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...Cell-Phone Fatwa...
Taliban insurgents are following through on their threat to target cell-phone towers if wireless firms continue providing nighttime service. Up to nine towers in southern Afghanistan have been attacked since last month. Why go after telecom? The Taliban believes informants use cell phones to alert U.S. troops after dark. According to the U.S. military, more than 50 high-level Taliban members were killed in 2007--many at night...
GIVING IN? Reluctant to be associated with the government, wireless companies have refused state security protection. And although the companies haven't admitted to caving in to Taliban demands, many Afghans have recently reported that their cell-phone service has been shut down after dark...
...public administration or a school or hospital. By the time I grew up, votes were typically sold for far less: telephone and electricity bills paid for the two months before and one month after an election. In the last few ballots, the new bait has been the cell phone. Someone shows up and gives you one before the election, and you can keep it if you come back with a photo on this new, shiny handset showing your ballot marked for the right candidate. The phones, which are worth about $75 apiece, are even conveniently set up to snap...
...French constitution included the right to insurrection. Perhaps the moment has arrived in Italy to exercise the right to be fed up. To rediscover a true democratic choice. To make the most of our votes, instead of swapping our very destiny for nothing more than a new cell phone. Italy's future is worth a whole lot more than that...