IRAQWAR.RU: 100 vehicles disabled by weather, Franks criticized

[John Mage]

It's a great site Steven, and US intelligence is working hard to shut it
down. In your first post you didn't post the entire daily report in
English from "Venik" due to a concern about "fair use." That's not a
problem (free legal advice-JM). If Doug doesn't object to the use of the
bandwith, I think we should post the daily report (todays is
<http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news078.htm>) here as a way of
doing our bit to keep the free flow of information going despite the US
spooks.

john mage

Moscow Times
March 25, 2003
Russians Flock to the Net for Latest From Iraq
By Larisa Naumenko
Staff Writer
...

The Internet site, www.iraqwar.ru, created especially to cover the war in
Iraq by participants of the Military Historical Forum-2, at www.vif2.ru,
has
seen some 45,000 unique visits since the U.S. forces crossed the border in
pursuit of Saddam Hussein, the site's spokesman Konstantin Prokhortsev said.

He added that traffic might have been even higher had it not been for
numerous attacks on the site from hackers since they launched the site last
week.

Prokhortsev said he thought most of the attacks have come from U.S.
Internet
users, judging from the IP addresses.

This, he thought, was "the manifestation of the U.S. statement that
Russians
are to blame for their problems in the United States."

Referring to the United States, he said, "Just like they enjoy bombing
[Iraq], they enjoy attacking sites like ours. It makes it nearly impossible
for us to regularly update information on our web site and make it
accessible to our visitors."

...