Five Cables Cut! FIVE!
Is Israel planning an attack or flexing their superior technological muscles?
...how five -- not one, not two, not three, not four, but five -- giant undersea telecom cables, supplying the Middle East and India with access to the 'Tubes, managed to get damaged in such a short time?
Cut cable disrupts Web and phones in India and Middle East
Sea Saw: Five Undersea Cables Cut So Far
In this strange maritime epidemic the number of undersea cables cut in incidents around the Middle East and South Asia.
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Internet cables to India cut? Oh, nooo. How will I get tech support? Oh, nooo.
Posted by: clyde | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 07:41 PM
My homeowner's association hires gardeners who've cut into my internet cables several times... perhaps we've outsourced manganese nodule harvesting* to Mexico too?
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Glomar_Explorer_(T-AG-193)
Posted by: MontyRockIV | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 08:11 PM
Ha ha I thought the only way you got your cable cut was when you didn't pay you bill! So much for humor, Israel please kick the palis a#%es.
Posted by: AMartinez | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 08:37 PM
The internet still ain't gonna buy the moron paleo's an infrastructure- those people couldn't buy a clue with a million cluebucks. Stuck on stupid, the lot of them.
Posted by: SalamiBaloney | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 09:59 PM
Four of the cables are in the Persian Gulf and one is in the Mediterranean Sea off of Sinai. Therefore, the media bigots think that since one cable is cut in a somewhat proximity to Israel, then Israel must be responsible for it and all other cut cables as well. However, Iran has submarines. Al-Qaeda and Hamas may have Iranian trained divers.
One thing about those Persian Gulf cables. If they support India's internet access, then that adds yet another major miltary power pissed off at Iran. India's navy can ferry lots of troops from its western border into Iran's already troublesome province of Baluchistan.
chsw
Posted by: chsw | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 10:59 PM
"Giant undersea cables" makes sense in reference to their length, not their thickness nor durability. A dragged anchor would take one out. This does not need Israeli supertechnology. It does not need subs or deep-sea divers.
Now if you want to tap into one to eavesdrop -- the USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) is the boat for you. That's a lot harder a task to accomplish.
Posted by: Fritz | Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 11:58 PM
What if it's the Chinese or Russians trying to see how easy it is to disrupt communications? Or insert some sort of listening interface?
Posted by: cnoname | Thursday, February 07, 2008 at 11:57 AM