Undersea Internet cables cut in Middle East... again. NOTHING TO SEE HERE. (1 Viewer)

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/04/2153455.htm
Ships did not cut internet cables


Two cables were damaged earlier this week in the Mediterranean sea and another off the coast of Dubai, causing widespread disruption to internet and international telephone services in Egypt, Gulf Arab states and South Asia.
A fourth cable linking Qatar to the United Arab Emirates was damaged on Sunday causing yet more disruptions, telecommunication provider Qtel said.
Egypt's transport ministry said footage recorded by onshore video cameras of the location of the cables showed no maritime traffic in the area when the cables were damaged.
"The ministry's maritime transport committee reviewed footage covering the period of 12 hours before and 12 hours after the cables were cut and no ships sailed the area," a statement said.
"The area is also marked on maps as a no-go zone and it is therefore ruled out that the damage to the cables was caused by ships."
Earlier reports said that the damage had been caused by ships that had been diverted off their usual route because of bad weather.
A repair ship is expected to begin work to fix the two Mediterranean cables on Tuesday.
- AFP
 
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Giuliani would have sorted that shit right out.


And it would have stayed sorted out.


The cause of damage is not yet known, but ArabianBusiness.com has been told unofficially the problem is related to the power system and not the result of a ship's anchor cutting the cable, as is thought to be the case in the other three incidents.

It is expected to take at least "a few days" to fix, according to one person with knowledge of the situation.

Oh man. I lol'd.
 
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Breaking Fiber trunks are like buses.
You wait for one for ages, and then 5 come along all at once.


Ah yeah. Its not really a fifth cut though, because... ehh, its ehh another accidental break, on a cable that was already accidentally broken, just in a different place. On the same cable. Cut. Twice... By accident.

And ehh...OH LOOK!!! THERE'S A SHINY THING OVER THERE!
 
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has anyone seen the USS Jimmy Carter lately?

Carter is roughly 100 feet (30 m) longer than the other two ships of her class. This is due to the insertion of a section known as the Multi-Mission Platform (MMP), which allows launch and recovery of ROVs and Navy SEAL forces. The plug features a fairing over a wasp-waist shaped passageway allowing crew to pass between the fore and aft sections of the hull while providing a space to store ROVs and special equipment that may need to launch and recover from the submarine. The MMP may also be used as an underwater splicing chamber for tapping of undersea fiber optic cables.
 
http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/ConnectingTheDots.htm
The evidence therefore suggests that we are looking at a coordinated program of undersea cable sabotage by an actor, or actors, on the international stage with an anti-Muslim bias, as well as a proclivity for destructive violence in the Middle Eastern region.

The question then becomes: are there any actors on the international stage who exhibit a strong, anti-Muslim bias in their foreign relations, who have the technical capability to carry out clandestine sabotage operations on the sea floor, and who have exhibited a pattern of violently destructive policies towards Muslim peoples and nations, especially in the Middle East region?

The answer is yes, there are two: Israel and the United States of America.

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What's going on here? The US or Israel are cutting the internet from Arab/Muslim states? Is that it? What's the rationale for that? Am I completely thick? Answers to the first 4 questions only please.
 

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