I guess I will have to go back and edit this story about the Taliban hating the mobile phone by destroying towers? Obviously the iPhone changed their mind. lol. This also reminded me of the Taliban using Skype story as well. Anyone seeing a trend? –Matt
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Mullah Zaif, the former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, says he is ‘addicted’ to his iPhone
iPhones and the Taliban:
February 7, 2009
Somewhere outside Kabul
Mullah Zaif, the former Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, says he is ‘addicted’ to his iPhone
I could not believe my eyes. We had arrived to interview Mullah Zaif, the Taliban’s former ambassador to Pakistan who is now under virtual house-arrest on the outskirts of Kabul, when he walked into the room, sat down on the couch and pulled out an iPhone.
A former member of the Taliban! An iPhone! How times have changed.
During Taliban rule, which ended when the US and its allies rolled in and took control of Kabul in 2001, the leadership had banned just about anything associated with modern technology.