Middle East connections

I had someone from Kuwait downloading from me recently. A video (non-copyright.) I've previously had people from Iraq & Afghanistan download from me in years past. I guess boredom in their time off gets to them. lol Though in this case may have been a Kuwaiti citizen or someone working over there, military or business reasons.

It made me wonder, now is this a Kuwaiti citizen or the Hizabolleh or .. lol jk

LOTR

If you grabbed the IP you may be able to tell if the person concerned is a citizen or part of some government organisation. However, as for Hezbollah I guess that will have to remain a mystery for another day.


UK Bob

Was it a bomb-making video? lol

Chances are that it was someone in the US military. We still have many troops in Kuwait, (the only country that gives us a discount on fuel), and our planned troop withdrawal from Iraq will swell our ranks in Kuwait. Or it could be another of our allies (seems the US can't put on a decent war without dragging our Aussie friends into it).

Modern warfare is mostly quite boring. Nowadays, an army moves on far more than its stomach. Faster weapons fire more ammo, so more time is spent on re-supply. My ACAV got 3 miles to each gallon of diesel; more modern machinations have not improved on that. In Vietnam there were 15 troops in the rear area for each one of us in the bush; in Iraq the ratio is 25 to 1. ("REMFs" = rear echelon mother f...). Thus, many troops with much free time (though some REMFs work 12 hrs/day).

lol

Tonight had someone from Al Khartum, Sudan downloading from me. A Windows FW user it seems.
I've had people from Egypt and Saudi Arabia download from me in the past.

These bomb-making videos must be popular lol joking.

Had someone from Iran download a video. They were using LW 4.18.
Nothing surprises me. I guess it might have been a proxy.