In the past two days, four undersea internet cables have been severed, putting parts of the Middle East in an information black-out. You’ll never guess which parts. These links are to four different incidents.
Egypt, Middle East (unspecified) and South Asia
Currently, Iran has no internet service. As in Zero.
Israel has been unaffected by this sudden rash of “accidental” undersea cable cuts.
Ships are rushing to the area to fix all these cut cables, but it will be days until normal service is restored.
I don’t mean to sound negative, but honestly, just imagine if something bad happened in the Middle East in the next couple of days. The people in Iran and Egypt, for example, would be cut off from the rest of the world and unable to send or receive vital information. The rest of the world would be forced to turn to the nearest available sources, like Israel, who as I said, has been unaffected by this run of very bad luck.
All kinds of things could happen in the “confusion”.
This is a good a time as any to pray.
UPDATE: Here’s another report from CNN which only talks about two incidents. It’s unclear to me how many incidents there actually have been, but it’s at least two and perhaps four. Hey news organizations, how about a map of these undersea cables? This whole incident definitely has an economic component as well as offering cover for a false flag military operation.
#1 by malcontent on February 1, 2008 - 11:40 am
Looks like the cover story for taking important lines out of service for upgrades to me.
Any idea what companies are involved in the “clean-up crew”?
#2 by Marlena on February 1, 2008 - 12:03 pm
Why would they need a cover story for upgrades? People understand upgrades.
I think it’s to black out the ME so they have room to do something very evil under the cover of information darkness, if you will.
No idea which ships/crews are going out to “fix” things.
#3 by malcontent on February 1, 2008 - 3:43 pm
Perhaps there is a bit of “screw you” in the manners of the situation but physically disconnecting the cables and inserting a new switch to divert *everything* to a collection database with a tag denoting where it was collected can be very useful. It costs money to re-engineer the BGP and OSPF protocols to overcome the service outage.
Perhaps they don’t feel the savages deserve any humanity? How about audacity to rub mud on their shoes while they update the communications lines.
I believe that we are genuinely unable, up to this point, to gather communications from Axis Of Evil nations in any useful way. Whether it is physical diversion or hiring translators that aren’t double agents, the logistics of observation are clearly stated objectives that have not lived up to expectations so far.
They’ve been too busy intercepting domestic traffic to bother with impotent threats like Iran or AQ… But now that the reins of power are about to shift, they are making a last minute shift of resources to cover their tracks.
It is speculation of course but given this administration’s penchant for secrecy and control it would be irresponsible not to assume deception.