Taliban terrorises RAF families (tapped into soldiers' mobile phone calls, phoned families)

The Sun (U.K.) ^ | August 23, 2007 | TOM NEWTON DUNN

[Stoat]

 EXCLUSIVE 

Taliban terrorises RAF families

 

 
Phone ban ... Our Boys in Afghanistan

 

By TOM NEWTON DUNN
Defence Editor
August 22, 2007
 
 

 

TALIBAN fanatics terrorised the wife of an RAF officer by phoning her and saying: “You’ll never see your husband alive — we have just killed him.”

 

Rebels in Afghanistan are targeting British forces’ families with hate calls after tapping into Our Boys’ mobile phones.

The tearful wife rang the RAF fearing the worst after receiving the midnight call — and was told her husband was safe and well.

But the Taliban calls are a sick new plot to destroy morale, and British forces in Afghanistan have now been BANNED from using mobiles.

Army chiefs believe extremists are using sophisticated eavesdropping equipment to trace home numbers when forces call their loved ones in Britain.

Intelligence analysts have tracked the hate calls to numbers in Pakistan, a hotbed for Islamic extremism and the Taliban’s prime recruiting ground.

 

Hate plot ... Taliban fighter
 

 

Pakistan’s notorious ISI spy agency — a known supporter of the Taliban — is believed to be intercepting Our Boys’ calls. It is also feared the Taliban may be getting intercept information from Iran.

Now all British troops’ welfare calls have to be made on secure military phone lines. But squaddies are fuming as they are only allowed 30 minutes’ call time each week.

One senior officer said: “We assume these days that every conversation over mobile phones is being heard by our enemies.

“They have some pretty powerful friends and allies, who are giving them some very sophisticated help. They will use that information in any way they can to damage us, whether it is physically or mentally.”

Hate calls are the latest tactic in the ever-more sophisticated war raging in Afghanistan’s lawless south.

A British forces spokesman in Afghanistan confirmed the hate calls, adding: “We are fully aware of the security implications of using personal mobile phones in Afghanistan and have therefore imposed a ban on their use to protect individuals and their families.”

The MoD confirmed that families of troops in Iraq have also suffered from “nuisance calls” in the past year.

[CarrotAndStick]

Iran? Look east. Pakistan. Specifically, the Inter-Services Intelligence, or the ISI.

The proxy war between India and Pakistan has allowed the kind and complexity of telecommunication spying/jamming equipment with the espionage agencies of the two countries to be of high sophestication. Only the ISI, the agency that gave birth to the Taliban, would be able to pull off something like this.

[darth]

I have given a lot of thought on what the islamonazis fear most. My suggestion: the mysoginistic hatred of women, racism, religious intolerance, and death cult programming constitute child and spousal abuse. Therefore, when we capture an islamonazi his wives and children need to be placed in a re-education camp where they can learn modern values of freedom, personal responsibility, respect for secular law, and tolerance. Then they can freely choose their religion (or none at all) and can explore their new found sexual freedom. Our pathetic, primitive enemies have a massive inferiority complex and abiding fear of losing control over their women and children. Having their own flesh and blood turn on them is their worst nightmare. Let’s make it happen. Our enemies should fear us.