101ST DONATES MORE THAN 230 COMPUTERS TO MOSUL CITY HALL

CENTCOM ^ | Dec. 11, 2003

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

	NEWS RELEASE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND 7115 South Boundary Boulevard MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101 Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894

December 11, 2003
Release Number: 03-12-27


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


101ST DONATES MORE THAN 230 COMPUTERS TO MOSUL CITY HALL

MOSUL, Iraq – A 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) program to provide computers to the employees of Mosul City Hall made its final contribution Thursday, bringing the total number of computers donated to more than 230.

The project has been in effect since September, and the last of the 233 computers were installed Thursday by Chief Warrant Officer Carrie McLeish and Master Sgt. Paul Franks, automation technicians for the division’s G-6 office. The team has been in charge of installing new computers and the Internet in several buildings in Northern Iraq, including the University of Mosul and the Oil Ministry of Nineveh Province. Coalition Forces have spent more than $150,000 on the project.

Every computer in Mosul City Hall donated by the 101st was also hooked to the Internet, offering better global communication than the workforce there has ever had access to. The project consequently will also allow Coalition Forces, as well as leaders from smaller cities and villages outside Mosul, to communicate with the governor of Nineveh Province, Ghanim al-Basso, whose office is in the city headquarters.

“This will allow Coalition Forces to communicate with the governor of Nineveh and it also allows the governor to communicate with citizens outside Mosul,” McLeish said.

Soldiers also installed Microsoft XP and Office XP to each computer.
“Microsoft XP is a lot better than [Microsoft 2000] in its Arabic translation,” McLeish said, “So it’s pretty useful to a lot of the workers here.”
Concurrent with the donation of computers and software, soldiers have also been training a group of Iraqi citizens to maintain the computer system after the division redeploys. McLeish said the three main targets for training are web page upkeep, basic computer skills and networking proficiency.

“We want to educate people on what Coalition Forces are doing here in Iraq,” McLeish said. “We want to stop misinformation about what our goals are here and provide Iraqis with a bigger picture. This is a big step.”

[gathersnomoss]

Has anyone heard of this on the major...sorry, crap networks? Noooooo.

I keep hearing over and over over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again about the 6 children murdered by our troops.

[caisson71]

We'll never read about this in the lamestream media. God bless our troops and the Scream'in Eagles.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Every computer in Mosul City Hall donated by the 101st was also hooked to the Internet, offering better global communication...will also allow Coalition Forces, as well as leaders from smaller cities and villages outside Mosul, to communicate with the governor of Nineveh Province...

“We want to educate people on what Coalition Forces are doing here in Iraq,” McLeish said. “We want to stop misinformation about what our goals are here and provide Iraqis with a bigger picture. This is a big step.”
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Troops bypassing Al Jazeera and AP to get the truth to the Iraqi people, ping!
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[McGavin999]

Just imagine, going from the 6th century into the 21st century overnight.

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[July 4th]

"Hey Hasan, what is this?"

"Oh, that's nothing to worry about, Mohammad. The Viagra spam comes with the computer."

[76834]

Cmon now.....
I tried XP and went back to 98 SE..
Everything else in the article is great!!!

[windchime]

Bump!

[RightOnline]

98SE over XP???? C'mon now..................

If you had said Win2K Professional, maybe.............but sheesh...............

[VOA]

Every computer in Mosul City Hall donated by the 101st was also hooked to the Internet,
offering better global communication than the workforce there has ever had access to.

(overheard in the evenings at Mosul City Hall...)
"Mohammed, I don't have time to be messing around with those improvised explosive devices...
I've got some real web-surfing to do. And my four wives are gonna' kill me if
I don't get those .jpgs of my four families downloaded from my digital camera and
printed out tonight!"

[blackie]

Troops bypassing Al Jazeera and AP to get the truth to the Iraqi people ~ Bump!