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A Whole New World

Posted on | August 25, 2003 | 2 Comments

Iraqi’s get their first taste of unfiltered access to the web, thanks to an internet cafe set up with $24,000 from the 4th Infantry Division’s budget. Despite the potential risks of working or cooperating with Americans in the somewhat Saddam friendly Tikrit, they are happily plunking down $1 an hour for the privilege.

The first words Ahmed Abdullah typed in the Google search engine were “George Bush.”
The 19-year-old wanted to access the president’s website, something he couldn’t do under restricted and tightly controlled Internet service during Saddam Hussein’s rule.



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Category: politics

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2 Responses to “A Whole New World”

  1. ryan
    August 31st, 2003 @ 9:08 pm

    i don’t think he was looking for “george bush” per se.

  2. Vox
    August 31st, 2003 @ 9:22 pm

    I wonder if they put filters on to stop that kind of searching?
    You know even if the Iraqi’s weren’t lookin’ for it, some of the soldiers were 😉