Blitzed by text messages
By TOM NEWTON-DUNN
December 11, 2006
Cunning: Attacks against British soldiers in Afghanistan are DOWN since the British started playing mind games with the Taliban
TALIBAN fighters in Afghanistan are being bombarded by a devastating new British weapon — the text message.
Intelligence chiefs find out the numbers of the enemy’s mobile phones then send them waves of messages to confuse them and destroy morale, The Sun can reveal.
Texts range from simple abuse such as “We know who you are, give up” or “Go home, you’ll never beat us”. Others are disguised as messages from comrades to spread duff information. And attacks on Royal Marine commandos in lawless Helmand province are DOWN in the last month since the mind games began.
The text attacks are carried out by the 15 (UK) Psychological Operations Group, based at the Intelligence Corps’ HQ in Chicksands, Bedfordshire.
A military source in Afghanistan said: “If they know their fight is pointless, they are quite likely to give up.”
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Still the best and, pound for pound, the deadliest army in the world.
December 11, 2006
Cunning: Attacks against British soldiers in Afghanistan are DOWN since the British started playing mind games with the Taliban
TALIBAN fighters in Afghanistan are being bombarded by a devastating new British weapon — the text message.
Intelligence chiefs find out the numbers of the enemy’s mobile phones then send them waves of messages to confuse them and destroy morale, The Sun can reveal.
Texts range from simple abuse such as “We know who you are, give up” or “Go home, you’ll never beat us”. Others are disguised as messages from comrades to spread duff information. And attacks on Royal Marine commandos in lawless Helmand province are DOWN in the last month since the mind games began.
The text attacks are carried out by the 15 (UK) Psychological Operations Group, based at the Intelligence Corps’ HQ in Chicksands, Bedfordshire.
A military source in Afghanistan said: “If they know their fight is pointless, they are quite likely to give up.”
thesun.co.uk
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Still the best and, pound for pound, the deadliest army in the world.
