[svlug] Internet Cables Cut -- Two Articles

[Mark S Bilk]

Since we rely so much on the Internet, it's important that 
we realize that the U.S. government regards the Net as 
an enemy, and has begun to attack it (the second article
contains the evidence for this).  Their motivation is that 
the enormously enhanced free flow of information enabled 
by the Net is threatening the power of the corrupt,
sociopathic, murderous ultra-wealthy elite that controls 
our government, economy, and media.
 ---
Is The Game Up?
   Thomas -- sott.net
Many of us have felt that there is something wrong in the world.
Something ugly, mean but just out of sight.
A growing number know what is going on now.
It's like a light coming on in a cellar full of rats.
But it is a big cellar with the rats in charge.
Stay tuned.
 ---
Lots of info on that here.  They estimate the fraction of 
sociopaths in the population at about 6%.  
http://ponerology.blogspot.com/
http://www.sott.net/
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1) Internet Cables Cut -- Prelude to War or Simply A Warning?
2) Connecting The Many Undersea Cut Cable Dots - 9 Or More?

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Internet Cables Cut -- Prelude to War or Simply A Warning?
February 5, 2008

A single undersea fiber-optic cable carrying internet traffic
accidentally being cut once in a year's time is believable. 5
of them however within the span of only a few days resulting in
most of the Middle East being left in the informational dark
ages cannot be mere happenstance. The odds are too extreme to
even contemplate it being anything but a deliberate act of
sabotage, and particularly when Israel and US-occupied Iraq
happen to be unaffected by it.

As of the moment of this writing, 5 internet cables -- buried
deep beneath the ocean floor to prevent them being accidentally
dredged up by a ships' anchor -- have been cut, preventing
most of the Middle East from internet access. The cables
provide 90% of the region's internet service and the
countries affected most by this are Egypt, Bahrain, Qatar,
United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and
Iran. They have since re-routed to older, slower lines and
satellites, but overall internet service is slow and in
some cases -- particularly Iran, there is no internet service
whatsoever.

The lines -- originating in southern Europe and then snaking
their way southward to north Africa and then eastward through
the Suez Canal and then on to India are the communication,
commerce and technology lifelines for these nations. In a world
where everything is dependent upon the internet, from government
operations to financial markets the devastating effect this
disruption could have on these nations is easy to see.

In all the media coverage of this event, it was hinted that
possibly an anchor from a ship was the guilty culprit. However,
shortly thereafter Egypt released a statement to the effect that
video footage of the area where the cuts took place showed no
surface ship activity for the previous 12 hours and added that
these particular lanes are closed to maritime traffic for the
express reason of avoiding damage to the cables. Interestingly,
none of the stories covering this event mentioned (or even
hinted, for that matter) the words `foul play', and
this in an age where everything from global warming to bad
breath is blamed on Osama Bin Laden and his merry band of
Islamic militants.

Besides the everyday issues of news and information services,
telephone communications have been severely disrupted and
financial markets have suffered as much as a 70% loss in trading
activity. It is estimated that the earliest the problem will
be fixed is the beginning of the 2nd week in February, as it
takes several days for repair ships to reach the areas where
the cuts took place.

As noted earlier, almost as if by some magical coincidence
Israel and US-occupied Iraq have not been affected while these
other nations are scrambling to get the lights turned back on,
something adding even more reason for raised eyebrows amongst
skeptical people.

And those suspecting foul play have good reason for doing
so. Besides the fact that 5 undersea cables are cut within
the span of only a few days, there are strategic reasons for
`interested parties' to want to see such an event take
place. The countries most affected are all major players in
the current goings-on in the Middle East where the US and the
Jewish state are up to their eyeballs in skullduggery. The
gulf countries were recently visited by George Bush who
tried -- unsuccessfully -- to rally them around support for
renewed pressure on a recalcitrant Iran, only to be laughed
out of the region.

In addition, when asked recently by the US to increase oil
output in order to lighten the effects of a downward-spiraling
economy, the OPEC nations (some of whom were affected by the
cable cut) refused. The Gulf countries in particular are heavily
involved with Iran in banking issues at a time when Israel
and America are trying through sanctions and other pressures
to isolate and economically strangulate the Islamic republic
by preventing other nations from doing business with her. The
Gulf countries are getting nervous about a steadily-declining
dollar to which their own economies are directly linked and
are now openly talking about following other nations that have
linked their own currencies to something less troublesome such
as the Euro. Pakistan -- the only nuclear-armed Muslim country,
recently gave a resounding `Hell-no' to the prospect of
US troops operating on its soil.

