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On: How Technology Failed in Iraq

We are warned not to complain about our submisions being rejected but /. was given this story in nearly identical form back on Oct 13:

Where technology fell down in the Iraq conflict Wednesday October 13, @12:30AM Rejected

One thing pointed out in that submission was that the "technology" failure essentially paralleled a problem that plagued the internet "boom" of the dot com era: connection to users , the "last mile" gap.