RE: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

From: Randy Epstein (no email)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2008 - 18:40:24 EST

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    RodBeck said:

    >Telecommunication facilities have rarely been targets of terrorism. There
    is only one known case - the Tamil Tigers destroyed a central office in Sri
    Lanka some years back. My guess is that terrorists want to kill people, not
    destroy optical muxes, >Class 5 switches, and the like.

    Actually, last year, Scotland Yard claimed Al Qaeda planned on blowing up
    one of the Telehouse facilities in the UK:
    http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/garfinkel/17561/

    Randy


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