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Subject: [Clips] Iraq soldiers' phones hacked
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http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/print/0,20285,19585039-5001027,00.html
The Daily Telegraph
Iraq soldiers' phones hacked
June 26, 2006
MOBILE phone calls home made by British soldiers in Iraq may have been
intercepted by insurgents, it was reported yesterday.
Soldiers have been warned of the danger of insurgents using electronic
equipment to intercept their calls and obtain the numbers of their family
in the UK.
The Ministry of Defence confirmed there was concern over reports of
"nuisance calls" to servicemen's families.
It played down suggestions that the calls had included death threats.
A Territorial Army document warned that insurgents in southern Iraq had
managed to obtain the home telephone numbers of British soldiers using
electronic intercept devices.
It said there had been "many instances in the last weeks of relatives and
friends of personnel serving abroad on operations getting nuisance phone
calls".
The newspaper report suggested that the calls had included claims that a
father or son serving in Iraq is dead or will soon be killed, as well as
verbal abuse or silence.
The Ministry of Defence said: "There have been reports of nuisance calls to
the families of service personnel. To our knowledge, nuisance calls have
been just that - nuisance calls.
"We are not currently aware of any reports of anything more sinister."
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"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'