Crank calls to military wives from Iraq?

Yes, according to this article: British Army wives get phone death threats from Iraq. 

"Wives and family members of soldiers fighting in Iraq have received telephone calls, believed to include death threats, from insurgents, according to military documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph. The "nuisance" calls have been made with increasing frequency over the past few weeks after insurgents managed to obtain home numbers from soldiers' mobile telephones. The growing number of calls has led to an investigation by the Royal Military Police, which has issued a warning to all soldiers in Iraq to take great care when using mobile telephones to call home.
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The document warns soldiers preparing to take part in operations that insurgents in southern Iraq have managed to obtain the home telephone numbers of soldiers by using electronic intercept devices to hack into mobile phone systems. It is understood that the threats range from claims that a husband or son is dead or will be killed fighting in Iraq, to verbal abuse. Many of those who have received calls say that they were made by people with a poor command of English or with a Middle Eastern accent."

You wanna pick on somebody?  Go ahead, we all know you're gonna do it anyway because you're disgusting cowardly terrorists (that's why we're ridding the world of you).  But you might think twice before picking on MILITARY wives! 

I can definitely see an Army wife coming back with "I will kick your terror-loving, sand-sucking ass and then, THEN turn you over to my husband you pathetic piece of sh**."  Or maybe that's just me (though I'm Royal Marine Commando wife, not Army, but I would think in this instance it wouldn't matter). 

Thanks to this post from MilBlogs.

Comments

[Patriot Xeno]

I believe you're Royal Commando FIANCE, not wife.

Unless you got married without telling or inviting me.
*shakes fist*

[Kath]

Heh, yeah, but I will be a wife in 6 short (gosh I hope so) months. Unless, the evil terrorists decide to start bothering me early, in which case I'll just have to dispose of them earlier.

Fiance or wife, the end result would be the same :o)

[jwookie]

And besides, we all know you've got the firepower to take down at least a dozen terrorists should they be stupid enough to actually try something... In fact I can see you hunting a few down just for the crank call.

You go girl...

[Kath]

Aw, thanks! I like to think I was raised to protect myself. I have the feeling a lot of us would do the same ;o)

[charlie]

As a brit RM wife, i'm with you on that one, good answer! Good blog

[Kath]

Glad you think so! Nice to meet you Charlie. Hope you come back, it'd be awesome to hear the opinions of a geniune British RM wife!

[Kath]

Charlie: Love your site! I've added your blog to my links - I wanted to tell you on your blog, but you only let blogger bloggers (that sounds funny...) comment, not "others." If you ever decide to change that, I'd love to comment on your posts :o)