Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

Mon Feb 4 01:22:20 UTC 2008

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i03tUdyj8wf2Xa9P4trWEjqAJdyQ
DOHA (AFP) . An undersea telecoms cable linking Qatar to the United Arab 
Emirates was damaged, disrupting services, telecommunications provider 
Qtel said on Sunday, the latest such incident in less than a week.

The cable was damaged between the Qatari island of Haloul and the UAE 
island of Das on Friday, Qtel's head of communications Adel al Mutawa told 
AFP.

On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Marcus H. Sachs wrote:

> Sean, do you have any URLs with additional info on the new cut?  Questions
> are being asked.
>
> Marc
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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)
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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.
>
>