Mid East Cable Cuts Sabotage? No Way!
Posted on February 20, 2008 By: Mike, VoIP Facts: The Blog email author
Filed Under Commentary, Industry News
The Sydney Morning Herald reported on Tuesday that the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is looking into sabotage as a possible cause of the five submarine cable cuts that affected the Mid East and south Asian Internet and phone services in late January and early February.
While the investigation is ongoing, a spokesman said that the UN agency is not ruling out that it was a deliberate act of sabotage. “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,” said Sami al-Murshed, head of development.
Internet speculators have widely believed that five cable cuts in a two week period is just too much of a coincidence. Richard Stiennon’s Q&A with former counter terrorism advisor Richard Clark on ZDNet sheds some light on the world’s preparedness to handle such outages.
According to Murshed, “Some experts doubt the prevailing view that the cables were cut by accident, especially as the cables lie at great depths under the sea and are not passed over by ships.”
Hmmm. Dragging anchors across the ocean bottom - a new form of terrorism?
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