fight in Syria believes they
were groomed using a Call of Duty video war game by Isis.
Heartbroken Ahmed Muthana refused to buy it for sons Nasser, 20, and Aseel,
17.
But they got it anyway — from fanatics. Dad-of-four Ahmed, 57, said: “I
believe the game was bought for them by the same people who encouraged them
to go to Syria.
“The games are fantasies — now my boys are caught up in a real situation.
It goes against everything I have taught them and the way they were brought
up.”
Nasser, who planned to become a doctor, appeared in an online recruitment
video last month, bragging about how the UK should fear what he had learned
in his training camp. Aseel told of his support for Sharia law online.
Retired electrical engineer Ahmed, from Cardiff, wept as he added: “I don’t
trust my own sons any more and I don’t think I will ever see them again. I
wish they would come back.
“That’s all I would say to them — come back.”
Last month British jihadist Abu Sumayyah Al-Britani — who left a year ago to
join the Isis rampage first in Syria, and now in Iraq, boasted: “It’s better
than Call of Duty. It’s like that but it’s in 3D where everything is
happening in front of you.”
Terrorism expert Neil Doyle said: “These games play a role in desensitising
the boys for when they actually end up doing it for real.”
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 included a scene where the player takes part in
a massacre of civilians at a Russian airport to infiltrate a terrorist
group.
Players of the third in the series uploaded videos of Tube trains blowing up.
Twisted fans of Grand Theft Auto re-enacted the Twin Towers attack.
Viewers’ comments include: “This is too f****** perfect lol.”
Another says: “That was awesome.”
A 9/11 scene using the game Just Cause 2 prompted someone called Dodge to
write: “The people that died makes me laugh.”