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US troops cut off from internet...

A week after a scandal broke involving photos of American troops torturing Iraqi prisoners, Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown, & Root is pulling the plug on private electronic communications with the folks back home, apparently at the request of the Department of Defence. See, for example, this note from military blogger ginmar:

I might be getting transferred within the next week to anotehr post. At the very least, KBR is not allowing any private computers on their system for the next ninety days. There might be one other option, but if you don't hear from me for a while...God, I don't know what I'll do about the kitty.

Edited to add: Screw it. No matter what it takes, I will get to my email.

The email cut-off has to do with the release of images last week, which made Bush and Rumsfield have 'some difficulties'
Democratic world as they say...

Posted on May 11, 2004
in Limit of my knowledge

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