Was Bin Laden a Fan of Video Games?

A boy plays with a tennis ball in front of Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad. The house was later demolished. (File photo: Reuters)
A boy plays with a tennis ball in front of Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad. The house was later demolished. (File photo: Reuters)
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Was Bin Laden a Fan of Video Games?

A boy plays with a tennis ball in front of Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad. The house was later demolished. (File photo: Reuters)
A boy plays with a tennis ball in front of Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad. The house was later demolished. (File photo: Reuters)

Slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was apparently a fan of video games and cartoons, Britain’s The Daily Mail has reported.

Bin Laden played a number of popular games, including Counter-Strike, Half-Life, Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy VII and Dragon Ball Z, the newspaper said.

The revelation was discovered in a large batch of files and documents recovered from his computer after US forces killed him in a raid on his hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011.

The documents were released on Wednesday by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

The CIA documents also showed that bin Laden was a fan of cute viral videos on YouTube. One video that al-Qaeda’s leader liked to watch is the famous ‘Charlie Bit My Finger’ clip from 2007.

Bin Laden also had the Biography channel's film about himself along with 'CNN Presents: World's Most Wanted.'

The latter film debuted in 2006 and featured the world's top three most-wanted terrorists: bin Laden, his No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahiri, and al-Qaeda leader in Iraq Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

But the more bizarre files are Tom and Jerry cartoons and various children's films - including Ice Age and Chicken Little.



Thousands Mourn Top Iranian Military Commanders, Scientists Killed in Israeli Strikes

Mourners stand next to the coffin of Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami (R), and other military commanders killed during Israeli strikes on the first day of the war, during their funeral procession at Enqelab Square in the capital Tehran on June 28, 2025. (Photo by Atta KENARE / AFP)
Mourners stand next to the coffin of Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami (R), and other military commanders killed during Israeli strikes on the first day of the war, during their funeral procession at Enqelab Square in the capital Tehran on June 28, 2025. (Photo by Atta KENARE / AFP)
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Thousands Mourn Top Iranian Military Commanders, Scientists Killed in Israeli Strikes

Mourners stand next to the coffin of Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami (R), and other military commanders killed during Israeli strikes on the first day of the war, during their funeral procession at Enqelab Square in the capital Tehran on June 28, 2025. (Photo by Atta KENARE / AFP)
Mourners stand next to the coffin of Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami (R), and other military commanders killed during Israeli strikes on the first day of the war, during their funeral procession at Enqelab Square in the capital Tehran on June 28, 2025. (Photo by Atta KENARE / AFP)

Thousands of mourners lined the streets of downtown Tehran on Saturday for the funeral of the head of the Revolutionary Guard and other top commanders and nuclear scientists killed during a 12-day war with Israel.

The caskets of Guard's chief Gen. Hossein Salami, the head of the Guard’s ballistic missile program, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh and others were driven on trucks along the capital's Azadi Street.

Salami and Hajizadeh were both killed on the first day of the war, June 13, as Israel launched a war it said meant to destroy Iran's nuclear program, specifically targeting military commanders, scientists and nuclear facilities.

Over 12 days before a ceasefire was declared on Tuesday, Israel claimed it killed around 30 Iranian commanders and 11 nuclear scientists, while hitting eight nuclear-related facilities and more than 720 military infrastructure sites. More than 1,000 people were killed, including at least 417 civilians, according to the Washington-based Human Rights Activists group.

Iran fired more than 550 ballistic missiles at Israel, most of which were intercepted, but those that got through caused damage in many areas and killed 28 people.

Saturday's ceremonies were the first public funerals for top commanders since the ceasefire, and Iranian state television reported that they were for 60 people in total, including four women and four children.

Authorities closed government offices to allow public servants to attend the ceremonies.