Not content to wage guerilla war and continute slaughtering people for Allah, Iraqi insurgents have now adopted a technique pioneered by adolescents worldwide in their quest to spread terror. Crank phone calls.
Using off-the-shelf technology, insurgents have begun to capture cell-phone numbers and make threatening phone calls to the families of British soldiers.
The "nuisance" calls have been made with increasing frequency over the past few weeks after insurgents managed to obtain home numbers from soldiers' mobile telephones. The growing number of calls has led to an investigation by the Royal Military Police, which has issued a warning to all soldiers in Iraq to take great care when using mobile telephones to call home.
The extent of the problem emerged in a restricted Army document issued to soldiers of the London Regiment, a Territorial Army unit, which has soldiers from its ranks serving in Iraq. The document warns soldiers preparing to take part in operations that insurgents in southern Iraq have managed to obtain the home telephone numbers of soldiers by using electronic intercept devices to hack into mobile phone systems. It is understood that the threats range from claims that a husband or son is dead or will be killed fighting in Iraq, to verbal abuse.
Many of those who have received calls say that they were made by people with a poor command of English or with a Middle Eastern accent.
Telegraph | News | Army wives get phone death threats from Iraq
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