When I entered the Sept. 11 Digital Archive <http://911digitalarchive.org/>,
I did not expect to murder Osama bin Laden. Nevertheless, I found myself
with a handgun. After I agreed to “Shoot that worthless motherfucker,” I
fired a bullet into his eye socket. In another animation, a noosed bin
Laden teeters atop a wall-eyed camel with the cue “Hang Him!” In a bit of
macabre symmetry, players may even weaponize box cutters and commercial
airliners.

The *Kill Bin Laden* game is among *hundreds* of homespun Flash
animations—like *The Torture Chamber*, *Fry Osama Bin Laden*, and *Turban
Shooting*—that speak to the undercurrents of confusion, fear, and hate in
the aftermath of Sept. 11. In spite of or perhaps because of their DIY
quality, these unofficial records invite visitors into a grieving process
that is simultaneously intimate, ugly, and elliptical.
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-- 
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