February 21, 2008
Cellphones are bringing Pakistanis together
For nearly seven years, Osama bin Laden, the world's most-wanted terrorist, has eluded the best intelligence officers, military spy drones and orbiting satellites in a hideout believed to be in the northern part of the autonomous tribal region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. IHT reports.
"But now, a far more mundane technology - mobile phone service - is rolling out across Pakistan and the surrounding region. Some experts say it could, in the end, make it increasingly difficult for bin Laden to evade capture.
... Security experts say no one believes that bin Laden is carrying a mobile phone or using technology that could leave a digital trail.
But with 65 million people using mobile phones each day in Pakistan, the country is much more wired together than it was when bin Laden disappeared, which may be bad news for terrorists in general."
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