Re: ITU: Submarine Cable Cuts Acts of Sabatoge?

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

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 7:44 AM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:

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""Some experts doubt the prevailing view that the cables were cut by
accident, especially as the cables lie at great depths under the sea and are
not passed over by ships," Murshed said on the sidelines of a conference on
cyber-crime held in Gulf state of Qatar."

Nonsense. The Straits of Hormuz are not "great depths of the sea", and they
are constantly full of shipping. The same goes for the eastern
Mediterranean. Murshed seems ill-informed.

Further, looking at "National Terror Alert.com", I have my doubts; it seems
to be a private enterprise with links to lots of really, really,
extreme-right wing blogs that's trying to look like an official US
Government product. Also, it's an old journo trick to headline a story about
- say - aircraft accident investigators not ruling something unlikely out
(they never rule anything out until there is good reason to) as if they were
suggesting it was the truth.

Alex