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Taliban Prank Calling British Soldiers' Families

by Tim Stevens on August 23, 2007 at 10:20 AM



British soldiers deployed in Afghanistan have been ordered to no longer use their cell phones to call home. According to reports Taliban insurgents managed to track their calls and nab soldiers' home numbers to make bogus calls to their homes. One such caller, made to the wife of an Air Force officer, frighteningly said "You'll never see your husband alive -- we have just killed him."

The call turned out to be a prank -- the man was alive and well (or at least as well as you can be as a soldier in Afghanistan), but that and other similar cases were enough to prompt the ban on personal cell phones. Soldiers will now have to resort to phones provided by the military, which are limited to 30 minutes per week.

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Tags: afghantistan, cell phones, CellPhones, taliban

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