In short, the deliberate cutting of the internet cables can
easily be seen as a shot across the bow by the US/Israeli hydra,
a form of low-intensity/covert warfare aimed at destabilizing
them and making things uncomfortable, as well as reminding them
that if they don't play ball according to the dictates of
the New World Order that `accidents' can happen.

There are other possibilities as well. Since it is an
established fact that the Jewish state plans on eventually
absorbing as much of the oil-rich land in that region as
possible for herself in the interests of fulfilling the biblical
idea of `Greater Israel', the cutting of the cables
could very well have been a dry-run operation in monitoring
the affected nations and seeing where their weaknesses lie
in the event of war. Communications are as vital to a nation
fighting a war as is the eyesight of a prizefighter in the
boxing ring, and if sand is thrown in his eyes he can easily
be defeated by someone half his size and weight. Likewise with
tiny Israel, the `David Vs Goliath' who would gain an
enormous advantage in disabling the communications abilities
of nations she plans to destroy in the same way she destroyed
the communications equipment aboard the USS Liberty when she
began her murderous attack in 1967.

Whatever the case, the fact is -- just as President FDR once
noted -- that `nothing in politics happens by accident'
and `whatever takes place does so because someone planned it
that way', and with the case of the mysterious cutting of
5 internet cables within the span of only a few days, someone
benefited from it all, and, as usual, surprise surprise,
it just so happens to be Israel.

2008 By Mark Glenn, Correspondent -- American Free Press Newspaper
www.americanfreepress.net
nomorewarsforisrael at gmail.com

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Connecting The Many Undersea Cut Cable Dots - 9 Or More?
By Richard Sauder, PhD
2-5-8

The last week has seen a spate of unexplained, cut, undersea
communications cables that has severely disrupted communications
in many countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South
Asia. As I shall show, the total numbers of cut cables remain
in question, but likely number as many as eight, and maybe
nine or more.

The trouble began on 30 January 2008 with CNN reports that
two cables were cut off the Egyptian Mediterranean coast,
initially severely disrupting Internet and telephone traffic
from Egypt to India and many points in between. According to
CNN the two cut cables "account for as much as three-quarters
of the international communications between Europe and the
Middle East." CNN reported that the two cut cables off the
Egyptian coast were "FLAG Telecom's FLAG Europe-Asia cable and
SeaMeWe-4, a cable owned by a consortium of more than a dozen
telecommunications companies".(10) Other reports placed one
of the cut cables, SeaMeWe-4, off the coast of France, near
Marseille.(9)(12) However, many news organizations reported
two cables cut off the Egyptian coast, including the SeaMeWe-4
cable connecting Europe with the Middle East. 

The possibilities are thus three, based on the reporting in
the news media: 1) the SeaMeWe-4 cable was cut off the coast of
France, and mistakenly reported as being cut off the coast of
Egypt, because it runs from France to Egypt; 2) the SeaMeWe-4
cable was cut off the Egyptian coast and mistakenly reported
as being cut off the coast of France, because it runs from
France to Egypt; or 3) the SeaMeWe-4 cable was cut both off
the Egyptian and the French coasts, nearly simultaneously,
leading to confusion in the reporting. I am not sure what
to think, because most reports, such as this one from the
International Herald Tribune, refer to two cut cables off the
Egyptian coast, one of the two being the SeaMeWe4 cable,(11)
while other reports also refer to a cut cable off the coast
of France.(9)(12) It thus appears that the same cable may
have suffered two cuts, both off the French and the Egyptian
coasts. So there were likely actually three undersea cables
cut in the Mediterranean on 30 January 2008.

In the case of the cables cut off the Egyptian coast, the
news media initially advanced the explanation that the cables
had been cut by ships' anchors.(10)(13) But on 3 February the
Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
said that a review of video footage of the coastal waters where
the two cables passed revealed that the area had been devoid
of ship traffic for the 12 hours preceding and the 12 hours
following the time of the cable cuts.(5)(11) So the cable cuts
cannot have been caused by ship anchors, in view of the fact
that there were no ships there.

The cable cutting was just getting started. Two days later
an undersea cable was reported cut in the Persian Gulf, 55
kilometers off of Dubai.(11) The cable off of Dubai was reported
by CNN to be a FLAG Falcon cable.(10) And then on 3 February
came reports of yet another damaged undersea cable, this time
between Qatar and the UAE (United Arab Emirates).(6)(7)(11)

The confusion was compounded by another report on 1 February
2008 of a cut undersea cable running through the Suez to Sri
Lanka.(19) If the report is accurate this would represent a
sixth cut cable. The same article mentions the cut cable off
of Dubai in the Persian Gulf, but seeing as the Suez is on the
other side of the Arabian peninsula from the Persian Gulf,
the article logically appears to be describing two separate
cable cutting incidents.

