The Suspicious Case of the Undersea Cables (1 Viewer)
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Mystery shrouds four Internet cable cuts
CAIRO: A ship's anchor severed one undersea Internet cable damaged last week, it was revealed yesterday amid ongoing power cuts in the Middle East and South Asia, but mystery shrouds what caused another four reported cuts.
There has been speculation that five cables being cut in almost as many days was too much of a coincidence and that sabotage must have been involved.
Repair work on the cable which broke on February 1 and the Flag Europe Asia cable, one of the two that were cut off Egypt's Mediterranean coast were expected to be completed by Sunday. There was no word on the state of the second severed Mediterranean cable, SEA-ME-WE4. A fourth cable linking Qatar to the UAE was also damaged.
Egypt has already excluded ships as the cause of damage to the Mediterranean cables thanks to footage recorded by onshore video cameras which showed no traffic in the area when the damage occurred.
With so many cables cut, speculation has risen as to whether the power cuts, unprecedented in the region, were coincidence or something more nefarious.
"Bloggers have speculated that the cutting of so many cables in a matter of days is too much of a coincidence and must be sabotage. Theories include a US-backed bid to cut off arch-foe Iran's Internet access, terrorists piloting midget submarines or "vengeful militant dolphins."
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=208156&Sn=WORL&IssueID=30325
CAIRO: A ship's anchor severed one undersea Internet cable damaged last week, it was revealed yesterday amid ongoing power cuts in the Middle East and South Asia, but mystery shrouds what caused another four reported cuts.
There has been speculation that five cables being cut in almost as many days was too much of a coincidence and that sabotage must have been involved.
Repair work on the cable which broke on February 1 and the Flag Europe Asia cable, one of the two that were cut off Egypt's Mediterranean coast were expected to be completed by Sunday. There was no word on the state of the second severed Mediterranean cable, SEA-ME-WE4. A fourth cable linking Qatar to the UAE was also damaged.
Egypt has already excluded ships as the cause of damage to the Mediterranean cables thanks to footage recorded by onshore video cameras which showed no traffic in the area when the damage occurred.
With so many cables cut, speculation has risen as to whether the power cuts, unprecedented in the region, were coincidence or something more nefarious.
"Bloggers have speculated that the cutting of so many cables in a matter of days is too much of a coincidence and must be sabotage. Theories include a US-backed bid to cut off arch-foe Iran's Internet access, terrorists piloting midget submarines or "vengeful militant dolphins."
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=208156&Sn=WORL&IssueID=30325
