Well, pick it up, America!!!
You are paying for the call.
Related: U.S. Paying Taliban For Protection
Say what?
"US effort in Afghanistan focuses on cellphone use" by Indira A.R. Lakshmanan, Bloomberg News | April 3, 2010
WASHINGTON — The United States is betting about $263 million in 2010 that winning this campaign will help it prevail on the battlefield.
Out of the nearly $4 billion they are slated to receive.
The effort aims to turn public opinion against the Taliban....
Why would public opinion be on the side of throat-slitting terrorists -- unless....
Mobile phones also have the potential to fuel economic development by helping Afghans receive wages electronically and access services such as banking....
Sigh. At the bottom of it all. Is that really liberation?
Rear Admiral Greg Smith, head of public communications strategy for US and international military forces in Afghanistan, has a budget of almost $150 million for 2010.
I'm glad you didn't need that $$$ for anything, America, especially when it is basically for shoveling s***.
The State Department has $113 million to spend this year for civilian communications. The money will pay for new towers and projects such as developing community media outlets and supporting educational radio.
While your country is falling apart, America -- and after we annihilated this one.
Afghanistan, with 29 million people, had as many as 12 million cellular service subscribers in December, according to the Afghan government. Fifty-two percent of the population has access to a mobile phone at home, 65 percent of users send text messages, and more than half listen to FM radio through their phones, based on data in a 2009 survey by the San Francisco-based Asia Foundation. Afghans have formed message groups on road conditions, crop prices, and cash-for-work opportunities.
It is just the agenda in everything they publish, isn't it?
While coverage is growing in most places, a Taliban push since February 2008 to bomb or shut off power to phone towers at night has affected more than 200 of the 6,000 that the US military monitors, said Army Lieutenant Colonel Todd Breasseale, a spokesman in Kabul for NATO-led forces....
Yeah, you are breaking u.... call just dropped!!
Get used to that, too, Afghans.
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