Blatant Reality

In order to try to stop troops from tracking them through their cell phones, the Taliban operating in Afghanistan have started to blow up telecommunication towers. Here is a perfect example of why terrorist aren’t the brightest crayons in the box. Rather than just disposing of their cell phones, they destroy these towers, thus gaining the populace’s animosity towards them. This really is a lose-lose situation for them. They lose ways to coordinate their attacks and lose potential allies in the villages.

Oh well, if this plan is an example of what the “best minds” of the Taliban came up with, I don’t think they will be around much longer. Plus, the Taliban seems to have forgotten this little fact:

Communications experts say the U.S. military has the ability, using satellites and other means, to pick up cell phone signals without the phone company’s help. Cell phones periodically send signals to the network even when they are not making calls.

Darn, I think those satellites might just a be a little out of reach for the Taliban. Well, as long as the Chinese don’t give them any help.