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

[brian]

My best bet is always http://www.google.com   :-D

But just in case mouse-clicks are bit tiring: 

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/080218/technology/gulf_mideast_internet

B


On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:55:53 -0800 (PST), Alex Gakuru <alex.gakuru at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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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