Middle East Online::From Iraq and Afghanistan to Mali: Wars, Masks and Video-games "Last January, a photograph distributed by an international wire service made quite buzz in internet chat rooms. It showed a French soldier standing guard in front of armored army vehicles. In the picture, apparently taken in Niono (central Mali), the French Special Forces soldier was wearing combat goggles and a black balaclava mask with a skeleton-face design.
There were those who protested the picture as a display of insensitivity and detachment from the local Malian population. Others saw in it a rather benign manifestation of video-game culture, since the mask worn by the soldier was reminiscent of “Ghost”, one of the characters of the blockbuster video-game series Call of Duty."
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