Cable cuts

[storkus at storkus.com]

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:40:45 -0700, "Joshua Zeidner"
<jjzeidner at gmail.com> said:
> 
>  thought this is somewhat relevant and worth posting... very ominous
>  news:
> 
>   http://www.business-standard.com/common/news_article.php?leftnm=lmnu9&subLeft=2&autono=312626&tab=r
> 
>   _4th undersea cable snaps, Qatar-UAE traffic suffers disruption_
> 
>   ""...to have three undersea cables &#8211; or is it actually four cables?
> &#8211; cut in the same region in just a two-day span, strains credulity;
> the more so, when we look at how the damage has played out across the
> region... communication cable cutting in West Asia leaves Israel and
> Iraq still connected, while completely shutting down the Iranian
> internet. Funny how that works, isn't it?" asks a professor on his
> site. "
> 
>  -jmz