Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

["Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell () gmail com>]

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Hank Nussbacher <hank () efes iucc ac il>
wrote:

> I think more interesting is the landing stations where numerous cables
> intersect.  They may be diverse in the water, but they cluster around each
> other when they hit the landing stations.


Exactly; which have historically been in the same strategic locations. Suez,
Singapore, Cape Town; it's the strategic map of the British Empire. "Five
strategic keys lock up the world", as Lord Fisher said. (Dover, Gibraltar,
Singapore, Cape Town, and Suez).

The similarity is truly uncanny.