[CyberAnt]

Peacenik: "thought it would be a party"

Iraq: "leave your mobile phone at the border"

Welcome to the real world!!

[Bogey78O]

Yea, a cell phone does emit a weak EM signal. If you have an EM amplifier you can hear it send out short static bursts. How else do you think your phone gets calls? It's constantly querying the local cell tower to keep updated. Thus the little signal strength bar.