<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Bagdad, Tasmania under heavy cyber fire</title></head><body> <div><font size="-3" color="#000000" >http://www.smh.com.au/text/articles/2003/04/05/1049459862442.htm</font ></div> <div><font size="-3" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font size="-3" color="#000000">Bagdad, Tasmania under heavy cyber fire</font><br> <font size="-3" color="#000000"></font></div> <div><font size="-3" color="#000000">Sydney Morning Herald</font></div> <div><font size="-3" color="#000000">April 6 2003</font></div> <div><font size="-3" color="#000000"><br> The website of the tiny town of Bagdad in Tasmania, Australia is being bombarded by confused surfers from around the world trying to get through to Iraqis.<br> <br> Hits to the Bagdad Online Access Centre have more than doubled to 15,000 a day since the war on Iraq began two weeks ago, the website's coordinator Lorraine Bennett said yesterday.<br> <br> Ms Bennett said most of the hits were messages of support meant for the residents of its namesake Baghdad, in Iraq.<br> <br> "We're getting messages from Yugoslavia, Italy all over the world," Mrs Bennett told AAP.<br> <br> "I've tried to reply to as many as I can; telling them this is not Iraq, it's Tasmania, Australia.<br> <br> "Some people have really put their heart and soul into it but there is just so many.<br> <br> Mrs Bennett said of the messages she could understand - many are in another language - most were encouraging,.<br> <br> "A lot of them are telling us good luck in these hard times and to mind the bombs," she said.<br> <br> Bagdad, a small rural community north of Hobart, has a population of about 650.<br> <br> AAP</font><br> <font size="-3" color="#000000"></font></div> </body> </html>