| I'm trying to convince their NOC something is not rite.
Are you sure it's "not rite" by accident, rather than by design?
[traceroute showing singapore->teleglobe-in-LA->Alternet-in-LA->
Alternet-in-DC->Teleglobe-in-Montreal]
"AS Healing" via another network has been done the past,
this looks an awful lot like an example of that.
Sean.