However, tonight I am not able to reach the few Iraq servers I know about. The servers were reachable on Monday, but I wasn't keeping constant track of those servers. So I don't know when I could no longer reach them. This may just be normal network flakiness, the Iraqi networks aren't very reliable on a normal day.
The Iraqi News Agency (http://www.uruklink.net/iraqnews/eindex.htm) web site, and other servers I've been checking, appear to be reachable again. It may have just been "normal" network flakiness. CNN.COM is still running in breaking news mode, but other major news sites have switched back to their "big" pages. Advertisements and pop-ups seem to coming back on news sites. Matrix systems shows a slight latency increase overnight, but has returned normal levels.