Taliban Destroys Afghan Phone Towers

Previously the Taliban spokesman Zahidullah Mujahid, of whom Jawas recently pwnd 32 of the Taliban official websites had stated the militants would blow up the towers across Afghanistan if they didn't turn them off at night. Taliban are afraid that the US and foreign troops are using the mobile phone signals to track them.

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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan(AP)

Taliban militants have attacked two more telecom towers in southern Afghanistan after warning phone companies to shut down the towers at night.

Militants burned the base station of a tower in Kandahar city late Saturday owned by the Roshan company, said Qarim Agha, a police officer.

Another Roshan tower was damaged by insurgents in the Sangin district of neighboring Helmand province, said provincial police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal. Roshan declined to comment.

In the first attack after issuing the threat, the Taliban destroyed a tower along the main highway in the Zhari district of Kandahar province on Friday. That tower was owned by Areeba, one of Afghanistan's four mobile phone companies.

Militants have threatened mobile phone companies in the past, accusing them of collusion with the U.S. and other foreign military forces.

The destruction of the cell towers will affect thousands of Afghan phone users, but it will also affect the Taliban, because militant fighters rely on mobile phones to communicate and coordinate their operations.

I guess the Taliban doesn't realize the military has other means of tracking them. I also wonder what form of communication they will be doing at night. Maybe dog whistles?

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