Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

Sean Donelan sean at donelan.com
Sun Feb 3 23:52:06 UTC 2008



A fourth submarine cable in the middle east was damaged Sunday
between Haloul, Qatar and Das, United Arab Emirates.

This is in addition to the damage affecting FLAG, SAE-ME-WE4, FALCON
cables.

Afer reviewing surveillance video of the area, Egypt's ministry of 
maritime transportation is reporting no ships were near the FLAG or
SAE-ME-WE4 cables 12-hours before or after the cable damage near 
Alexanderia, Egypt.  The reason for outage of the cables has
not been identified yet.





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