Cable breaks cut Internet in Mideast and South Asia

[Antaletriangle]

http://www.reuters.com/article/inter...4BJ0FV20081220

By Jonathan Wright

CAIRO (Reuters) - Breaks in three submarine cables which link Europe and the Middle East have disrupted Internet and international telephone services in parts of the Middle East and South Asia, officials said on Saturday.

The disruption reduced Egypt's Internet capacity by about 80 percent. Technicians were restoring some capacity by diverting communications traffic through the Red Sea, said a Communications Ministry official, who asked not to be named.

Users in the Middle East said Internet service was either non-existent or slow. The gravity of the outage, caused by breaks in cables in the Mediterranean off Italy, varied from area to area and according to the service provider.

The cause of the breaks was not immediately known.

In January, breaks in undersea cables off the Egyptian coast disrupted Internet access in Egypt, the Gulf region and south Asia, forcing service providers to reroute traffic and disrupting some businesses and financial dealings.

In Pakistan, Internet service provider Micronet Broadband said its customers were facing degraded Internet services because of "issues" on the SMW-3, SMW-4 and FLAG lines.

Micronet engineer Wajahat Basharat said on Saturday Internet traffic was slow and some was being diverted to other routes.

Etislat, the largest of two telecom firms in the United Arab Emirates, said it was using alternative routes to ensure continuity of service.

Users in the Gulf Arab nation said their connections were much slower than usual and suffered occasional disconnections.

Kuwait's Telecommunications Ministry said late on Friday it was trying to secure continued services until the damage to the cables was repaired and asked for users' understanding.

Several Egyptian residents said late on Friday it was impossible to call the United States but calls to Europe appeared to be going through.

"SIGNIFICANT OUTAGE"

The International Cable Protection Committee, an association of submarine cable operators, said it was "aware of multiple submarine cable failures in the Eastern Mediterranean area that may be affecting the speed of Internet communications on some routes."

It said in a statement on its website it did not know what had caused the problem.

Stephan Beckert, an analyst with the U.S.-based telecommunications market research firm TeleGeography, said the three affected cables were the most direct route for moving traffic between Western Europe and the Middle East.
Verizon had rerouted some of its traffic by sending it across the Atlantic, then the United States, across the Pacific, and on to the Middle East.

A New York Stock Exchange spokesman said he was unaware of any disruptions in trading. Exchanges CME Group, and IntercontinentalExchange said they had no disruption in their trading on Friday.

(Additional reporting by Jim Finkle in Boston, Juan Lagorio and Elinor Comlay in New York, Robert Birsel in Islamabad; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

[Luminari]

Something suspicious is going down... wonder if anything major is about to happen in the middle east?

[alyscat]

If not this time, another time when we've become so used to these breaks that we no longer think about them when they happen.
alys

Originally Posted by Luminari

Something suspicious is going down... wonder if anything major is about to happen in the middle east?

[Dantheman62]

I remember the cable breaks awhile ago and they never figured out what happened, or at least I never heard anything more about it!

[Avid]

Totally suspicious - not one but FIVE - all within an hour of each other, who had the pincers and why...?
Iraq and Israel are unaffected.....
http://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/20...ply-a-warning/

there has been no seismic activity there
http://www.circleid.com/posts/200812...s_europe_asia/
This one was an earlier source.

[Avid]

Another link on this:
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/...cle5372294.ece
Surely no coincidence....

[deb003]

I live in south florida and lost my internet connection since last night at around 7pm. at&T said thay my area was having network and server issues. it came back about 2 hours ago.

[Avid]

Originally Posted by deb003

I live in south florida and lost my internet connection since last night at around 7pm. at&T said thay my area was having network and server issues. it came back about 2 hours ago.

Glad you're back
Submarines at work by someone somewhere - but not in Florida yet....

[Northern Boy]

Heres a thought or Question if you will . Are the Israelis getting ready to deliver their Christmas gift to Iran . Could very well be

[Avid]

Originally Posted by Northern Boy

Heres a thought or Question if you will . Are the Israelis getting ready to deliver their Christmas gift to Iran . Could very well be

via the USA to stoke the fires and get Iran blamed... surely not!
They can't do it alone of course - they'd be annihilated.
Keep checking other papers like Pravda etc, not just our MSMedia.

[Myra]

Surely not a coincidence. Just look which Countries are being affected and which ones are not.

[seekntruth]

Interesting developments!

Although the western military forces may indeed be involved in these cable cuts, there is another possible explanation. Something that most people would discount as unimaginable because they are totally unfamiliar with the extraterrestrial intervention that exists on the planet Earth.

December 21, 2008

World Shipping Comes To Halt As Global Navies Prepare For
‘Unprecedented’ Confrontation

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

Of the numerous reports we have been able to access from some of the
World’s most secret intelligence archives the strangest have always been
those from Russia’s Interior Ministry, which though not controlled by
the Soviets anymore is still believed to be at the forefront into the
research of extra and strange science subjects such as UFO’s, psychic
powers, remote viewing, etc.

