Internet Cafes of Baghdad
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It used to be that handwritten letters were about the only practical way for soldiers at war to correspond with family or friends back home. But today in Iraq, a year after the war began, most American troops can slip into a military-run Internet cafe to send and read e-mail, surf the Web, or place a call to the states over an Internet telephone.
Each cafe is equipped with about 20 Gateway laptop computers and four "voice over IP" phones.
U.S. soldiers check e-mail and surf the Web in a Baghdad cyber cafe.