Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

Mon Feb 4 00:43:20 UTC 2008

Sean, do you have any URLs with additional info on the new cut?  Questions
are being asked.

Marc

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From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of Sean
Donelan
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 6:52 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

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.