These reports were followed on 4 February 2008 with a report
of even more cut undersea cables. The Khaleej Times reported a
total of five damaged undersea cables: two off of Egypt and the
cable near Dubai, all of which have already been mentioned in
this report. But then the Khaleej Times mentions two that have
not been mentioned elsewhere, to my knowledge: 1) a cable in
the Persian Gulf near Bandar Abbas, Iran, and 2) the SeaMeWe4
undersea cable near Penang, Malaysia.(3) The one near Penang,
Malaysia appears to represent a new incident. The one near
Bandar Abbas is reported separately from the one off Dubai and
is evidently not the same incident, since the report says ,
"FLAG near the Dubai coast" and "FALCON near Bandar Abbas in
Iran" were both cut. Bandar Abbas is on the other side of the
Persian Gulf from Qatar and the UAE, and so presumably the
cut cable near Bandar Abbas is not the one in that incident
either. Interestingly, the report also states that, "The
first cut in the undersea Internet cable occurred on January
23, in the Flag Telcoms FALCON submarine cable which was not
reported.(3) This news article deals primarily with the outage
in the UAE, so it raises the question as to whether this is
a reference to yet a ninth cut cable that has not hit the
mainstream news cycle in the United States.

By my count, we are probably dealing with as many as eight,
maybe even nine, unexplained cut or damaged undersea cables
within the last week, and not the mere three or four that
most mainstream news media outlets in the United States are
presently reporting. Given all this cable-cutting mayhem in
the last several days, who knows but what there may possibly be
other cut and/or damaged cables that have not made it into the
news cycle, because they are lost in the general cable-cutting
noise by this point. Nevertheless, let me enumerate what I can,
and keep in mind, I am not pulling these out of a hat; all of
the sources are referenced at the conclusion of the article;
you can click through and look at all the evidence that I
have. It's there if you care to read through it all.

one off of Marseille, France   
two off of Alexandria, Egypt   
one off of Dubai, in the Persian Gulf   
one off of Bandar Abbas, Iran in the Persian Gulf   
one between Qatar and the UAE, in the Persian Gulf   
one in the Suez, Egypt   
one near Penang, Malaysia   
initially unreported cable cut on 23 January 2008 (Persian Gulf?)   

Three things stand out about these incidents:   

all of them, save one, have occurred in waters near
predominantly Muslim nations, causing disruption in those
countries;

all but two of the cut/damaged cables are in Middle Eastern
waters;

so many like incidents in such a short period of time suggests
that they are not accidents, but are in fact deliberate acts,
i.e., sabotage.

The evidence therefore suggests that we are looking at a
coordinated program of undersea cable sabotage by an actor,
or actors, on the international stage with an anti-Muslim bias,
as well as a proclivity for destructive violence in the Middle
Eastern region.

The question then becomes: are there any actors on the
international stage who exhibit a strong, anti-Muslim bias in
their foreign relations, who have the technical capability to
carry out clandestine sabotage operations on the sea floor,
and who have exhibited a pattern of violently destructive
policies towards Muslim peoples and nations, especially in
the Middle East region?

The answer is yes, there are two: Israel and the United States
of America.

In recent years, Israel has bombed and invaded Lebanon, bombed
Syria, and placed the Palestinian Territories under a pitiless
and ruthless blockade/occupation/quarantine/assault. During the
same time frame the United States of America has militarily
invaded and occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, and American
forces remain in both countries at present, continuing to
carry out aggressive military operations. Simultaneous with
these Israeli and American war crimes against countries in
the region, both Israel and the United States have made many
thinly veiled threats of war against Iran, and the United States
openly seeks to increase its military presence in Pakistan's
so-called "tribal areas".(15) Israel and the United States
both have a technically sophisticated military operations
capability. Moreover, the United States Navy has a documented
history of carrying out espionage activities on the sea floor.
The U.S. Navy has long had special operations teams that can go
out on submarines and deploy undersea, on the seabed itself,
specifically for this sort of operation. This has all been
thoroughly documented in the excellent book, Blind Man's Bluff:
The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, by Sherry
Sontag and Christopher Drew (New York: Public Affairs, 1998).
The classic example is Operation Ivy Bells, which took place
during the Cold War, in the waters off the Soviet Union. In
a joint, U.S. Navy-NSA operation, U.S. Navy divers repeatedly
tapped an underwater cable in the Kuril Islands, by swimming
out undersea, to and from U.S.  Navy submarines.(14)

This sort of activity is like something straight out of a spy
novel thriller, but the U.S. Navy really does have special
submarines and deep diving, special operations personnel who
specialize in precisely this sort of operation. So cutting
undersea cables is well within the operational capabilities
of the United States Navy.

