Cellphone shutdown leaves 250,000 Afghans without phones after Taliban attacks
Mar 26, 2008 04:40 PM
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KABUL–Taliban attacks on telecom towers have prompted cellphone companies to shut down service across southern Afghanistan, angering a quarter million customers who have no other telephones.
Even some Taliban fighters now regret the disruptions and are demanding that service be restored by the companies.
The communication blackout follows a campaign by the Taliban, which said the United States and NATO were using the fighters' cellphone signals to track them at night and launch pinpoint attacks.
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Instead of blowing up the towers, why don't these guys just turn their frickin cell phones off because once they blow up the towers their cell phones wont' work anyway!!!!!
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