Manual labourers under the Roshan cell tower, in Dehdadi, a small town/village in the north, just outside Mazar e Sharif, Afghanistan. JanChipChase
Bin Laden Kill Spooks Taliban Off Cell Phones -- CBS
ISLAMABAD - More than six months after U.S. Navy SEALs tracked and killed Osama bin Laden in the northern Pakistani city of Abbottabad, bringing an end to the rein of the world's most hunted terrorist, his allies in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region have reportedly taken unusual precautions to avoid capture, or death.
In a range of background interviews with CBS News, Pakistani and Western officials say human couriers are increasingly being used by militants to replace the ubiquitous cell phone.
While there are no clear, verifiable statistics to back the claims, the officials say the intelligence information available is enough to suggest that the trend is growing significantly.
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My Comment: The Taliban have always been leery of cell phones .... but Bin laden's death clearly surprised many. But while they are leery they have not gone about "blowing-up" the cell towers .... a tactic that they will now definitely not pursue since it will then alienate the mass majority of the public who have grown dependent on this technology for their communications.
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