Iraqis use internet to survive war (BBC)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Andrew North
BBC News, Baghdad

Google is playing an unlikely role in the Iraq war. Its online satellite map of the world, Google Earth, is being used to help people survive sectarian violence in Baghdad.

As the communal bloodshed has worsened, some Iraqis have set up advice websites to help others avoid the death squads.

One tip - on the Iraq League site, one of the best known - is for people to draw up maps of their local area using Google Earth's detailed imagery of Baghdad so they can work out escape routes and routes to block.

It's another example of the central role technology plays in the conflict - with the widespread use of mobile phones, satellite television as well as the internet - by all sides and for many purposes.
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With Google Earth, the Iraq League website suggests, people can also work out the most likely approach of their attackers.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6357129.stm

What a sad, bizarre situation ... Web-saviness is now a survival skill, and not in any metaphorical sense. The whole article makes sad reading.

Where do you want to go today ... without getting killed?

[UnyieldingHierophant]

1. Where do you want to go today ... without getting killed?

:rofl:

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. That's funny?

:wow:

[Nickster]

2. That's assuming that they have electricity to turn on a computer to get to the Internets to use The

Googles.

[Jeanette in FL]

4. Stories like this always make me think of Riverbend

and how we haven't heard from her since Dec. 31, 2006.

I wonder how she is making out and the safety of her family.