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Undersea Cables May Have Been Cut By Saboteurs

Via The National Terror Alert Response Center.

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, said.

More here.

Note: I'm not quite sure how I fell about posting this information, since I feel that the accuracy of it might be highly suspect, if not completely disingenuous. In any event, I present it here for your perusal.

Plus, my previous experiences of working with the ITU has been quite negative in the past -- they do not seem to have a firm grasp of reality.

-ferg

posted by Fergie @ 2/18/2008 11:47:00 PM