I imagine the people of Baghdad and the other cities in Iraq that have been without hard disks and services now for months will be getting some wry satisfaction from hearing about this.

That is a reference to a post I made in the thread about the big US/ Canada power cut. True enough, my hard disc is a small enough trouble, and I'm quite aware of it. However don't imagine that Baghdad doesn't have its Internet users - particularly Salam Pax "the Baghdad Blogger"

And here is a piece from him in The Guardian