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CIA Factbook Iraq 2002

Telephones - main lines in use: 675,000 (1997)
Telephones - mobile cellular: NA; service available in northern Iraq (2001)
Telephone system:  general assessment: reconstitution of damaged telecommunication facilities began after the Gulf war; most damaged facilities have been rebuilt
domestic: the network consists of coaxial cables and microwave radio relay links
international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Atlantic Ocean region), and 1 Arabsat (inoperative); coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Jordan, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey; Kuwait line is probably nonoperational
Radio broadcast stations: AM 19 (5 are inactive), FM 51, shortwave 4 (1998)
Radios: 4.85 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 13 (1997)
Televisions: 1.75 million (1997)
Internet country code: .iq
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 1 (2000)
Internet users: 12,500 (2001)

• Network Reliability
• Iraq War and Information Security F-Secure
• Keynote Iraq War Internet Performance Reports

Internet Traffic Report
Matrix ISP Rating
Internet Weather Report
Internet Health Report (Keynote)
• News Websites
• Babil Online  Iraqi newspaper website run by Saddam Hussein's son Uday (still operational April 15, 2003)
• Baghdadlink.net Website of Iraqi government
• Warkaa.net domain name of Iraqi government
• Al Jazeera website
• reportedly the Al Jazeera website is hosted by NavLink in France.  Pro-U.S. message replaces Aljazeera.net CNET Mar 27, 2003
• Saddam's televised tour of Baghdad Windows Streaming Media
• Iraq Body Count
• Blogs
• Blogging the War: A Guide Wash Post
• LT-Smash Blog
• Where is Raed (offering description of last updated March 24, 2003 - reports from an Iraqi from the suburbs of Baghdad) The Guardian: On Salam Pax's Blog Circulars March 25, 2003
• Abu Aardvark
• BBC Reporters' Log: War in Iraq
• Iraq ISPs
• Warkaa
• Uruklink.net http://62.145.94.111/
• dot IQ ccTLD
• Iraq TLD In Legal Limbo, Slashdot 9/12/2005
• Iraq seeks '.IQ' domain to make its mark on Net, USA Today 6/4/2004
• Committee for Information Technology Reconstruction in Iraq
• Slashdot rabble on the subject
• .IQ IANA WHOIS
• Elashi inditement
• Traacking of the .IQ domain
• Iraq Goes Offline, Salon March 31
• Iraqi National Congress (opposition to Saddam)
• Voices in the Wilderness (campaign to end economic sanctions against Iraq)
• The Iraqi Internet, Rado Netherlands, April 15, 2003
• Global Diffusion of Internet: Iraq: 1998

• Internet use spreading throughout Iraq, USA Today 11/15/2005
• Web site to be Iraq's first independent news service, IHT 7/19/2005
• Iraqis seek self-rule on the net, BBC 6/29/2004
• U.S. can't block coffin photos, Newsday 4/27/2004
• Pentagon Ban on Pictures of Dead Troops Is Broken, NYTimes 4/23/2004
• Internet cafe clicks with troops in Tikrit, CNN 12/5/2003
• Al-Jazeera hacker sentenced, CNET 11/14/2003
• Iraq awards mobile licences, BBC 10/6/03
• Iraq goes with GSM, USA Today 10/6/03
• Calling Baghdad, USA Today 9/29/03
• Iraq request includes $2 billion for IT, FCW 9/24/03
• Al-Jazeera relaunches English Web site, CNN 9/2/03
• Iraq mobile-phone bids under review, RCR 9/2/03
• Tight rules for Iraq mobile bids, BBC 8/4/03
• First Internet Café in Iraq to use Inmarsat's Regional BGAN, AME 7/30/03
• Iraqis Log On to Voice Chat, Wired 7/28/03
• Phone services spring up in Iraq, BBC 7/25/03
