Taliban Threaten To Blow Up Mobile Phone Companies So U.S. Can’t Track Them
KABUL, Feb. 25 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Taliban militants warned Afghan mobile phone operators on Monday that their towers and offices will be blown up if the companies do not halt phone signals for 10 hours at night.
The militants’ purported spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said the U.S. and NATO military forces were using mobile signals to track down Taliban fighters and then launch attacks against their hideouts.
“If the companies don’t stop their signals from 5 p.m. to 3 a.m. in our areas, we will destroy their towers,” Mujahid told Kyodo News by phone from an undisclosed location, reading a statement issued by the Taliban’s leadership council.
He said the militants have given the companies a three-day deadline to comply with the demand, or else face attacks on their towers, offices and staffs.
There are four mobile phone companies in Afghanistan, providing services to nearly all parts of the poverty-stricken country. They have more than 3 million subscribers.
The companies are the most profitable foreign investment since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
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