Couple this little known, but very important fact, with
the reality that for years now we have seen more and more
ham-handed interference with the global communications grid by
the American alphabet soup agencies (NSA, CIA, FBI, HoSec) and
major telecommunication companies. Would the telecommunication
companies and the American military and alphabet soup agencies
collude on an operation that had as its aim to sabotage the
communications network across a wide region of the planet? Would
they perhaps collude with Israeli military and intelligence
agencies to do this? The honest answer has to be: sure, maybe
so. The hard reality is that we are now living in a world of
irrational and violent policies enacted against the civilian
population by multinational corporations, and military and
espionage agencies the world over.  We see the evidence for
this on every hand. Only the most myopic among us remain
oblivious to that reality.

In light of the American Navy's demonstrated sea-floor
capabilities and espionage activities, the heavy American
Navy presence in the region, the many, thinly veiled threats
against Iran by both the Americans and the Israelis, and their
repeated, illegal, military aggression against other nations in
the region, suspicion quite naturally falls on both Israel and
the United States of America. It may be that this is what the
beginning of a war against Iran looks like, or perhaps it is
part of a more general, larger assault against Muslim and/or
Arab interests across a very wide region. Whatever the case,
this is no small operation, seeing as the cables that have been
cut are among the largest communication pipes in the region,
and clearly represent major strategic targets.

Very clearly, we are not looking at business as usual. On
the contrary, it is obvious that we are looking at distinctly
unusual business.

The explanations being put forth in the mainstream news media
for these many cut, undersea communications cables absolutely
do not pass the smell test. And by the way, the same operators
who cut undersea cables in the Persian Gulf, Mediterranean Sea,
Malaysia and possibly the Suez as well, presumably can also
cut underwater cables in the Gulf of Mexico, the Great Lakes,
the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound. This could be a multipurpose
operation, in part a test run for isolating a country or region
from the international communications grid. The Middle East
today, the USA tomorrow?

What's that you say? I don't understand how the world
works? That kind of thing can't happen here?

In any event, if the cables have been intentionally cut, then
that is an aggressive act of war. I'm sure everyone in the
region has gotten that message. I'm looking at the same telegram
as they are, and I know that it's clear as a "bell" to me.(14)

It is little known by the American people, but nevertheless
true, that Iran intends to open its own Oil Bourse this month
(February 2008) that will trade in "non-dollar currencies".(16)
This has massive geo-political-economic implications for the
United States and the American economy, since the American
dollar is at present still (if not for much longer) the
dominant reserve currency internationally, particularly for
petroleum transactions. However, due to the mind-boggling
scale of the structural weaknesses in the American economy,
which have been well discussed in the financial press in
recent weeks and months, the American dollar is increasingly
shunned by corporate, banking and governmental actors the
world over. No one wants to be stuck with vaults full of
rapidly depreciating dollars as the American economy hurtles
towards the basement. And so an operational Iranian Oil Bourse,
actively trading supertankers full of petroleum in non-dollar
currencies, poses a great threat to the American dollar's
continued dominance as the international reserve currency.

The American fear and unease of this development can
only be increased by the knowledge that, "Oil-rich Gulf
Cooperation Council (GCC) member states Bahrain, Kuwait,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have set 2010 as the target
date for adopting a monetary union and single currency."(2)
The American government's fear must have ratcheted up another
notch when Kuwait "dropped its dollar peg" in May "and adopted
a basket of currencies", arousing "speculation that the UAE
and Qatar would follow suit or revalue their currencies."(2)
Although all the GCC members, with the exception of Kuwait,
agreed at their annual meeting in December 2007 to continue to
peg their currencies to the American dollar,(2) the hand writing
is surely on the wall. As the dollar plummets, their American
currency holdings will be worth less and less.  At some point,
they will likely decide to cut their losses and decouple the
value of their currencies from that of the dollar. That point
may be in 2010, when they establish the new GCC currency,
maybe even sooner than that. If Iran succeeds in opening its
own Oil Bourse it is hard to imagine that the GCC would not
trade on the Iranian Oil Bourse, given the extremely close
geographic proximity. And it is hard to believe that they
would not trade their own oil in their own currency. Otherwise,
why have a currency of their own? Clearly they intend to use
it. And just as clearly, the three cut or damaged undersea
communications cables in the Persian Gulf over the last week
deliver a clear message. The United States may be a senescent
dinosaur, and it is, but it is also a violent, heavily armed,
very angry senescent dinosaur. In the end, it will do what all
aged dinosaurs do: perish. But not before it first does a great
deal of wild roaring and violent lashing and thrashing about.

