Information Warfare has started!!!

Dr Who SG

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/04/2153974.htm?section=world

Is information warfare to blame for the damage to underwater internet cables that has interrupted internet service to millions of people in India and Egypt, or is it just a series of accidents?

When two cables in the Mediterranean were severed last week, it was put down to a mishap with a stray anchor.

Now a third cable has been cut, this time near Dubai. That, along with new evidence that ships' anchors are not to blame, has sparked theories about more sinister forces that could be at work.

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Info war has started.........it seems US is cutting internet access to IRAN and other Middle Eastern countries.

But why?

Dr Who SG

NEW DELHI (AFP) - - Another Middle East undersea Internet cable has been damaged, adding to disruption in Indian online services caused when several lines were cut earlier this week, a cable operating firm said Saturday.

The Falcon cable was cut 56 kilometres (35 miles) from Dubai, between Oman and the United Arab Emirates, according to its owner FLAG Telecom, part of India's Reliance Communications.

The company said on its website that a repair ship had been notified and was expected to arrive at the site in the next few days.

The cause of the latest cable damage was not immediately known.

Flag Telecom owns another undersea cable which was damaged off Egypt on Wednesday in the Mediterranean. Indian media reports have attributed that damage to a ship's anchor which dropped on the cable.

On the same day in Kuwait, the government reported two cables damaged by "weather conditions and maritime traffic."

http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080202/tbs-india-mideast-internet-558302b.html

edwin3060 SG

Interesting news... I did a quick check though, and Iranian government websites such as the website of the Iranian President are still up. Does that mean that these sites are not hosted in Iran?