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Can You Hear Me Now?

First, Pakistan basically crashed YouTube for most of the world’s YouTube fans Sunday, in a bid to squelch anti-Islamic vid. Something like that. It’s really complicated, and my understanding of Internet technology is about at same level as the Taliban’s understanding of cell phone technology. Apparently, the hated Crusaders are using the very cell phone signals that fly through the air, like D’jinn, to track the Taliban at night. So the Taliban is threatening to crash Afghanistan’s cell phone network, if the western lackeys do not lock up these evil signals at the last call to prayer, until the hours just before dawn when goatherds are stirring. AFP: 

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Feb 25, 2008 (AFP) — The Taliban threatened Monday to attack mobile phone facilities in Afghanistan, alleging that the technology was being used at night to pin-point the Islamic rebels’ hideouts.

Zabihullah Mujahed, a rebel spokesman, said that several phone companies had been given three days to respond to militants’ demands that they cut night time operations or face attacks, notably on antennas erected across the country.

“The invading forces are using mobile phones for military purposes,” Mujahed told AFP, referring to about 60,000 foreign personnel deployed in Afghanistan to hunt down Taliban militants who are waging a deadly insurgency.

“Usually during the nights the mobile phones are being used to spy on the Taliban to track down their footpaths. Here we ask the (mobile) companies to halt their operations from five o’clock in the evening to seven in the morning,” he said.

They must not be allowed to know what the little button with the red circle/line logo does, by the way. If they learn how to turn those things off, it’s all over. Also, no one tell them about night vision and thermal imaging.

Topics: Afghanistan, Islam, Pakistan

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 8:31 pm on Monday, February 25, 2008

4 Responses to “Can You Hear Me Now?”

1. RebeccaH Says:
   February 25th, 2008 at 10:21 pm

   It’s worth noting that the first documented PC virus originated in Pakistan. That was in the 80s. Since then, Pakistan has become a lot less “Crusader”-friendly, although maybe not more technologically savvy overall. But it’s also worth noting that most of their tech-savvy geeks are U.S. educated.

   Make of that what you will.

2. Blatant Reality » Blog Archive » Terrorists and Technology Says:
   February 25th, 2008 at 11:22 pm

   [...] associates of the people who learned how to fly commercial planes into buildings have been reduced to this. Just another example of how awesome our military [...]

3. saltydog Says:
   February 26th, 2008 at 3:29 am

   In the best of worlds, we are doing all sorts of intelligent things to exploit the crushing ignorance of most of the enemy. While the elite among them have managed a Western education, the followers are ignorant and superstitious. There is a vast difference between forces able to adapt because they have a broad understanding of their equipment and methods–and most importantly, a fundamentally different way of approaching problems, i.e., a more rational, reality oriented way of thinking–and enemy forces who, while clever and cunning, approaches reality with their minds fettered by mysticism.

4. The_Real_JeffS Says:
   February 26th, 2008 at 9:39 am

   Quite true, salty, quite true. I’ve seen cases — in the United States! — where people tried to blindly apply equipment and methods to solve a problem, but they didn’t understand their tools, and failed miserably.

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