Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

Tue Feb 5 21:08:04 UTC 2008

For Lebanon:

Here is the MPT's web site on submarine cables:

http://www.mpt.gov.lb/berytar.htm

It has links to aletar and cadmos as well.

Chip Sharp

Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> 
> 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:
> 
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> 