[bracgypsy]

Hi Everyone,
Just dropped in to say hello, and wish all of you guys the best of the best.

I do have a few questions that I hope someone here has an answer too!

I will need to explain before I ask the questions, so here goes.

Back in Sept. 2004 as you all well know there was a really bad devastating Hurricane hit the Cayman Islands. "Ivan"........... My husband and I had a very good friend working just north of Baghdad at the time Ivan hit the Cayman's.

To make a long story short we lost all power here for quite some time, and the commuications wasn't up to standards. So we lost contact with our friend who worked in Iraq for a few months. Then all power and commications were restored and wa-la we were back on Planet earth.

I got online to "Yahoo Advanced Member Search", to see if anyone in Iraq near Baghdad was online. I found hundreds of people on Yahoo members search. THEN WOW... I found a Journalist working at a Newspaper office in Baghdad online right then and there, so who better to ask than a Journalist from Baghdad Iraq about "if he had heard about Ivan hitting the Caymans. I knew if he had heard about Ivan, then our friend working in Iraq had heard about Ivan also. I know our friend would have at the least tried to contact us, but months after Ivan hit he had never contacted us. And to this day "3 years later" we have never heard anything from or about him at all. So we don't know what has happened to him.

NOW.... Since then' the Iraqi Journalist from Baghdad whom I have kept in close contact with since Ivan on Yahoo messenger has become a really great friend to both myself and my husband. We always chatted at least 3 to 4 times a week, now no word at all has come from him. I haven't chatted with him now since last month, 7/8/07.

My QUESTION is: Has something happened to the Internet Provider in Baghdad? Or could there be a power problem in that area? I know with all the bombing I hear about on the news there could be something like that wrong with the I.P. or power stations. BUT I am not sure at all.......

I am very worried about my Iraqi friend. Does anyone here have any answers?

Thanks so much!!
BracGypsy..........