Army wives get phone death threats from IRAQ

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...5/wirq25.xml&s

Army wives get phone death threats from Iraq
By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent
(Filed: 25/06/2006)



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.

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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

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I have been amazed this has not happened before. Or it has happened and been supressed.

Anyone who every had any association with the intelligence field has known this has be a reality for many wars.

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Geesh,

Haven't they come up with something to keep this from happening yet?? I would resort to Postal mail or something. THats scarey.

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The only way to block it would be to have all calls filtered through a screen service. And that would require mail to be screened as well, since they would just fall back to that resource.

Been going on for decades.

But then you have the issues of privacy invasion.