TIL Osama Bin Laden was a fan of Japanese Otaku culture with a collection of games including Final Fantasy VII, Dragon Ball Z, and Erotic Games.
It also transpires that Bin Laden was an anime fan, with his hard drive also storing various Naruto, Bleach and Dragon Ball games, the complete Devil May Cry anime series and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Yes, it appears that along with being a terrorist, Osama bin Laden was also a weeb.
In news you wouldn't believe if it wasn't for the fact it came from the CIA, Osama Bin Laden's hard drive in which he used during years of hiding contained tons of anime and Nintendo DS Roms. Among them, Pokemon Diamond, and Animal Crossing.
Those naturally include standbys like New Super Mario Bros and Animal Crossing: Wild World. His tastes also ran alongside the otaku, with plenty of Naruto, Bleach, and Dragon Ball games in the list, on top of the complete Devil May Cry anime series.
A massive amount of intelligence was seized during the raid, including hundreds of thousands of files stored on Bin Laden's hard drive. Today, the CIA released nearly 470,000 of those files, and it turns out that not only was he the world's most infamous terrorist, he also had a thing for retro-gaming and anime.
Osama Bin Laden was an anime fan and played pirated Naruto games.
They deny that the CIA or other American officials had contact with Bin Laden, let alone armed, trained, coached or indoctrinated him. American scholars and reporters have called the idea of a CIA-backed Al Qaeda "nonsense", "sheer fantasy", and a "common myth".
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