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Three Internet Cables Slashed
in a Week: Has Iran lost all Internet Connectivity?
Mike Whitney
Global
Research
Monday February 4, 2008
CNN reports that: “An undersea cable carrying Internet
traffic was cut off the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai, officials
said Friday, THE THIRD LOSS of a line carrying Internet and telephone
traffic in three days.
The first two cables “account for as much as three-quarters
of the international communications between Europe and the Middle
East”, so it is expected that the loss of the third cable
will plunge large parts of the Middle East into darkness.
According to Mathaba Net, the latest incident took place “two
days after the cable cut which "cut off Iran" and affected
the rest of the Middle East and West Asia. Internet Traffic Report
web site reports that Iran has lost all Internet connectivity.
(http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm)
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Israel and Iraq's Internet connections are still “intact”.
(Mathaba.net http://mathaba.net/news/?x=580589)
“Omar Sultan, chief executive of Dubai's Internet Service
Provider "DU", said that the incident was "very
unusual” and that the cause of the incident "had not
yet been identified."
From Mathaba News:
“The only 2 countries that were unaffected were Israel
and Iraq, the only two close Anglo-American allies in the region,
both remaining completely unaffected by the cable cuts, leading
to theories for the causes of the cuts, which have so far been
given as having been caused by ships dragging their anchors across
the cables. The fact that two rare incidents have happened in
the same week, and both with cables owned by the same company,
on either sides of Israel and the importance of the Internet to
telecommunications and business, lends suspicion to the events.”
(Mathaba.net http://mathaba.net/news/?x=580589)
Coincidence or Network Warfare?
Recently, a document entitled Information Operation Roadmap was
declassified by the Pentagon because of a Freedom of Information
Act request by the National Security Archive at George Washington
University.
The importance of information warfare is clearly laid out in
this document. Here is an extended excerpt from an article by
Brent Jessop, “Full Spectrum Information Warfare”
published by Global Research:
“Information, always important in warfare, is now critical
to military success and will only become more so in the foreseeable
future..... Information operations should be centralized under
the Office of the Secretary of Defence and made a core military
competency.
"Objective: IO [information operations] becomes a core
competency. The importance of dominating the information spectrum
explains the objective of transforming IO into a core military
competency on a par with air, ground, maritime and special operations.
The charge to the IO Roadmap oversight panel was to develop
as concrete a set of action recommendations as possible to make
IO a core competency, which in turn required identifying the
essential prerequisites to become a core military competency."
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