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Taliban Seizes and Burns PCs, Cell Phones To Stop Obscenity
retroworks writes "As translated from Central Asia Online, Cellular News reports that militants from South Waziristan set ablaze about 300 cellular phones and a number of computers in Wana because the devices were allegedly used to spread obscene materials. Prior to taking the action, they gave everyone fair warning with 'leaflets.' 300 cell phones down, 5 or 6 billion to go.
U.S. already does. 18 year limit for natural love making, but violence is all good! Then when someone does weird porn that minority like (and doesn't hurt anyone), like shitting in mouth, they jail those responsible for filming it. Land of hypocrites.
It's the Taliban's leaders that should be raided! They all watch porn and force their spouses to wear the Burka so no one will find out it's a MAN! You're not gay if everyone thinks you're with a woman.
There are people in the US that are ready and waiting to do the exact same thing. Some of them are corporations.
The RIAA and MPAA wish all this would go away.
The Dominionists and other so-called-Christian radicals (note the location of the hyphen) would burn all modern communications technology and "unchristian books" (meaning anything other than the bible) in a heartbeat.
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BMO
No need. The US Congress is racing to do that for them. (I wish this was a joke)
There are two possibilities. Either they are eliminating all cell phones, or only the cell phones of the non-Talaban under their control. If the get rid of all cell phones, then their ability to coordinate and send/receive timely information will be seriously impacted. They will become less effective.
If they keep cell phones for themselves, they become much more obvious targets. It will be easier to listen in on their communications because they will be the only ones talking. Even just detecting a cell phone signal will flag the location of a Talaban member. Not such a good move in the era of loitering UAVs with GPS enabled munitions.
It's nice when your enemies are such stupid fanatics that they either shoot themselves in the foot, or paint a target on their backs. I hope they find even more ways to use their religious fanaticism screw themselves up.
Why is Snark Required?
"Taliban Seizes and Burns PCs, Cell Phones To Stop Obscenity"
Contrast with:
US Government Seizes and Burns DNS domains, To Stop Copyright Infringement.
Discuss.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
Considering the Taliban manual specifically prohibits any Taliban from being alone in a room with an unbearded man (boy), I bet it is so that nobody can record that evidence as well.
Which is incredibly ironic that they are trying to prevent obscenity when they are predominately pedophiles.
Before anybody mods this troll..... if it was false why would it have to be in the manual for the Taliban specifically?
The parent commenter was probably taking pop statistics to calculate that. Figure 6 millions Jews killed (which is not the whole story) and the use the 60 million figure that is commonly touted for Stalin (which is way overestimated according to anything I've read about it; that doesn't make it less heinous, however).
http://www.rootstrikers.org/
How many people did capitalism kill 'directly or indirectly'?
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I am biased since I am a Capt in the Air Force, writing this from Afghanistan. Obviously, I advocate good men taking action to stop evil men from killing.
Be careful young man when it comes moral absolutes. There are quite a few people who hold that opinion about you. You are an officer in a foreign invading military - a military that has killed innocent civilians.
And what no one else has mentioned is that under the Taliban, the Afgan opium trade was just about destroyed. Now, it's quite alive and well - which is also considered "evil" by our government.
The fact is that those "evil" people you are killing were not considered evil by the US government not too long ago.