IRAQ: FIRST INTERNET CAFE OPENS IN TIKRIT.

Record ID: 648405

  • Title: IRAQ: FIRST INTERNET CAFE OPENS IN TIKRIT.
  • Date: 23rd August 2003
  • Summary: (U3) TIKRIT, IRAQ (AUGUST 23, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. U.S. ARMOURED BRADLEY VEHICLE PARKED IN FRONT OF INTERNET CAFE 2. LIEUTENANT COLONEL D RUSSELL, COMMANDER OF FIRST BATTALION, 22ND INFANTRY REGIMENT, AND HASHIN HASSAN, MANAGER OF INTERNET CAFE, CUTTING THE RIBBON TO OPEN THE CAFE 3. IRAQIS SITTING BY COMPUTERS 4. CLOSEUP OF SCREEN OF BIOGRAPHY OF GEORGE W BUSH THAT SOMEONE WAS READING 5. CLOSEUP OF SCREEN OF CARTOON OF GEORGE W BUSH AND SADDAM HUSSEIN 6. CLOSEUP OF IRAQI USING INTERNET 7. COLONEL D RUSSEL AND HASHIN HASSAN INSIDE THE INTERNET CAFE 8. SOUNDBITE (English) INTERNET CAFE OWNER, HASHIN HASSAN, ASKED IF HE FEARS ATTACKS ON THE INTERNET CAFE BECAUSE U.S. TROOPS FACILITATED IT, SAYING: "This is to serve people, not to serve Americans. we are serving Iraqi people, so whoever acts against this is acting against Iraqi people. 9. U.S. SOLDIERS PASSING THROUGH DOOR 10. INTERIOR SHOT OF INTERNET CAFE Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 7th September 2003 13:00
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  • Location: TIKRIT, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA919VUFHZNMV3XSGLI8ANH2U06
  • Story Text: The first Internet cafe has opened to Tikrit.



    U.S. troops facilitated the opening of the first
    internet cafe in Tikrit, in northern Iraq, on Saturday
    (August 23).

    Lieutenant Colonel D. Russell, of the U.S. First
    Battalion and cafe manager Hashin Hassan cut the ribbon to
    open the cafe, which is the first of its kind in Tikrit.

    The cafe expects to serve 25 to 30 customers a day, and
    hopes to have more customers as people learn about the
    internet cafe. It costs one United States dollar to use the
    equipment, which is provided by NEConnect from Dubai.

    Manager Hashin Hassan said he expects no trouble or
    attacks on the cafe because it is there to serve the Iraqi
    people.




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