Army wives get phone death threats from Iraq

This story is about U.K. soldiers. But, it could just as easily be U.S. soldiers. The Royal Military Police "has issued a warning to all soldiers in Iraq to take great care when using mobile telephones to call home." That warning should be heeded by our military as well. What kind of people would threaten innocent women and children?

Army wives get phone death threats from Iraq

By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent(Filed: 25/06/2006)

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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