Four Cell Phone Towers Destroyed By Taliban
Last month, the Taliban issued warnings to mobile phone service providers in Afghanistan. It said that any cell tower that was not shut down by 5 PM for a period of 10 hours would be destroyed. Providers did not take this threat kindly and have not shut anything down. Well, as of this morning, it would seem that the Taliban wasn't kidding, since it has done its best to punish mobile phone providers this week by destroying four cell towers, the latest of which went down last night.
As we reported earlier this week, the Taliban believe that U.S. military forces are using cell phone signals to track insurgents. According to the Taliban, the military is gaining access to the signals provided by the phones many of the group carries and using those signals to target attacks. It's unclear whether there's any truth to that charge (the military certainly has plenty of tricks up its sleeve), but you can be sure the towers' destruction (and the resulting communication outages) should earn the Taliban no more support from the people of Afghanistan.
From textually.org
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