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02/03/2008: "Internet blackout after 4 mideast ocean cables cut"

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.

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."

[ Two is an odd coincidence, but four? Something's afoot. ]

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