A fifth undersea communications cable damaged (Whats going on?)

Digital Silence ^ | February 6, 2008, 9:21 am

[maquiladora]

What is going on?? It appears that a fifth undersea communications cable has been damaged. The latest...an estimated 1.7 million Internet users in the UAE have been affected by the recent undersea cable damage.

A total of five cables being operated by two submarine cable operators have been damaged with a fault in each. These are SeaMeWe-4 (South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4) near Penang, Malaysia, the FLAG Europe-Asia near Alexandria, FLAG near the Dubai coast, FALCON near Bandar Abbas in Iran and SeaMeWe-4, also near Alexandria.

[maquiladora]

Almost impossible this is a coincidence, so whats happening here?

[battlecry]

Somebody is getting careless.

[Paleo Conservative]

Who is doing this?

[Born Conservative]

Bush...

[phs3]

ping

[NorCoGOP]

Iran has a submarine or two, right?

I'm just saying...

[Ben Mugged]

I wonder where those Iranian submarines are?

[Red Badger]

Al-Queada trying to isolate the muslim world from the real truth?......

[Argus]

AlQaeda attacking the soft underbelly of the infrastructure of global capitalism. Info-terrorism.

[maquiladora]

Some more info :

Reports are coming in this morning that a fifth undersea fiber optic cable was severed in the Middle East. However, by several accounts, the fifth cable cut is actually a second cut on a different segment of the FALCON cable. How exactly these cables are being cut is still unknown, though Egyptian officials maintain a ship didn’t cause the breakages near the port of Alexandria. -

http://www.dailytech.com/Bad+to+Worse+Fifth+Undersea+Cable+Cut+in+Middle+East/article10598c.htm

[fishtank]

Jihad.

[West Coast Conservative]

Rove...

[Tallguy]

Ivy Bells? Anybody seen the USS Jimmy Carter lately?

[Ben Mugged]

Great minds and all that stuff......

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Wow, the plot thickens....PING!!!

[glide625]

One man’s analysis:
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2919.shtml

[JOAT]

Somebody is getting careless.

One or two is 'careless.'

FIVE is deliberate, targeted action.

[EggsAckley]

I have thought since the beginning of this thing that there’s no way it’s accidental or coincidental.

Funny we’re not hearing a thing about it from the media.

[BigFinn]

AquaJihad: 50,000 leagues under the sea.

[baclava]

The alien UFO undersea bases are getting in the way of our cables again.

[Jeff Head]

Not a ship...but perhaps a sub? Iran?

My bet is that naval forces, particularly US ones, are now alert and will be watching...and may well already know what is going on.

[weegee]

CAPTAIN NEMO STRIKES!

[Zuben Elgenubi]

What is the nature of the damage? You can’t find the reason for the damage until you evaluate the type and scope of the damage. You have a link to that?

[ClearCase_guy]

FIVE is deliberate, targeted action.

And not subtle either. I don't know who's doing it or why -- but I sure know that somebody is up to something.

[Khepri]

Iran just launched a couple of addditional subs recently. The Iranian people are getting too much info from outside. They fear uprising.

Step in Russia fresh off their suggestion that they would pre-emptively nuke us. They floated the idea in the press that it might signal another “Imperialist Expansion” about to be undertaken the the evil US.

According every leftwing nutjob rag in the US has picked up on that and run with it.

In the meantime Iran gets a twofer...cut off their own people and blame it on the US.

Push the button Mr. President.

[purpleraine]

20,000 jihads under the sea

[3AngelaD]

If true, hilarious.

[Red_Devil 232]

When you attempt to advance beyound the year 632 then anything is possible in the cult of mohammedism.

[Digital Sniper]

Almost impossible this is a coincidence, so whats happening here?

*hiding cable cutters behind my back* No idea. Nope...must be some kinda crazy coincidence.

[knittnmom]

SeaMeWe? Who’s the joker who came up with that one!?

[Scythian]

Perhaps we cut off Iran before we strike?

[OSHA]

[piytar]

“Bush...”

You forgot “Women and minorities hit hardest” (standard MSM meme), “Hillary/Pelosi promises investigation and impeachment,” and “Kuchinich blames aliens — but promises to impeach Bush anyway...”

[South40]

Who is doing this?

[Berlin_Freeper]

Made in China.

[nuconvert]

Iran is not cut off

[LambSlave]

The article you linked to is quite plausible; ties up a lot of loose ends...

[maquiladora]

There was a communications blackout in Syria just before their airstrike on the nuclear site. It affected phone networks in Lebanon at the time.

Makes you wonder if this is the prelude to something happening in the region...

Some more things to remember, which may be coincidence or not :

* The San Jacinto has docked outside Haifa, Israel. "The American boat can anchor at Haifa Port and use Tomahawk missiles to attack targets in Tehran," Yiftah Shafir from the Israel Institute for National Security Studies explained the expected arrival of the American missile boat, the San Jacinto. .... However, security officials refused to confirm the reason for the arrival of the American boat in Israel.

* A Russian aircraft carrier is expected to set anchor soon at the Syrian port of Tartus, after preparations are completed there for anchoring the huge ship. - http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=19263183&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=618959&rfi=6

[wtc911]

Who is doing this?

_____________________________________

I think it's that guy....you know....

[mkjessup]

Push the button Mr. President

What? And derail the train to Legacyville?

Surely you jest!

[chuckles]

Suits me as long as the ragheads are the ones affected. Stops them from downloading their goat porn.

[Izzy Dunne]

It's those nude Hillary pictures, I tellya.

Some things a wire just won't carry...

[BallyBill]

Probably that creepy Verizon Geek.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

"The alien UFO undersea bases are getting in the way of our cables again."

Al Gore mad about not getting royalties for inventing the internet??

[maquiladora]

Locations of the cable damages -

[Liberty Valance]

[piytar]

He was doing OK with a unique (to me at least) theory until he got to this line: "The question is whether Bush will realize that America is already bogged down in two “unwinnable” conflicts or if he will “go with his gut” once again and lead us into a ruinous region-wide conflagration."

Guess he hasn't read the news about Iraq lately -- as in the last several months.

Re-read it with this line in mind and what I saw was a bunch of "Bush is EVIL, the dollar is EVIL, America's economy is DOOMED without the EVIL dollar tied to oil, the American EMPIRE is EVIL, they MUST be to blame" cr@p.

That said, the underlying point about the dollar being a real currency because it is tied to oil was interesting. In other words, we aren't on a gold standard anymore. We are on an oil standard. Bears some thought...

[LizardQueen]

I’ve been wondering if it’s a group of unemployed offshored IT people with a rented submarine...

LQ

[Squidpup]

guilty!

[Professional Engineer]

LOL