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How does cutting off communications prevent terrorist cells from executing their planned attacks? The real reason is obviously that the ruling elite usurped an

• dageshi 3y ago
  Bombs with mobile phones attached designed to trigger when the phone is called/texted?
  • jasonjayr 3y ago
    Cheap battery powered mesh radio devices could just as easily trigger something, and be difficult to trace.
• jstarfish 3y ago
  These are terror attacks, not three people trying to shoot the same target in a motorcade. It impedes their situational awareness. If they're waiting on signals that never come, you win. If you capture one, he can't warn the others. You know what they say about plans and first contact with the enemy...
• jrockway 3y ago
  I guess it's not a terrorist attack if nobody knows about it. Imagine you see the news "Poll site in the Bronx firebombed" right before you head out to vote. You're going to think twice about voting. But if you don't see that news story, you'll just go vote, because you don't know there's a risk of being killed. The logic makes sense but I wouldn't like to see a media ban here. "Congress shall make no law..."