There was speculation from the Madrid and London bombings that cell phones were used as triggers... either by using electric pulse from the alarm on the phone or the electrical pulse from the ringer. so for them to jam the towers or shut them down is not a far off thought... right now though it is all speculation... until more evidence comes in. but my suspicon is the brought the towers offline to prevent panic and any other possible triggers.
just my $.02
Good .
Bingo.
I think you pegged it. Terrorist attack or not, it was an effort to disable a trigger, just in case. It may or may not have worked. We may never know.
Whenever something like this happens, I remember the President saying many times that in the WOT there would be many fronts...and victories that we would not even hear about.
I can live with that.