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I don't know how to take information like this:

Taliban militants blew up a telecom tower Friday in southern Afghanistan following a warning to phone companies to shut down the towers at night or face attack.

The militants fear U.S. and other foreign troops are using mobile phone signals to track insurgents and launch attacks against them.

A Taliban spokesman on Monday said militants would blow up towers across Afghanistan if the companies did not switch off their signals overnight.

Insurgents made good on that threat today, destroying a tower along the main highway in the Zhari district of Kandahar province, said Niaz Mohammad Serhadi, the top government official in Zhari.

Does it hurt the image of the insurgents or of the Afghan government and coalition forces more? One Kandahar businessman might curse the Taliban for making his life more difficult by interrupting the most important and widespread means of civilian mass-communication in the country. Another might blame the government and ISAF for not providing enough security to prevent such a disruption.

I guess it depends upon whose Information Operations are more effective on the issue. And if that's the case, I suspect it's theirs, not ours.