• Iraq back on the Net, Radio Netherlands 7/25/03
• In Baghdad, cell phones spring to life, MSNBC 7/23/03
• US Company Provides Telephone, E-Mail, Internet in Baghdad, PRNewswire 7/23/03
• Iraqi telecoms bid by Batelco, Gulf News 7/23/03
• Mobile networks launched in Baghdad, Daily News 7/23/03
• Bechtel gets $45 million for Iraq communications, MSNBC 7/14/03
• Hold the phone in Iraq, USA Today 7/11/03
• GSM vendor sets up office in Iraq, Cellular News 6/24/03
• The net war that routed Iraq, Australia IT 6/20/03
• Google gag becomes big hit: No Weapons of Mass Destruction Here, CNN 7/16/03
• Iraq virtual archive planned, BBC 6/2/03
• Iraqis scramble to restore Internet, CNN 6/2/03
• Al-Jazeera hacker pleads guilty, BBC 6/16/03
• Al-Jazeera Cracker Charged, Register 6/12/03
• Al-Jazeera hack solved, USA Today 6/12/03
• Iraqis Scramble To Restore Internet, MSNBC 5/28/03
• The net war that routed Iraq, Australia IT 6/20/03
• Western Union has eye on Iraq, Rocky Mountain News 6/19/03
• Internet cafes springing up in Iraq, Mercury 6/19/03
• Egypt's OT to bid for Iraq GSM license, Middle East Online 6/19/03
• Satellite Telephones Assist in Rebuilding of Iraq, PRNewswire 6/19/03
• Iraq to open up airwaves, BBC 6/19/03
• US bypasses Qualcomm's technology for Iraq, North County Times 6/19/03
• U.S. calls for GSM on Iraq airwaves, CNET 6/16/03
• Iraq a no-phone zone, USA Today 6/16/03
• Iraqis Scramble To Restore Internet, MSNBC 5/28/03
• The Iraqi Internet, Radio Netherlands 4/17/03
• Battlefield Internet Gets First War Use, MSNBC 4/17/03
• On the Ground in Iraq, the Best Compass Is in the Sky, NYT 4/17/03
• Iraqi's Road Home, by Way of the Web, NYT 4/17/03
• Saddam Hussein becomes unlikely internet celebrity, BBC 4/14/03
• Missing Iraqi Minister Now Cult Figure, ABC 4/14/03
• Iraqi minister fan site gets too popular, CNN 4/14/03
• Iraqi minister fan site gets too popular, CNN 4/14/03
• Wacky Iraqi Minister a Web Star, Wired 4/13/03
• 'Comical Ali' is Iraq's star, News24 4/13/03
• Saddam curios for sale online, BBC 4/11/03
• Arab Web Sites Bemoan Iraq 'Occupation', ABC 4/11/03
• Iraq war swamps the web, BBC 4/11/03
• Saddam Thrives on EBay, BBC 4/11/03
• Iraqi minister becomes Net star, CNET 4/11/03
• DARPA picks BAE to lead 'WolfPack', FCW 4/11/03
• Web Site for Iraqi Minister Rocks Cyberspace, Reuters 4/11/03
• U.S. Behind Schedule in Iraqi TV Block, ABC 4/9/03
• US turns to net for war updates, BBC 4/9/03
• Iraq, its domain and the 'terrorist-funding' owner, Register 4/9/03
• War Sparks Flood of Spam, Wash Post 4/9/03
• The Data Gaps of Digital Warfare, BWO 4/8/03
• War sparks Web censorship debate, CNET 4/8/03
• Germany restricts game it says glorifies war, CNET 4/8/03
• Antiwar hacker strikes the U.S. Navy, CNET 4/8/03
• Antiwar protesters join 'virtual march', CNET 4/8/03
• Fighting cyberterrorism in wartime, CNET 4/8/03
• Akamai ends Al-Jazeera server support, CNET 4/7/03
• War, disease drive up conferencing, CNET 4/7/03
• How the web makes 'desk-chair generals' of us all, BBC 4/7/03
• Keeping in Touch Virtually, ABC 4/4/03
• Al-Jazeera site tackles hackers, BBC 4/4/03
• Al-Jazeera site tackles hackers, BBC 4/1/03
• Soldier 'bloggers' report from war, CNN 4/1/03
• Hackers plan attacks to protest war, MSNBC 4/1/03
• Hack Attack on Al-Jazeera Raises Questions, Newsfactor 4/1/03
• Hackers Condemn Arab Site Hack, Wired 4/1/03
• Hackers cripple al-Jazeera sites, BBC 3/28/03
• Anti-war hacking rises sharply, BBC 3/28/03
• Commuters hack wireless networks, BBC 3/28/03
