[General] Internet Slowdown

[Majed B.]

Bashar, your analogy is almost correct. The correct one would be: A person
was hit by a bus, TWICE, yet there was no bus!!!

;)

On Feb 5, 2008 8:51 AM, bashar abdullah <bashar.abdullah at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not a quick adapter of conspiracy theories, but the way this is going
> is like saying a person was hit by a bus (TWICE!)
>
>
>
> On Feb 4, 2008 3:36 PM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Many posts on Slashdot already mentioned the possibility that this was
> > intentional, especially when the 3rd cable was 56km away from the first 2!
> >
> > Read the comments in this story:
> > http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/01/0323210
> > One of the comments even shows a relation between 2 news articles, one
> > of them about UK wanting to spy on such cables/communication.
> >
> >
> > > Ships did not cut internet cables: Egypt
> > >
> > > Posted Mon Feb 4, 2008 10:05am AEDT
> > >
> > > Ships are not responsible for damaging undersea internet cables in the
> > > Mediterranean, Egypt's Government says.
> > >
> > > Two cables were damaged earlier this week in the Mediterranean sea and
> > > another off the coast of Dubai, causing widespread disruption to internet
> > > and international telephone services in Egypt, Gulf Arab states and South
> > > Asia.
> > >
> > > A fourth cable linking Qatar to the United Arab Emirates was damaged
> > > on Sunday causing yet more disruptions, telecommunication provider Qtel
> > > said.
> > >
> > > Egypt's transport ministry said footage recorded by onshore video
> > > cameras of the location of the cables showed no maritime traffic in the area
> > > when the cables were damaged.
> > >
> > > "The ministry's maritime transport committee reviewed footage covering
> > > the period of 12 hours before and 12 hours after the cables were cut and no
> > > ships sailed the area," a statement said.
> > >
> > > "The area is also marked on maps as a no-go zone and it is therefore
> > > ruled out that the damage to the cables was caused by ships."
> > >
> > > Earlier reports said that the damage had been caused by ships that had
> > > been diverted off their usual route because of bad weather.
> > >
> > > A repair ship is expected to begin work to fix the two Mediterranean
> > > cables on Tuesday.
> > >
> > > - *AFP*
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Feb 4, 2008 3:29 PM, Mahmoud Mohammad <mmahmoh at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > ABC News ===>> Ships did not cut internet cables:
> > >
> > > http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/04/2153455.htm
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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