From: Sean Donelan (no email)
Date: Sun Feb 03 2008 - 20:22:20 EST
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i03tUdyj8wf2Xa9P4trWEjqAJdyQ
DOHA (AFP) . An undersea telecoms cable linking Qatar to the United Arab
Emirates was damaged, disrupting services, telecommunications provider
Qtel said on Sunday, the latest such incident in less than a week.
The cable was damaged between the Qatari island of Haloul and the UAE
island of Das on Friday, Qtel's head of communications Adel al Mutawa told
AFP.
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Marcus H. Sachs wrote:
> Sean, do you have any URLs with additional info on the new cut? Questions
> are being asked.
>
> Marc
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:] On Behalf Of Sean
> Donelan
> Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 6:52 PM
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> Subject: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)
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> A fourth submarine cable in the middle east was damaged Sunday
> between Haloul, Qatar and Das, United Arab Emirates.
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> This is in addition to the damage affecting FLAG, SAE-ME-WE4, FALCON
> cables.
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> Afer reviewing surveillance video of the area, Egypt's ministry of
> maritime transportation is reporting no ships were near the FLAG or
> SAE-ME-WE4 cables 12-hours before or after the cable damage near
> Alexanderia, Egypt. The reason for outage of the cables has
> not been identified yet.
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