Pentagon Jamming Taliban Radio Stations And Web Sites

Wall Street Journal:

The Obama administration is starting a broad effort in Pakistan and Afghanistan to prevent the Taliban from using radio stations and Web sites to intimidate civilians and plan attacks, according to senior U.S. officials.

As part of the classified effort, American military and intelligence personnel are working to jam the unlicensed radio stations in Pakistan's lawless regions on the Afghanistan border that Taliban fighters use to broadcast threats and decrees.

Read the whole story: Wall Street Journal

Comments

[WhatDaBleep]

04:00 AM on 04/19/2009

I'm not sure this will do any good because with all the US military equipment the taliban have seized from their raids on supply convoys they have better radios and electronic gear than you or I could ever begin to dream of having. Not to mention the state of the art military weapons like night vision and 50 cal. sniper rifles. Heck if the streets of Pakistan are full of shops selling this stuff - and we can't even buy that here in the United States!

[Avanti2]

10:16 PM on 04/18/2009

Sounds like a good idea to me.

[amorvincitomnia]

05:35 PM on 04/18/2009

Its not unheard of to disrupt enemy lines of communication when during war. I'm surprised this wasn't done before, but I suppose better late than never would apply.

[TeaBaggersRLosers]

03:23 PM on 04/18/2009

THE ARAB WORLD AND ISRAEL’S NUCLEAR ARSENAL
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* ISRAEL

Today, Israel is widely believed to posses 250-300 nuclear weapons, along with their delivery systems which include the Yariho ( Jericho ) missiles and the long-range F-15 and F-16 fighter warplanes.

Needless to say, these nuclear missiles are not trained toward Berlin or Warsaw but toward Muslim capitals such as Cairo, Damascus and Tehran .

Israel had consistently denied possessing nuclear weapons and for many years repeated ad nauseam the vague abracadabra that “ Israel won’t be the first state to introduce nuclear weapons to the region.”

In recent years, however, Israeli officials began to admit, although tacitly, that Israel is indeed a well-established nuclear state.

[vishix]

03:51 PM on 04/19/2009

Wrong thread my friend, this one is about Pakistan. How embarrassing for you.

[Bitsko]

03:04 PM on 04/18/2009

They must be overjoyed that Howard Stern went to satellite.

[newyorkid]

03:03 PM on 04/18/2009

Censoring is a sure way to loose a war.

[Bitsko]

03:07 PM on 04/18/2009

I would think censorship is far from the forefront of most poor Afghani's minds.

[ErikW65]

03:18 PM on 04/18/2009

Blocking the transmission of threats against civilians and elected officials, and the planning of attacks, is not censorship, any more than you have free speech rights to call for a person to be assassinated, or to send transmissions in the plan of such an attack, here in the US.

[kurtlockwood]

02:29 PM on 04/18/2009

Obama just doesn't want Taliban members to call in to their favorite radio station with "the phrase that pays" which is "lalalalalalalalalalalala."

[cloudmaker]

02:17 PM on 04/18/2009

Addendum: Bra burning will seem like nothing when it comes to the
nationwide Burka Bonfire.

[escribacat]

03:31 PM on 04/18/2009

That will be a glorious sight to behold!

[cloudmaker]

02:16 PM on 04/18/2009

Here's the easiest and cheapest way for us to get out of Afghanistan.
Give every women a catalog to some mail-order fashion company
and tell them they each can have a $1,000 in purchases. Then give
each woman a gun and ammunition and tell them to shoot the first
man that tries to prevent them from having the freedom they so
desperately crave.

[Bitsko]

03:04 PM on 04/18/2009

How's about we just build more schools and leave it at that?

[cloudmaker]

04:56 PM on 04/18/2009

Because the Taliban won't allow them to attend the schools.

[prosha]

01:54 PM on 04/18/2009

Arrogant
Divisive
Derisive
Still mucking with other countries, what up Mr. President(e)?

[VoteforPedro]

01:59 PM on 04/18/2009

Yes, the world needs the Taliban like you need cancer.

[ErikW65]

02:54 PM on 04/18/2009

Doing his job, that's what. Those transmissions calling for assasinations and so forth are the equivalent of yelling fire! in a crowded theater.

[Pursuance]

01:51 PM on 04/18/2009

WTF(??) you silly, silly Talibans. You want to go back to the good ole days of the 7th century yet you cant get enough of web browsing and video file sharing? I guess its ok to oppress your population, mainly the women folks, as long as you can post it on youtube?

[AlexFTW]

01:37 PM on 04/18/2009

Well I guess it's no longer classified.

[Bitsko]

03:06 PM on 04/18/2009

It's called a free and inquiring press.

[ZenCrusader]

01:25 PM on 04/18/2009

We should hack into their website and post gay porn. probably won't happen.

[bbriani3842]

11:49 PM on 04/18/2009

gay TALIBAN porn

[WhatDaBleep]

01:12 PM on 04/18/2009

Well - I guess its back to Camels and donkeys to send messages.

[createpeace]

12:51 PM on 04/18/2009

I would like to do that to Rush.
I don't know how anyone can stand listening to him!