Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:21:00 -0800 From: "Scott Francis" <darkuncle@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
On Feb 1, 2008 6:37 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
"We had another cut today between Dubai and Muscat three hours back. The cable was about 80G capacity, it had telephone, Internet data, everything," one Flag official, who declined to be named, told Zawya Dow Jones. The cable, known as Falcon, delivers services to countries in the Mediterranean and Gulf region, he added.
this (3 undersea cables in about a week, serving the same geographic area, with two of the cuts happening on the same day!) is leaving the realm of improbability and approaching the realm of conspiracy ...
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence" comes to mind.