The towers and offices of mobile phone operators in Afghanistan are being pressured to shut down operations at night by the Taliban. The former rulers of Afghanistan and current insurgent group held "talks" with the four major mobile companies in Afghanistan today, and gave them three days to go dark for 14 hours per day—or else.
The reason for the threat is the Taliban's belief that American soldiers and rebels within Afghanistan are using mobile phones to track down remaining Taliban members. "Since the occupying forces stationed in Afghanistan usually at night use mobile phones for espionage to track down the mujahideen, the Islamic Emirate gave a three-day ultimatum to all mobile phone firms to switch off their phones from five in the afternoon until seven in the morning," Taliban spokesperson Qari Mohammad Yousuf told Reuters, ironically via mobile phone (and presumably during daylight).
In other words, "Waahh! It's not fair! We don't like getting our asses kicked, so we'll threaten people who can't defend themselves!"
Idiots. Do you think that American forces can't find you during other hours? Perhaps if you had handed Bin Laden over when we asked nicely, you might be in power to this day. But you made a bad choice. Never go to war with the United States. You will lose.
Travis
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