[Gllug] [Very OT] Is Saddam a Linux fan?

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Ashley Evans wrote:

> Saw somewhere that the contries total external bandwidth doesn't exceed 
> 10Mbps. They apparantly have a few cyber cafe's too.

news.bbc.co.uk carried a report about cyber cafes in Baghdad.

The report stated that anyone is free to use them but that they are 
considerably more expensive than the average joe can afford (albeit 
cheaper than here in the UK).

I also got the impression from the report that the cafes are not subject 
to govt. interference of censorship.

The problem for Iraqi net access surely has been that we (the UK and US) 
have continued to bomb their communications facilities for the past 12 
years which does kind of make maintaining international networks 
difficult. Add to that the fact that there are various sanctions including 
tech ones against Iraq and it becomes fairly amazing they have as much 
connectivity as they do.

Jason Clifford
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