Undersea Cable Terrorism Called, “Conspiracy Theory”
Alright, this is interesting… Warner sent us an email stating that a fourth undersea internet cable has been damaged… And, now officials are finally admitting that Iran has been the most seriously affected by the outages, and is now completely shut down… So, with this bit of info, we have to include Israel and the U.S. in our suspect list, along with the (oppressive) Iranian government, of course… The plot thickens!
View Graphs or Click a Router below for more detail.
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(Notice that Iran has zero packets going in or out…)
Flag plays down net blackout conspiracy theories
by Dylan Bowman on Monday, 04 February 2008
Arabian Business.com
Flag Telecom on Monday played down conspiracy theories over the recent damage to undersea cables that has seriously disrupted internet and international telecoms services across the region.
Two intercontinental cables connecting Europe and Asia were cut off the coast of Egypt on Wednesday, followed by breaks in two more cables off the UAE coast on Friday. Flag owns two of the affected cables.
The initial breaks affected internet access and international calls in Egypt, the Gulf and south Asia, while disruption resulting from damage to the latter two was centred around the Gulf region.
The location of the breaks and short space of time in which they have happened has sparked fears the cables were intentionally damaged by the US and Israel to deprive Iran of internet access.
“It seems now to be way beyond the realm of coincidence that a further 4th critical international communications cable should break within seven days,” one ArabianBusiness.com reader commented.
“Clearly Iran, who was most affected, would gain nothing from such an action and is perhaps the target of those responsible,” said another reader.
Those theories were fuelled further on Monday when Egypt said damage to the cables in the Mediterranean Sea was not caused by ships, as previously thought.
Egypt’s Transport Ministry said footage recorded by onshore video cameras of the location of the cables shows no maritime traffic in the area when the cables were damaged.
“The ministry’s maritime transport committee reviewed footage covering the period of 12 hours before and 12 hours after the cables were cut and no ships sailed the area,” a statement by the Communications Ministry said.
“The area is also marked on maps as a no-go zone and it is therefore ruled out that the damage to the cables was caused by ships.”
It is not clear how badly Iran’s internet access has been affected by the cable breaks.
The Iranian embassy in Abu Dhabi told ArabianBusiness.com that “everything is fine”, but internet connectivity reports on the web, citing a router in Tehran, appear to indicate that there is currently no connection to the outside world.
No one at the US embassy in Abu Dhabi was immediately available to comment.
A spokesperson for Flag said the cause of the breaks will not be known until repair ships reach the site of the damage.
The spokesperson admitted it did seem like a bit of a coincidence that all four were damaged within such a short space of time, but said it would be difficult to find the exact location of the cables.
“I think it is doubtful [the cable damage was intentional],” the spokesperson told ArabianBusiness.com.
Repair ships are expected to arrive at the site of the breaks in the Mediterranean on Tuesday and Friday.
The breaches are in segments of two intercontinental cables known as Sea-ME-We-4 and Flag Europe-Asia.
A ship was expected to depart Abu Dhabi port on Monday to fix the break in the third cable, called Falcon, off the coast of Dubai between the UAE and Oman.
The fourth break is located between the Qatari island of Haloul and the UAE island of Das. The cause of damage is not yet known, but ArabianBusiness.com has been told unofficially the problem is power related.
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4 February, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I tried to stay out of the cablegate thang but it is time to come clean. I know what happened to the cables.
Iranian pedophiles and sex addicts logged on to take advantage of the streaming videos of a new Saudi funded sex show called “What would Mohammed do”. It’s a new live action show where audience contestants are given the opportunity to recite their favorite Koranic verse and act it out.
With all the rape, pillage and burning going on the show became very popular (especially in Iran) and overloaded the cables. The overheated cable burst and a rumor quickly spread that the show was cancelled. Muslims immediately started, blogging, phone calling and logging on to blame the Jews for the canceling of the show and the increased bandwidth overloaded the rest of the cables and they also burst.
Muslims are now taking it out on sheep, goats and small rodents. Reportedly many marriages have resulted and Iranian President Ackmynadsareinajar has started staring in a one-man version of the show, shown exclusively on Iranian TV. The show has attracted a huge following of sexually depressed Muslimiah’s and elderly men.
If you try hard you can clearly hear them screaming “go stumpy, go stumpy, Allahu Ackbar”.
So, now you know and knowing is half the battle.
4 February, 2008 at 8:33 pm
…It’s just so horrible… Those poor small rodents… Where’s PETA when you need them???
4 February, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Ronin’s theory makes a lot more sense than anything I’ve heard about 9/11 other than Bin Loser doing it. The man is the Columbo of the Internet!
4 February, 2008 at 8:48 pm
You’re all wrong; it’s Flipper with boltcutters
US Navy considers deploying dolphins and sea lions in the war on terror
http://www.helium.com/tm/177734/whats-hottest-terror-dolphinsyeah
4 February, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Warner,
Good point! I had forgotten about Flipper… That makes perfect sense.
Cheers
5 February, 2008 at 12:44 am
It’s not Flipper, it’s a dingo in a wetsuit.
5 February, 2008 at 9:56 am
Hah. Those are funny.
The real reason, however, is that there were too many downloads of Hillary’s picture, and the fibers eventually melted.
5 February, 2008 at 1:43 pm
It’s so obvious. The cut cables are a sign to the faithful that Allah is angry with them for ignoring Sharia and that they should immediately cut their own heads off as a sign of obedience.
6 February, 2008 at 6:20 am
Update:
Possibly #5
http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/UAE/221875
6 February, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Columbo of the Internet! Now that is catchy, thanks my friend.
As soon as my head stops swelling I am going to get business cards made that say:
Ronin,
Columbo of the Internet!
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/
I can leave them inside of Mosques when I travel.