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Iraq net shutdown temporarily

  • From: Sean Donelan
  • Date: Sun Jan 12 15:50:09 2003 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/12/MN125083.DTL

Baghdad -- Apparently in response to a blanket e-mail campaign by the U.S.
military urging dissent and defections, the Iraqi government shut down --
at least temporarily -- all Internet access and the country's two e-mail
servers.

Although no official explanation was given, e-mail service stopped
midafternoon on Friday. Some service was resumed Saturday morning.