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Tassie's Bagdad under friendly fire from e-mails

Web surfers seeking the latest developments on the war in Iraq have put Tasmania's small township of Bagdad under electronic siege.

Hits to the Bagdad Online Access Centre have more than doubled to 15,000 a day since the war in Iraq began two weeks ago.

Some of the confused website visitors even offer words of support for the people of Bagdad, says centre coordinator Lorraine Bennett.

"A lot of them are very encouraging and telling us to keep our head down and mind the bombs," she said.

"I think the scenario is that they are sending them to the wrong Bagdad and I'm just saying that we're in Tasmania, Australia, and we thank them for their good wishes and we hope that the people are fine."

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