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Fragile and expendable, finger-thin undersea cables tie the world together: "The lines that tie the globe together by carrying phone calls and Internet traffic are just two-thirds of an inch (1.68 centimeters) thick where they lie on the ocean floor."
Flakey Cables-- Not FLakey CIA OPS-- Cutting Middle East Internet Access?
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Posted By: CLB Posted on: Feb. 4, 2008 at 11:01 AM  27 Comments
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In my never-ending quest to "Just Say No" to both left and right winger equivalents of Britney Spears hysteria (that would be most Conspiracy Theor-mongering) a little insight into just how "usual" it is for undersea optical cables to be broken. Figure in the fact that three alone run through the same channel and I think you have a good reason to get back to focusing on a few of the real crises-- like global heat death-- for example?
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Feb. 4, 2008 at 01:30:14 PM
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| Just you wait and listen. I'm sure Israel and AIPAC will be tied into the severing of these telecommunication cables shortly. Last I heard, they were responsible for the terrorist act on Jupiter when comet Shoemaker-Levy slammed into it in 1994.
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Feb. 4, 2008 at 02:34:45 PM
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| Heck, Doc, you're right. Clearly the Mossad and AIPAC had their hands in it.
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Feb. 6, 2008 at 09:23:12 PM
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| Connecting The Many Undersea Cut Cable Dots by Richard Sauder 4 February 2008 The last week has seen a spate of unexplained, cut, undersea communications cables that has severely disrupted communications in many countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. As I shall show, the total numbers of cut cables remain in question, but likely number as many as eight, and maybe nine or more. ... By my count, we are probably dealing with as many as eight, maybe even nine, unexplained cut or damaged undersea cables within the last week, and not the mere three or four that most mainstream news media outlets in the United States are presently reporting. Given all this cable-cutting mayhem in the last several days, who knows but what there may possibly be other cut and/or damaged cables that have not made it into the news cycle, because they are lost in the general cable-cutting noise by this point. Nevertheless, let me enumerate what I can, and keep in mind, I am not pulling these out of a hat; all of the sources are referenced at the conclusion of the article; you can click through and look at all the evidence that I have. It's there if you care to read through it all.
1) one off of Marseille, France 2) two off of Alexandria, Egypt 3) one off of Dubai, in the Persian Gulf 4) one off of Bandar Abbas, Iran in the Persian Gulf 5) one between Qatar and the UAE, in the Persian Gulf 6) one in the Suez, Egypt 7) one near Penang, Malaysia 8) initially unreported cable cut on 23 January 2008 (Persian Gulf?)
Three things stand out about these incidents:
1) all of them, save one, have occurred in waters near predominantly Muslim nations, causing disruption in those countries; 2) all but two of the cut/damaged cables are in Middle Eastern waters; 3) so many like incidents in such a short period of time suggests that they are not accidents, but are in fact deliberate acts, i.e., sabotage. http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/ConnectingTheDots.htm
Just keeps getting gooder and gooder..... |
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Feb. 6, 2008 at 09:41:57 PM
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| Well MiC and Phaedrus. Adam just proved your point.
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Feb. 7, 2008 at 11:14:03 AM
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| Well, if one wants to have a good idea if the Mystery of the Cut Cables is indeed the outcome of "sabotage", wouldn't one want to compare the same time frame to another time frame of similar length? And compare world-wide cable 'cuttings'? I mean 9 (of a total of how many cables now extending undersea worldwide-- is that 10% or .000001% of total cables? And is the average number of cable "cuttings" comparable? I mean, really...adam...come on. |
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Feb. 7, 2008 at 12:05:30 PM
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| How come aliens don't draw crop circles on the ocean floor? That would truly be impressive. Then I will believe!
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Feb. 7, 2008 at 12:22:18 PM
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[This is a reply to comment by CLB on Feb. 7, 2008 at 11:14:03 AM]
CLB
Feb. 7, 2008 at 11:14:03 AM Well, if one wants to have a good idea if the Mystery of the Cut Cables is indeed the outcome of "sabotage", wouldn't one want to compare the same time frame to another time frame of similar length? And compare world-wide cable... View this Comment
I am a filthy spammer, I deserve to be castrated in front of a live televised audience... Thanks for listening to me.
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Feb. 7, 2008 at 12:27:00 PM
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I am a filthy spammer, I deserve to be castrated in front of a live televised audience... Thanks for listening to me.
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Feb. 7, 2008 at 01:24:04 PM
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[This is a reply to comment by adam on Feb. 7, 2008 at 12:27:00 PM]
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Feb. 7, 2008 at 12:27:00 PM As of the moment of this writing, 5 internet cables–buried deep beneath the ocean floor to prevent them being accidentally dredged up by a been cut, preventing most of the Middle East from internet access. The cables provide 90% of the... View this Comment Actually, I don't think it is idle conspiracy-mongering to contemplate the idea that these cables were severed due to a man-made cause. Deliberate? Now that's a stretch. One would have to ask, to what end? They can be repaired within the week, communications can be rerouted, and satellite communications are unaffected. Now since international communication carried over these cables will be redirected while the cables are being repaired, and many of these communications will be rerouted through the US, one may speculate that the US sabotaged the lines so that they could legally intercept "terrorist" messages. Maybe CIA intelligence points to something afoot during the upcoming weeks, and we have urgent need to monitor as much traffic as we can. The two problems I have with this theory is that we can't even keep up with our own domestic wiretapping (let alone the rest of the world), and since when did the Bush Administration need a legal reason to do anything? The AP news speculates that an illegally or improperly anchored ship(s) caused the problem. The Japanese think it is Godzilla, Gamarra, or Mothra. I've done a lot of SCUBA diving, and I can tell you that a****** parrotfish will nip at almost anything. [link:www.theinternetpatrol.com] |
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