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India-Pakistan
Jamming cell phones will not stop us: Taliban spokesman
2012-11-24
[Dawn] A front man for the Pak Taliban has claimed that suspending mobile phone services in the country will not hold back the bad turban group from carrying out its activities.

Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) front man Ehsanullah Ehsan, speaking on the telephone to a Dawn.com correspondent from Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location, claimed the banned group does not carry out bombings using cellular phones as detonators.

"We do not carry out bombings through mobile phones," said the Taliban front man.

The bad turban group's claim came on a day of cellular service suspension in several parts of the country, with the interior minister announcing services would be blocked again Saturday morning for the next two days after a few hours of restoration Friday midnight.

Pak authorities say cut-throats often detonate bombs using cell phones, with Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, Interior Minister under the Gilani government. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. He had to give up the interior ministry job because he held dual Brit citizenship.
claiming earlier today that 90 per cent of the bombs set off by cut-throats in Pakistain have been detonated using mobile phones.

"The Taliban can not be stopped by jamming mobile phone services. We would achieve our targets in any case," said Ehsan, accusing Malik of blocking cellular services for "his own personal business interests".
Posted by:Fred

#2  Block it anyway
Posted by: Large Darling of the Antelope3345   2012-11-24 09:56  

#1  Actually the pressure plate IED is the easiest, least expensive, and by far the most common. It can be left unarmed and unattended, and quickly armed with fresh batteries when needed.

Hanging around a waddie or kopje with a command detonator hoping to slip away following the blast has its downsides, particularly if a drone is nearby.
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-11-24 07:17  

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