Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

Mon Feb 4 00:33:21 UTC 2008

Dear Sean;

Do you know how Syria, Jordan and Lebanon get their connectivity ?  
They have dropped off the map today for us. (Or maybe yesterday - I  
wasn't able to pay any attention to this yesterday.)

Our Egyptian audience remains very low, while Iran still seems to be  
unaffected.

Regards
Marshall

On Feb 3, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:

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> 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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>