• Al-Jazeera Web site hacked, CNN 3/28/03
• Anti-war protesters go digita, CNN 3/28/03
• Web gamblers wager on Saddam's future, CNN 3/28/03
• Iraq War Sparks Tit-For- Tat Hacker Attacks, Excite 3/28/03
• A personal account of Baghdad under attack, Bankok 3/28/03
• A 'blog' goes silent, and world holds its breath, Mercury 3/28/03
• Net users focus on war news, NWFusion 3/28/03
• Al-Jazeera domain hijacked, NWFusion 3/28/03
• Iraq War Sparks Tit-For-Tat Hacker Attacks, Reuters 3/28/03
• Al-Qaeda, Alaska, USA Today 3/28/03
• Iraqi Dead Counted, Not Forgotten, Wired 3/28/03
• Hackers Beat Up on Al-Jazeera, Wired 3/28/03
• Anti-war hacking rises dramatically, BBC 3/24/03
• Life in Baghdad via the web, BBC 3/24/03
• Swedes nab Ganda worm suspect, CNET 3/24/03
• Al Jazeera launches English service, MSNBC 3/24/03
• Al-Jazeera's site crashes after 1 day, Mercury 3/24/03
• Study: War Shouldn't Mean Less IT Spending, CMP 3/24/03
• Germany restricts game it says glorifies war, NYT 3/24/03
• Rocker Kravitz Releases Peace Song with Iraqi Star, Reuters 3/24/03
• Iraqi Uses Web to Chronicle a City Under the Bombs, Reuters 3/24/03
• Iraq virus writer pleads for a better education, Sophos 3/21/03
• Virus Capitalizes On Iraq War Interest, Internetweek 3/21/03
• War Ousts Sex and Britney in Internet Searches, Reuters 3/21/03
• Israel warns Web sites on war coverage, CNET 3/21/03
• Cyberspace an Invisible Front in War on Terrorism, Newsfactor 3/21/03
• Iraq conflict hits websites hard, BBC 3/21/03
• E-mail virus exploits war interest, BBC 3/21/03
• Phone, TV, Net, still working inside Iraq, MSNBC 3/21/03
• War Prompts Digital Mayhem, Wash Post 3/21/03
• War briefly draws traffic to news sites, CNET 4/28/03
• E-mail spoofers target Arab activists, MSNBC 4/21/03
• Internet: Pew Internet Survey Finds Americans Look Online for Breaking News on the Iraq War, ITAA 4/17/03
• ABCNews: Arab Web Sites Plagued by Attacks, ABC 4/17/03
• Iraq virus writer pleads for a better education, Sophos 3/21/03
• Virus Capitalizes On Iraq War Interest, Internetweek 3/21/03
• War Ousts Sex and Britney in Internet Searches, Reuters 3/21/03
• Israel warns Web sites on war coverage, CNET 3/21/03
• Cyberspace an Invisible Front in War on Terrorism, Newsfactor 3/21/03
• Iraq conflict hits websites hard, BBC 3/21/03
• E-mail virus exploits war interest, BBC 3/21/03
• Phone, TV, Net, still working inside Iraq, MSNBC 3/21/03
• War Prompts Digital Mayhem, Wash Post 3/21/03
• U.S. Forces Counting on High-Tech Tools, ABC 3/19/03
• War in Real Time, ABC 3/19/03
• The Technological Advantage, Wash Post 3/19/03
• Iraq war could herald a new age of Web-based news coverage, USA Today 3/19/03
• E-mail boosts military morale, but some fear risks, MSNBC 3/17/03
• Cyber terrorism 'overhyped', BBC 3/14/03
• Military to Clamp Down on E-Mail, NYT 3/12/03
• Antiwar Song, With Whimsy, NYT 3/12/03
• Unleashing the dogs of cyber-war on Iraq!, Salon 3/5/03
• Fierce cyber war predicted, CNN 3/5/03
• 'Virtual' War Protest Ties Up Senate Phones, Reuters 2/26/03
• An Antiwar Demonstration That Does Not Take to the Streets, NYT 2/26/03
• Firing Leaflets and Electrons, U.S. Wages Information War, NYT 2/24/03
• Reuters to stream video of Iraq conflict, CNET 3/19/03
• US.mil launches Operation Desert Spam, Register 1/27/03
• DOD Confirms Iraq E-mail Campaign, FCW 1/17/03
• US Hackers Told To Leave Iraq Alone, BBC 2/14/03
• Pro-Islamic Hackers Gear Up For Cyber War Reuters 10/30/02
• Ebomb may see first use in Iraq, Escientist 8/9/02