Who Cut the Cables

This is of course no accident. It's a major undertaking to cut an undersea cable. It's an even greater undertaking to repair one. American infrastructure is vulnerable to low tech sabotage. For the most part, it only takes a few guys with minimum equipment and training to cut power, gas, oil and communication lines. Our system was laid out and developed without any hint that we might be attacked by a fanatical religion bent on our destruction. If you see something, say something.
FROM ATLASSHRUGS:

Who Cut the Cables
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(hat tip Liam)


Uh oh, folks! Maybe it is time to be more concerned about terrorists cutting those undersea cables in the Middle East.
CNN and the International Herald Tribune both report that, early today (Friday) local time, another cable was cut, this time in the Persian Gulf, about 35 miles off Dubai.
The abiguity in previous news reporting about whether one or two fiber optic cables were cut in the Med on Tuesday, and whether they were cut in the same place 8 miles off Alexandria or at opposite ends of the Med at the same time, has been replaced by a much worse conundrum. It’s not at all ambiguous now that at least two distinct cables were cut about 250 miles apart, on opposite sides of the huge Arabian Peninsula landmass.
What could possibly account for such sudden and nearly crippling impairment of Internet access, e-mail, and phone lines? Granted it’s still early hours as of this writing, but a Dubai telecom executive told AP that the cause hadn’t yet been identified, and this latest service outage was “very unusual.” Congestion in the Middle East and parts of India has gotten severe, following so quickly after the break(s) on Tuesday. (If you think the U.S. is immune to these problems, remember how dependent American businesses and consumers are on support outsourced to India.)