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struggle4progress

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Wed Feb 3, 2016, 09:50 PM Feb 2016

Last Line Of Communication With Militants Cut [View all]

by John Sepulvado OPB | Feb. 3, 2016 3:09 p.m. | Updated: Feb. 3, 2016 4:24 p.m.

For the past 72 hours, OPB has communicated with militants still occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge by calling militant David Fry’s personal cellphone ...

Fry .. told OPB that the FBI warned them if he or the others inside gave comments to press groups, they would lose access to incoming calls ...

OPB reached out to the camp at 1:30 p.m. ... but the line was busy and remained so ...

At 2:15 p.m., OPB received a call from a blocked number. The anonymous caller said that all lines of communication to the militants still inside the refuge had been cut at 12:50 p.m. and that further calls and updates would not be possible. The caller declined multiple requests to identify himself ...


http://www.opb.org/news/series/burns-oregon-standoff-bundy-militia-news-updates/communication-militants-cut-malheur-refuge-oregon-occupation/

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