No word on whether or not this will trigger a flood of tourism by Americans looking to get away from their BlackBerry email while on vacation. I can imagine the commercials now..."Kabul: where you can really get away..."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).
Taliban on Mobile Network Shutdown: Terrorist tactic, or tourism boon?
The Taliban wants mobile networks shuttered during evening and early morning hours so they can't be tracked by U.S. forces. From Ars:
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