WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The Federal Communications Commission is investigating a series of "robo-calls" that led to evacuations at a U.S. military base last year, a spokesman said.
The spokesman told The Miami Herald that the pre-recorded calls from a Haitian presidential candidate shouting in Creole spooked the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
The calls went out in the weeks prior to Haiti's November election to anyone who had ever placed a call to Haiti.
"There were people who didn't understand what it was and speculated it was a terrorist threat in a foreign language," said Fort Bragg spokesman Ben Abel.
Abel said two or three buildings where the calls came in were evacuated and swept for explosives.
The automated calls by Haitian presidential candidate Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly may have violated the U.S. Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
A spokesman for the FCC would not reveal details of its investigation but said the commission was looking into the matter.
Copyright 2011 by United Press International
The spokesman told The Miami Herald that the pre-recorded calls from a Haitian presidential candidate shouting in Creole spooked the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
The calls went out in the weeks prior to Haiti's November election to anyone who had ever placed a call to Haiti.
"There were people who didn't understand what it was and speculated it was a terrorist threat in a foreign language," said Fort Bragg spokesman Ben Abel.
Abel said two or three buildings where the calls came in were evacuated and swept for explosives.
The automated calls by Haitian presidential candidate Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly may have violated the U.S. Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
A spokesman for the FCC would not reveal details of its investigation but said the commission was looking into the matter.
Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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