[iwar] Saddam and the PS2
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Subject: [iwar] Saddam and the PS2
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Why Iraq's buying up=20
Sony PlayStation 2s=20
Intelligence experts fear games=20
bundled for military applications=20
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By Joseph Farah
=A9 2000 WorldNetDaily.com=20
Many American kids may be disappointed on Christmas morning because the Son=
y
PlayStation 2 they wanted wound up in Iraq.=20
Both the U.S. Customs Service and the FBI are investigating the apparent
transfer of large numbers of Sony PlayStation 2s to Iraq, according to
military intelligence sources.=20
A secret Defense Intelligence Agency report states that as many as 4,000 of
the popular video game units have been purchased in the United States and
shipped to Iraq in the last two to three months.=20
What gives? Does Saddam Hussein have an extraordinarily long Christmas
shopping list? And why would U.S. military and intelligence officials be
concerned about such a transfer?=20
Two government agencies are investigating the purchases because the
PlayStations can be bundled together into a sort of crude super-computer an=
d
used for a variety of military applications, say intelligence sources.=20
"Most Americans don't realize that each PlayStation unit contains a 32-bit
CPU -- every bit as powerful as the processor found in most desktop and
laptop computers," said one military intelligence officer who declined to b=
e
identified. "Beyond that,=20
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