British Muslims 'providing Taliban with electronic devices for roadside bombs'

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Source: Daily Telegraph

The devices, which enable Taliban fighters to detonate roadside bombs by remote control, are either sent to sympathizers in the region, or carried by volunteers who fly to Pakistan and then make their way across the border.

Details of how British electronic components have been found in roadside bombs were given to David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, when he visited British troops at their military compound at Lashkagar, in Helmand province, earlier this week.

In a briefing on British operations in southern Afghanistan by Brigadier Gordon Messenger, the Royal Marine commander of the British battlegroup, Mr Miliband was shown examples of the crude, home-made devices that are being used in attacks against British patrols.

They included mobile phones filled with explosives, which could kill or seriously injure British soldiers patrolling on foot, and more sophisticated devices that can be used against military vehicles.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/4736032/British-Muslims-providing-Taliban-with-electronic-devices-for-roadside-bombs.html

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1. Very obvious & nebulous propaganda!

Reading the article doesn't offer any proof, or even evidence, that "British Muslims" are in any way involved in providing British manufactured components or devices to anyone, anywhere.

Pure speculation motivated by the need to ramp up the sheeple's fear to rationalize sending/wasting more precious resources and soldiers to Afghanistan.

The specious headline is repeated immediately in the story's only photo caption.

Believe it or not(!) our man Obama is demanding 8300 British soldiers/citizens to be sent to Afghanistan!

What chutzpah!

That is just completely nuts!

To get this lead balloon off the ground is going to take a Herculean propaganda push...

And here it comes!

[FreakinDJ]

2. Exactly - they would know who's phone it was

Isn't that how they tracked down most of the Spain Bombers?

So where are all the arrest?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

3. It's the TELEGRAPH,

Britain's purveyor of anti=Muslim prejudice to the right wing middle class.

[truebrit71]

6. The Daily Torygraph is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Any questions?

....good, I didn't think so...

[Sandrine for you]

4. Bomb bomb bomb London !!

[Downwinder]

5. Look who's complaining about Globalization, now!! n/t