[kictanet] UN: Saboteurs May Have Cut Mideast Telecom Cables

[Alex Gakuru]

Brian,

It would really help if you included links to your
sources on this very important or lucrative issue
(depends on the side), moreso when UN is mentioned

Asante  

Alex

--- brian <brian at caret.net> wrote:

> While the middle eastern cables are being hit (cut)
> by saboteurs. Another form of sabotage is being
> aimed at projects like our TEAMS. The article in
> this weeks papers give some indication but there is
> much more afoot as some of the "competing" cable
> projects try to put in all manner of blocks against
> our project.
> 
> Nevertheless, we shall overcome.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> Via: AFP:
> 
> Damage to several undersea telecom cables that
> caused outages across the Middle East and Asia could
> have been an act of sabotage, the International
> Telecommunication Union said on Monday.
> 
> “We do not want to preempt the results of ongoing
> investigations, but we do not rule out that a
> deliberate act of sabotage caused the damage to the
> undersea cables over two weeks ago,” the UN
> agency’s head of development, Sami al-Murshed,
> told AFP.
> 
> Five undersea cables were damaged in late January
> and early February leading to disruption to Internet
> and telephone services in parts of the Middle East
> and south Asia.
> 
> There has been speculation that the sheer number of
> cables being cut over such a short period was too
> much of a coincidence and that sabotage must have
> been involved.
> 
> India’s Flag telecom revealed on February 7 that
> the cut to the Falcon cable between the United Arab
> Emirates and Oman was caused by a ship’s anchor.
> But mystery shrouds what caused another four
> reported cuts.
> 
> “Some experts doubt the prevailing view that the
> cables were cut by accident, especially as the
> cables lie at great depths under the sea and are not
> passed over by ships,” Murshed said on the
> sidelines of a conference on cyber-crime held in
> Gulf state of Qatar.
> 
> The Falcon cable has since been repaired, along with
> the Flag Europe Asia (FEA) cable which was damaged
> off Egypt’s Mediterranean coast. The status of the
> remaining cable is still unclear.
> 
> 
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