A bizzare bizarre story from the Telegraph:
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.
The military document states that there have been “many instances in the last weeks of relatives and friends of personnel serving abroad on operations getting nuisance phone calls” from Iraq.
I can’t find any mention of this happening to U.S. troops and their families.
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If soon we have calls here, might it be related to stolen data?
I just think sometimes we underestimate our enemies.
Oooops, last comment, btw, thanks for all you’re doing to keep us informed and to support our troops. I view blogs now more than MSM to get real-time info.
This is bullshit propaganda with all the smelly hallmarks of the u.s goverment.
When the media says something, always look the opposite direction, then you will find the truth.
to the monkeys getting paid to observe… hahah your life is almost over and nobody is proud of you.
The iraqi people are people like you and I and if you had enough guts you would defend your street in your crappy home town against an invasion.
Drop another bomb on some kids.
remember heroshima? nagasaki? Do you people like bombing civilians, children , women in their homes?
We all wait in excitement to see you lose, and that you will.
When we have a new 9/11 maybe in D.C. maybe just maybe the ney sayers will wake up. I hate to say this but some don’t realize we are in world war III.
This is horrible, today they receive phone threats, tomorrow, who knows? I wish all our brave soldiers the best of luck, and hope this war will end soon.
i can confirm that this has happened to US troops as well. I don’t know why it never got wider coverage, it may have been kept under wraps, but when I was stationed in Germany I read a letter from the commander telling people who ran unsponsered Family Readiness Group style websites to delete any and all personal information from the sites and that they should only use secure Army sponsered websites for this kind of activity.