Taliban take out Afghan cell towers.

Back on February 25th we learned that the Taliban were demanding a night time cell tower shutoff. They believed they were being tracked using their cellphone signal and issued a fatwa threatening to take out the towers. It looks like they are now doing just that.

(note to Taliban: Good luck with your long string and two tin-cans now, bozos.)

Today from the Jawa Report we have this:

Taliban militants have attacked two more telecom towers in southern Afghanistan after warning phone companies to shut down the towers at night.

Militants burned the base station of a tower in Kandahar city late Saturday owned by the Roshan company, said Qarim Agha, a police officer.

Another Roshan tower was damaged by insurgents in the Sangin district of neighboring Helmand province, said provincial police chief Mohammad Hussein Andiwal. Roshan declined to comment.

In the first attack after issuing the threat, the Taliban destroyed a tower along the main highway in the Zhari district of Kandahar province on Friday. That tower was owned by Areeba, one of Afghanistan's four mobile phone companies.

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