Saboteurs may have cut Mideast telecom cables: UN agency

afp ^ | 2/18/08 | afp

[Flavius]

DOHA (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.

[Flavius]

A map showing Internet cable links between Europe, Asia and the Middle East. 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 has said. (AFP/Graphic/File/Anibal MaizCaceres)

[Sacajaweau]

Duh...

[Flavius]

well common it is the UN

[Randy Larsen]

Brainiacs!

One of those “NO SH1T!” observations.

[G Larry]

I can’t believe the dateline on this story is “DOHA”.....

[GOPJ]

Ditto to the Duh...

[G8 Diplomat]

Maybe it was those Iranian sub captains trying to fix their busted submarines....”Hey Abdul, pass the wire cutters, I found the problem”...*snip*...”Oh crap! I cut the internet cable....Allahu fubar!”

[Grut]

[xJones]

I wonder what might be coming up, with disrupting such a large telecom undersea network? Quo bono?

[xJones]

I wonder what might be coming up, with disrupting such a large telecom undersea network? Quo bono?

[xJones]

Damn hiccups.

[papasmurf]

Ya’ think?

[wastedyears]

[RightWhale]

It is heart-warming when an Official Agency reports what everybody knows already.

[Chode]

do I really have to say it???

[jwalburg]

You don’t say...

[fso301]

The initial cuts coincided with the strike in Pakistan against an AQ HVT

[Red_Devil 232]

The submarine was adapted from ancient clay Babalonian "Olive oil" jar stolen days after the US victory in Iraq!

[John Robie]

Does anyone know if Southern Command’s communications go through these cables? Either way Iran is the obvious suspect.

[John Robie]

Make that Central Command.

[bobby.223]

it was mike nelson.

[musicman]

Saboteurs may have cut Mideast telecom cables: UN agency..

[Publius6961]

Well, if the only areas those cables serve are sandmaggot countries, what's the problem?
The can send terrorist instructions and propaganda videos by camel caravan...

[blackdog]

Exactly. If Islam wants to cut internet and telecom cables, if they do it then let their governments contract and pay for fixing them. If they won’t then fine. Leave em cut.

[LiberConservative]

I thought it was sharks with frickin’ laser beams on their heads.

[wastedyears]

[crazyhorse691]

Everybody already knows that Bush had explosive charges secreted upon the cables at the time of deployment so as to further the cause of the global Cabal (who is responsible for solar system wide global warming amongst other nefarious schemes too numerous to list).

[the invisib1e hand]

gee, thanks for that invaluable and timely lead, UN.

[exit82]

I see Captain Obvious is doing pro bono work at the UN these days.

[OPS4]

The question is? Did the order to cut the cable come from one of the missions at the U.N.?