With help from troops, Iraqis surf Web

With help from troops, Iraqis surf Web
Associated Press

TIKRIT, IRAQ--The first words Ahmed Abdullah typed in the Google search engine were "George Bush."

The 19-year-old wanted to access the president's Web site, something he couldn't do under restricted and tightly controlled Internet service during former President Saddam Hussein's rule.

On Saturday, Saddam's hometown of Tikrit got its first postwar Internet cafe, where residents could browse any site without fear of being monitored or blocked.

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But for Tikrit's young men -- no women were sitting by the computers -- browsing the Net for $1 an hour is an opportunity to learn, see and explore things unavailable until now.


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http://www.charleston.net/stories/082403/ter_24net.shtml


...where residents could browse any site without fear of being monitored or blocked. hmmm...not monitored? says whom?

will have a lot of new members.

No?

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I'd like to apologize personally to as many Iraqis as I can.

was doing it long before the invasion.

Thanks.

to email to people in Iraq the word that DU exists. Went to http://mesa.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/ (MESA, your MetaEmailSearchAgent} and copied in the name found in this article (Ahmed Abdullah), and another found in this article, http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/06/02/1054406106416.html (Amr Bakr). Got several email reuslts. So, wonder if emailing people would help, or, if that would be considered spamming since there's no way of telling if the email addresses actually belong to people accessing the Internet in Iraq, would there a way for DU as an entity to make its Internet presence known to the Iraqis now back online? Their input to discussion and first-hand experience and insight could prove invaluable to the US public at large.

Just pondering...

http://www.almuajaha.com/

Try posting something there, perhaps. It's an open publishing newswire.

I can hear our president proudly proclaiming, " Today for the first time a citizen of Tikrit was allowed to freely surf to a porn site."