Internet Helps Besieged Iraqis Stay in Touch With Outside World

BAGHDAD: With a girlfriend in Damascus, a mother and two brothers in Abu Dhabi, cousins in Amman and an uncle in Finland, Internet chats are the only way Baghdad merchant Hussein Karim can keep up with his widely dispersed family. "I couldn't do without instant messaging," Karim told AFP at his small mobile-phone kiosk - adorned with a misspelt sign in English that reads "Enter for Mobaile" - in Baghdad's inner Karrada neighborhood.
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