From the AP: Taliban members in Afghanistan want their mobile phone service restored. The problem: it was the Taliban who attacked the towers in the first place!
The government has been shutting down cell phone networks at night because of Taliban attacks on cell phone towers. Even some Taliban fighters now regret the disruptions and are demanding that service be restored by the companies.
The communication blackout follows a campaign by the Taliban, which said the U.S. and NATO were using the fighters’ cell phone signals to track them at night and launch pinpoint attacks.
About 10 towers have been attacked since the warning late last month — seven of them seriously — causing almost $2 million in damage, the telecom ministry said. Afghanistan’s four major mobile phone companies began cutting nighttime service across the south soon after.
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