Mobile Phones Combat Taliban’s Afghan ‘Information Wastelands’

Business Week reports that the US "will be investing $263 million in 2010 to turn public opinion against the Taliban and develop a network that lets Afghans contact government officials and authorities talk to each other".

Related:

-- Radio, cell phones to help US in Afghanistan?

-- Once media-shy Taliban go hi-tech in propaganda war

-- British Intelligence bomb Taliban with SMS in psychological warfare

More on the Taliban and cell phones

Elsewhere:

-- Russian SMS text messages urge Chechen rebels to surrender

-- Lebanon. Psychological warfare on phone

-- Israel steps up "psy-ops" in Lebanon

emily | 10:22 PM | News, Buzz, SMS and Politics |
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