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Fifth Cable Cut, Iran Loses Net Connectivity
Slashdot ^ | 2/06/2008 | CmdrTaco

Posted on 02/06/2008 8:09:13 AM PST by sionnsar

You may have noticed a number of stories recently about undersea cables getting cut around the world. Apparently the total is now up to 5, but the scariest part of this is that Iran is now offline. You can also read Schneier's comments on this coincidence.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coincidence; internet; iran; justacoincidence; telecom
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To: quack
Iran is thought to have up to six Russian-built SSK or SSI Kilo class diesel submarines. As well as this domestically produced small submarine


61 posted on 02/06/2008 8:43:57 AM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)
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To: sionnsar

How do you make a computer out of the stone-age ?


62 posted on 02/06/2008 8:45:01 AM PST by yourmind (; ))
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To: bvw

Iran could do it without effecting other countries.It would actually be in their best interest to do so,to avoid detection from outsiders.


63 posted on 02/06/2008 8:45:51 AM PST by quack
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To: sionnsar

HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HI HJI


64 posted on 02/06/2008 8:46:31 AM PST by yourmind (; ))
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

It’s pretty strange seeing a cameltoe on Lloyd Bridges.


65 posted on 02/06/2008 8:47:09 AM PST by Erasmus (Exile from Gondwanaland)
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To: pangenesis
Red October February?
66 posted on 02/06/2008 8:47:40 AM PST by tubebender
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To: ArrogantBustard
Yes, everybody does have a submarine...





I wonder if it was these guys??? /cue spooky music
67 posted on 02/06/2008 8:48:08 AM PST by papasmurf
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To: ARE SOLE

Yeah,and Syria has Russian air defense systems.That worked well.


68 posted on 02/06/2008 8:49:58 AM PST by quack
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To: sionnsar

two ways to solve a crime
1...follow the money
2. listen to what you don’t hear

Hear any American authorized comments or speculations ?

me either


69 posted on 02/06/2008 8:50:01 AM PST by advertising guy (------> male..................)
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To: papasmurf

WTF?


70 posted on 02/06/2008 8:50:11 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: sionnsar

John Clark must be out there...somewhere.


71 posted on 02/06/2008 8:51:15 AM PST by JoanVarga ("¿Por qué no te calles?")
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To: pangenesis; BIGLOOK; LonePalm; Grampa Dave
If it were a NSA related tap it would have not been noticed, and certainly wouldn’t disrupt continued traffic by the target.
72 posted on 02/06/2008 8:52:15 AM PST by ASA Vet
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To: bvw
I read a blurb on ilovebonnie.net that eludes to the US, UK, and Israel. More to come later, they say.
73 posted on 02/06/2008 8:52:22 AM PST by papasmurf
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To: quack
"A sub that can go undetected in waters patrolled by US and UK ships?"

Answer:

Gotland class submarine

For almost a year the US Navy has been hunting a Swedish submarine, the HMS Gotland, off America's west coast.

The hunt is, of course, a one year training programme - but the Americans now want to extend the contract with the Swedish Navy.

Time after time, as part of the Americans' training in tracking down smaller vessels, the Swedish submarine and its crew have eluded their pursuers.

The programme started last summer but the US Navy has said that it would like to hire the Swedish submarine and crew for another year, reported the newspaper Blekinge Läns Tidning.

That is good news as far as the Swedish submarine flotilla is concerned, and it has already requested the government's permission to continue.

"Both the Americans and ourselves are interested in a continuation," said Jens Plambeck, chief of staff at the First Submarine Flotilla in Karlskrona.

The key to the HMS Gotland's success is the Stirling engines which allow the submarine to remain underwater for a unusually long time.

http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=3574

74 posted on 02/06/2008 8:52:50 AM PST by rednesss (Fred Thompson - 2008)
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To: Doctor Raoul

....of course it’s Bush’s fault.................


75 posted on 02/06/2008 8:52:57 AM PST by yoe ( NO THIRD TERM FOR THE CLINTON'S!!!)
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To: advertising guy

Also, we don’t hear imanutjob screeching about it, either.


76 posted on 02/06/2008 8:53:22 AM PST by papasmurf
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To: r9etb

It doesn’t explain all 5 cuts, unless they couldn’t figure out which one went their way and just started cutting at random until they got the desired result :)


77 posted on 02/06/2008 8:53:46 AM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Google for submarine found in Red Hook or submarine in New York harbor. :)


78 posted on 02/06/2008 8:54:39 AM PST by papasmurf
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To: quack

Yeah, but that one was only v1.1. Now, it’s been upgraded to v 1.2./sarc


79 posted on 02/06/2008 8:56:30 AM PST by papasmurf
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To: papasmurf

Teasers.


80 posted on 02/06/2008 9:00:07 AM PST by bvw
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