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> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:21:00 -0800
> From: "Scott Francis" <>
> Subject: Re: Another cablecut - sri lanka to suez Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption
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> On Feb 1, 2008 6:37 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/third-undersea-cable-reportedly-cut/story.aspx?guid={1AAB2A79-E983-4E0E-BC39-68A120DC16D9}
> >
> > "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.
