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“Taliban Tap Into (UK) Soldiers’ Mobile Phones”
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 8-22-2007 | Sophie Borland
Posted on 08/21/2007 8:14:55 PM PDT by blam
“Taliban tap into soldiers’ mobile phones”
By Sophie Borland
Last Updated: 2:20am BST 22/08/2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Taliban insurgents are tapping into the mobile phones of British soldiers in Afghanistan and making threatening calls to their families, according to The Sun.
They are thought to be downloading numbers stored in the phones and then terrorising friends and relatives of the servicemen by calling them with threats.
One wife of an RAF soldier based in Afghanistan claimed to have received a phonecall in the middle of the night telling her that her husband was dead despite the fact he was alive and well.
Servicemen have now been told that they must not use their mobiles as they risk breaching security.
It is a similar ploy to that used by Iraqi insurgents last year who were able to tap in to the phones of British soldiers and make threats to their families and friends.
Last June there were several reports of relatives and friends of servicemen based in Iraq receiving calls in the middle of the night threatening that a son or husband will be killed.
A spokesman from the Ministry of Defence said: “Soldiers are specifically told not to take their mobiles phones into the theatre anyway so they should not have them with them in Afghanistan. “There is little reason that they would want them as the infrastructure for mobiles is very poor in the country.”
UPDATE...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6957951.stm
Last Updated: Wednesday, 22 August 2007, 05:38 GMT 06:38 UK
“Officials probe Japan plane blaze”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Aviation officials from the US and Taiwan have arrived on the Japanese island of Okinawa to investigate why a passenger plane burst into flames.
The plane, a Taiwanese China Airlines Boeing 737-800, exploded into a fireball shortly after landing at Naha airport on Monday.
All 165 people on board survived, some escaping with just seconds to spare.”