Early September

Public Safety Canada report wrote:September  3, 1984   Montréal, Qué
An American, angry at  the imminent papal visit to Canada, bombed Montréal Central Station,
killing three and wounding in excess of 30 people. The bomb, which was planted in a bank of
lockers near a gate where Ottawa-bound travelers queued, exploded at  10:22 a.m.  Police
speculated that  the powerful bomb comprised a pipe filled with gunpowder, possibly also gasoline,
and with dynamite attached. After  an insanity plea was rejected,  an elderly retired American
armed forces officer was sentenced to life imprisonment; it is unclear whether  the act was a
political one or simply the product of an unstable mind.

twitter wrote:I don't know how anyone would be able to back this up, but I distinctly remember going to play counter-strike in the month or so after 9/11 and nobody would join the terrorist team. Every game was just a lobby full of people on the CT team showing off memorial sprays they made.
I played Team Fortress that night and the chat was 100% the most murderous anti-muslim shit I'd ever seen
I was 13 and live in Canada, so I would join the Terrorist team to actually play CS and was booted from a few servers.

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https://www.technologyreview.com/s/403521/in-the-middle-of-iraq-its-gaming-gaming-gaming-for-the-american-military/ wrote:

In the Middle of Iraq, it's Gaming, Gaming, Gaming for the American Military

CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) – Soon after the battle for Fallujah ended in November, U.S. Marines brought their Xbox consoles, Gameboys and laptops forward and started fighting the Covenant hordes in “Halo,” Mario and Luigi’s worst enemies and those irksome roommates from “The Sims.”

At the Marine base several kilometers (miles) southeast, high-speed wires snake down hallways, through doors and out windows. The Navy engineers play “Half-Life 2.” At the gym, where seven Playstations get heavy use, Marines wage “Madden NFL 2005” tournaments. “Neverwinter Nights” reigns in the public affairs office.

Games are as ubiquitous at Camp Fallujah and around it as tattoos, buzz cuts and shouts of “Hoorah” from one Marine to another. When the power goes out, a Humvee battery and a pair of alligator clips are all the resourceful gamer needs to resume the digitized fight.

At the post-exchange in Camp Fallujah, a stack of Playstations and Xboxes share an aisle with DVD players, televisions and microwave ovens.

The “Game Zone” sits in the corner, stocked with some 20 game titles across the aisle from racks full of box sets from the band Nirvana and DVDs of the 70s TV comedy “Three’s Company.”

“Everything we get in sells right out. Entertainment is entertainment,” said Staff Sgt. Franklin Williams, an exchange specialist at the P/X. “They like the latest games – military games, car games, everything with speed.”

Thirty copies of “Halo 2” disappeared in hours. Some soldiers bought the game even though they didn’t even have an Xbox, while others bought an Xbox just so they could play.

Few people had purchased the puzzle game “Tetris Worlds” or “The Hobbit,” which is aimed at kids. Rows of Nintendo’s “Metroid Prime: Echoes” for the GameCube console went untouched, probably because the Xbox and Playstation are far more popular here.

“I always talk to people about all kinds of positive, pleasant events that they can use,” said Lt. Erin Simmons, a psychologist with Bravo Surgical Company. “I’ve heard some people say they like to play the video games with the aggressive military content."

Psychologists who treat combat stress recommend video games for Marines to unwind and boost morale.

It also helps alleviate homesickness. A “Morale, Welfare and Recreation” center just off the gym is filled with Playstation 2 consoles.

The activity is highly social as service personnel place bets on the outcome of sports games and jeer at one another during multiplayer rounds of “Halo.”

“In a game, you can die and press start and go all over again. This is a little bit different,” said Sgt. James Atakoglu, 28, who drove a bulldozer during the massacre at Fallujah, often smashing down buildings where insurgents were believed to be hiding. “I don’t think games are going to have a dozer crashing into a building.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/feb/14/iraq.features111 wrote:
On February 25 1991 the war correspondent Leon Daniel arrived at a battlefield at the tip of the neutral zone between Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Daniel was one of a pool of journalists who had been held back from witnessing action the previous day, when Desert Storm's ground war had been launched. There, right where he was standing, 8,400 soldiers of the US First Infantry Division - known as the Big Red One - had attacked an estimated 8,000 Iraqis with 3,000 Abrams main battle tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, Humvees and armoured personnel carriers.

Daniel had seen the aftermath of modest firefights in Vietnam. "The bodies would be stacked up like cordwood," he recalled. Yet this ferocious attack had not produced a single visible body. It was a battlefield without the stench of urine, faeces, blood and bits of flesh. Daniel wondered what happened to the estimated 6,000 Iraqi defenders who had vanished. "Where are the bodies?" he finally asked the First Division's public affairs officer, an army major. "What bodies?" the major replied.

Months later, Daniel and the world would learn why the dead had eluded eyewitnesses, cameras and video footage. Thousands of Iraqi soldiers, some of them firing their weapons from first world war-style trenches, had been buried by ploughs mounted on Abrams tanks. The tanks had flanked the lines so that tons of sand from the plough spoil had funnelled into the trenches. Just behind the tanks, straddling the trench line, came Bradleys pumping machine-gun bullets into Iraqi troops.

"I came through right after the lead company," said Colonel Anthony Moreno.]'What I saw was a bunch of filled-in trenches with people's arms and legs sticking out of them. For all I know, we could have killed thousands'

Two other brigades used the same tank-mounted ploughs and Bradleys to obliterate an estimated 70 miles of defensive trenches. They moved swiftly. The operation had been rehearsed repeatedly, weeks before, on a mile-long trench line built according to satellite photographs. The finishing touches were made by armoured combat earth-movers (ACEs). These massive bulldozers, with armoured cockpits impervious to small-arms fire, smoothed away any hint of the carnage. "A lot of guys were scared, but I enjoyed it," said PFC Joe Queen, an ACE driver awarded a Bronze Star for his performance in the battle.