Army wives get phone death threats from Iraq

Can you say "Reverse Directory"? This is definitely not good news.

Army wives get phone death threats from Iraq
By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent

Wives and family members of soldiers fighting in Iraq have received telephone calls, believed to include death threats, from insurgents, according to military documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph.

The "nuisance" calls have been made with increasing frequency over the past few weeks after insurgents managed to obtain home numbers from soldiers' mobile telephones.

The growing number of calls has led to an investigation by the Royal Military Police, which has issued a warning to all soldiers in Iraq to take great care when using mobile telephones to call home.

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.

more:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/06/25/wirq25.xml&s

call home. Things must really be getting bad.

Were the threats in English? What exactly were the threats? What kind of accent? Caller I.D.?
The story does not make sense.
Maybe it's supposed to make sure that the troops no longer carry cell phones and can't call home, as the above poster guessed. Maybe it's an effort to get the sympathy of family members who are against the war.

here's some more:

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.

It adds: "Investigations indicate that the 'callers' of these nuisance calls have acquired the numbers from personnel using their own mobiles to phone. This is fairly easy using today's technology. It makes no difference whether the mobile is of UK origin or sourced abroad.

they told us to do was not put his rank on the package and not to put our names and addresses on it either.

the insurgents. ;-)

That story doesn't pass the smell test. TERRA-TERRA-TERRA. Bet Rove is making those calls.

But I wouldn't be surprised if NSA doesn't give a rip about real terrorist threats, and pays no attention to these death threats to Americans.