Posted on 02/06/2008 10:34:16 AM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at d-silence.com ...
I don’t think so. I think it’s a planned move to cut off internet, perhaps because of something that’s coming down that would impact the Middle East. Just my opinion, of course.
It's Rottweilers. Rottweilers are doing it.
I saw them.
The site smacks of Ron Paul-type kookery.
SEA-ME-WE?
This may turn into see-me-wee-wee.
Angry jihad swordfish, angry at the stuff being piped over the Internet.
Ha! You’re right.
I didn’t check who wrote it before I started reading - I was beginning to think it was Al Jazeera, or some such, and then I see it’s some idiot in the Northwest...
Internet cables have been out all over the Middle East....this is no coincidence. I remember the terrorists claiming they were going to start an “internet jihad” but why would they do it to their own countries? I assumed it would be directed at us....
LOL!
Does Homer Simpson have something to do with this?
Also forgot “Undersea internet cable damages linked to global warming.”
“There was a communications blackout in Syria just before their airstrike on the nuclear site. It affected phone networks in Lebanon at the time.”
It could also be to force them to use alternate means of communication which are more easily intercepted.
Nah, it’s Bush’s fault ;)
It probably has something to do with Iran’s submarines....
“Probably that creepy Verizon Geek.”
Bush pushed the button and says “Can you hear me now?”
Oh cmon, their nuke program is entirely peaceful.
/sarc
Agreed.
Some very large something must be afoot.
Sobering.
I'll venture a guess. Retoric from terrorists on the increase, an attempt to slow their communications?
Great map - Thank you.
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