The first time these deepest secrets of the Soviet Interior Ministry
were revealed to the World was in the 1970’s with the publication of
“Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain” by Canadian and American
researchers Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder, and which according to
the Russian environmental and civil liberties group Ecology and Living
Environment the research of these projects is still continuing today.

But what has caught our attention today, to put it mildly, is a combined
Russian Interior Ministry-FSB report circulating in the Kremlin today
that states that our World’s Navies are about engage in ‘unprecedented’
hostilities with the ‘giant founders’ of the ancient Biblical Garden of
Eden to prevent our Planet from being re-colonized by an alien race most
popularly known as the Annunaki (or "Nephilim") who ancient Babylonian
texts state are the ‘Watchers’ over our Earth.

What makes this report even more disturbing is that as these very words
are being written, Naval Forces from all around the Globe are now
converging upon The Gulf of Aden, the area historically described as is
“the freshwater river that left Eden and split into four heads of
branches, based upon archaic notions of a great river encircling the
world” and which is the exact location given by these ancient Babylonian
texts for the location of the ‘main undersea base’ of these Watchers.

Global Naval Forces currently steaming towards, or already in, The Gulf
of Aden include ‘friends and foes’ alike The United States, Iran, China,
Russia, Germany, European Union and India under what these reports state
is the ‘cover story’ of protecting the shipping lanes of that region
from the US backed pirates operating out of Somalia.

Current news from this region are, also, appearing to show that
hostilities have already begun between our Earth’s ‘Defense Forces’ and
the Watchers as like the United States last attempt to attack these
‘aliens’ by themselves this past January has, once again, resulted in
massive cuts by the Watchers to the many undersea communication cables
laying upon the seafloors of this region which have now isolated large
parts of the Middle East and the sub-continent.

To the worst fears confronting our Earth’s Defense Forces, these reports
continue, is a repeat of the catastrophic events that occurred on
December 26, 2004, when the American nuclear attack submarine USS San
Francisco attempted to launch an attack against an undersea Watcher base
in the Indian Ocean causing these ‘aliens’ to retaliate by raising the
sea floor over 100 meters which the USS San Francisco than slammed into
but which also launched the cataclysmic tsunami which killed over
250,000 and whose earthquake, latterly, changed the orbit of our entire
Planet.

The Earth Defense Forces in an apparent bid to mitigate any further such
retaliations against them have ordered a near halt to shipping on all of
our World’s oceans, and which has been confirmed by the reports issued
on the Baltic Exchange Dry Index [see top photo left] which shows that
Global shipping is now grinding to a near halt as over 93% of all cargo
ships have been recalled to their ports.

It should be noted that as hard as these reports may be to believe by
the average propaganda filled person, the threat to our Planet by these
Watchers has been known by all of the World’s powers for many years, and
with one of the first mass warnings being given to our human race by the
American President Ronald Regan who on September 21, 1987 stated before
the United Nations:

“In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how
much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside,
universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally
think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were
facing an alien threat from outside this world”.

Today is indeed showing us that an ‘outside, universal threat’ is
‘quickly’ making ‘differences vanish’ as both the American and Iranian
Navies are confronting a common Global threat even as they stand on the
brink of war as separate Nation states having no common bonds between
them.

And, to these events occurring at the exact same time as our World’s
economic structure continues imploding leaving billions of human beings
in its tragic wake broke, homeless and starving, one can indeed see that
the final ‘end game’ for the control of our Planet has now begun in
earnest, leaving only the question to be asked…who really are the ‘good
guys’ in all of this?

For the answer to this question it is wise to remember the Sorcha Faal’s
words in her book “Battle Begins For Throne of This World: The Return of
the Einherjar Warriors” wherein she wrote of our need to understand our
Earth’s most ancient myths in order to understand these times we live in
today…

"The great peril of our existence lies in the fact that our diet
consists entirely of souls”, say the Inuit people of the great Arctic
regions of the World.

According to these ancient people’s beliefs, all living things have
souls, just like our human ones, and once we kill a life its spirit is
then free to exact revenge upon us, that is unless we humans perform the
rituals necessary to free them.

The beliefs of the Inuit's come from a world-view that is devoid of
religious belief, in fact, they believe that the universe is ruled by
nothing.

There are no gods or creators, there are no punishments in either this
present world or the hereafter; there is only the belief that is best
summed up by the Inuit’s themselves, and who say: "We don't believe. We
fear."

© December 21, 2008 EU and US all rights reserved.
http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1180.htm
--
Sorcha Faal
sorchafaal@fastmail.fm

[Northern Boy]

Originally Posted by Avid

via the USA to stoke the fires and get Iran blamed... surely not!
They can't do it alone of course - they'd be annihilated.
Keep checking other papers like Pravda etc, not just our MSMedia.

i never watch the msmedia go to the real news .com and al jeezera first