Taliban Suffers Tweet-Fail, Blames 'Enemy Plot'

The perils of modern technology can prove too great even for one of the world's leading terrorist organizations: The Taliban's spokesman in Afghanistan, Zabihullah Mujahid, was busily tweeting about an attack on Friday when he suffered an apparent tweet-fail: The tweet contained geolocation data indicating that he was tweeting from Sindh, Pakistan. Mujahid did what any public figure in such a predicament would do: He yesterday issued another tweet blaming the error on an "enemy plot." He also gave out his Afghanistan phone number and said, "With full confidence, I can say that I am in my own country." The AP notes Twitter's own warning about geolocation information: "Remember, once you post something online, it's out there for others to see." (More Taliban stories.)