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Saboteurs may have cut Mideast telecom cables: UN agency
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| 2/18/08
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Posted on 02/18/2008 3:47:10 PM PST by 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.
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KEYWORDS: cables; doha; internet; maritime; middleeast; muslim; sabotge; telecom; terrorism; un; underseacables
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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)
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posted on
02/18/2008 3:47:11 PM PST
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Flavius
To: Flavius
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posted on
02/18/2008 3:48:40 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
To: Sacajaweau
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posted on
02/18/2008 3:50:05 PM PST
by
Flavius
(24/7)
To: Flavius
Brainiacs!
One of those “NO SH1T!” observations.
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posted on
02/18/2008 3:50:22 PM PST
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Randy Larsen
(Arrogance IS my virtue!)
To: Flavius
I can’t believe the dateline on this story is “DOHA”.....
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posted on
02/18/2008 3:51:50 PM PST
by
G Larry
(HILLARY CARE = DYING IN LINE!)
To: Sacajaweau
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posted on
02/18/2008 3:52:23 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(Obama didn't get one counted vote in Harlem's 94th. Not one. Will Texas and Ohio cheat next?)
To: Flavius
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!”
To: Flavius
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posted on
02/18/2008 3:53:04 PM PST
by
Grut
To: Flavius
I wonder what might be coming up, with disrupting such a large telecom undersea network? Quo bono?
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posted on
02/18/2008 3:58:14 PM PST
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xJones
To: Flavius
I wonder what might be coming up, with disrupting such a large telecom undersea network? Quo bono?
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posted on
02/18/2008 3:58:15 PM PST
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xJones
To: xJones
Damn hiccups.
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posted on
02/18/2008 3:58:52 PM PST
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xJones
To: Flavius
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posted on
02/18/2008 3:59:01 PM PST
by
papasmurf
(Calm down! I've got Greenspan's book, you jerk!)
To: Flavius
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posted on
02/18/2008 4:00:24 PM PST
by
wastedyears
(This is my BOOMSTICK)
To: Flavius
It is heart-warming when an Official Agency reports what everybody knows already.
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posted on
02/18/2008 4:00:51 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
To: Flavius
do I really have to say it???
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posted on
02/18/2008 4:01:29 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: Flavius
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posted on
02/18/2008 4:01:57 PM PST
by
jwalburg
(Gullible warming protesters are self-extinguishing)
To: Flavius
The initial cuts coincided with the strike in Pakistan against an AQ HVT
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02/18/2008 4:04:41 PM PST
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fso301
To: G8 Diplomat
The submarine was adapted from ancient clay Babalonian "Olive oil" jar stolen days after the US victory in Iraq!
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posted on
02/18/2008 4:05:38 PM PST
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Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Flavius
Does anyone know if Southern Command’s communications go through these cables? Either way Iran is the obvious suspect.
To: John Robie
Make that Central Command.
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