There can be no doubt that Iran, and the other Gulf States,
were intended recipients of this rather pointed cable
cutting telegram, for all of the reasons mentioned here; and
additionally, in the case of Iran, probably also as a warning
for its perceived insults of Israel and dogged pursuit of its
nuclear program in contravention of NeoCon-Zionist dogma that
Iran may not have a nuclear program, though other nations in
the region, Pakistan and Israel, do.

I must mention that one of my e-mail correspondents has
pointed out that another possibility is that once the cables
are cut, special operations divers could hypothetically come
in and attach surveillance devices to the cables without
being detected, because the cables are inoperable until they
are repaired and start functioning again. In this way, other
interests who wanted to spy on Middle Eastern communications,
let's say on banking and trading data going to and from the
Iranian Oil Bourse, or other nations in the Middle East,
could tap into the communications network under cover of
an unexplained cable "break". Who knows? -- this idea may
have merit.

It is noteworthy that two of the cables that were cut lie
off the Egyptian Mediterranean coast, and another passes
through the Suez. During the height of the disruption, some
70 percent of the Egyptian Internet was down. (13) This is a
heavy blow in a day when everything from airlines, to banks,
to universities, to newspapers, to hospitals, to telephone
and shipping companies, and much more, uses the Internet. So
Egypt was hit very hard. An astute observer who carefully
reads the international press could not fail to notice that
in recent days there has been a report in the Egyptian press
that "Egypt rejected an Israeli-American proposal to resettle
800,000 Palestinians in Sinai." This has evidently greatly
upset the Zionist-NeoCon power block holding sway in Tel Aviv
and Washington, DC with the result that Israel has reportedly
threatened to have American aid to Egypt reduced if Egypt
does not consent to the resettlement of the Palestinians in
Egyptian territory.(17) This NeoCon-Zionist tantrum comes hard
on the heels of the Israeli desire to cut ties with Gaza, as
a consequence of the massive breach of the Gaza-Egypt border
by hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in January 2008. (18)

What are NeoCon-Zionist tyrants to do when their diplomatic
hissy fits and anti-Arab tirades no longer carry the day
in Cairo? Or in Qatar and the UAE? Maybe they get out the
underwater cable cutters and deploy some special operations
submarines and divers in the waters off of Alexandria and in
the Suez and in the Persian Gulf.

This would be completely in line with articulated American
military doctrine, which frankly views the Internet as something
to be fought. American Freedom Of Information researchers at
George Washington University obtained a Department of Defense
(Pentagon) document in 2006, entitled "Information Operation
Roadmap", which says forthrightly and explicitly that "the
Department must be prepared to 'fight the net'".(20) This
is a direct quote. It goes on to say that, "We Must Improve
Network and Electro-Magnetic Attack Capability. To prevail in
an information-centric fight, it is increasingly important that
our forces dominate the electromagnetic spectrum with attack
capabilities." (20) It also makes reference to the importance of
employing a "robust offensive suite of capabilities to include
full-range electronic and computer network attack."(8)(20)

So now we can add to our list of data points the professed
intent of the American military to "fight the net", using a
"robust offensive suite of capabilities" in a " full-range
electronic and computer network attack."

Maybe this sudden spate of cut communications cables is what it
looks like when the American military uses a "robust offensive
suite of capabilities" and mounts an "electronic and computer
network attack" in order to "fight the net" in one region of
the world. They have the means, and the opportunity, I've amply
demonstrated that in this article. And now we also have the
motive, in their own words, from their own policy statement. The
plain translation is that the American military now regards the
Internet, that means the hardware such as computers, cables,
modems, servers and routers, and presumably also the content
it contains, and the people who communicate that content,
as an adversary, as something to be fought.

Oh yes, just a couple of more dots to connect before you fall
asleep tonight:

1) The USS San Jacinto, an anti-missile AEGIS cruiser, was
scheduled to dock in Haifa, Israel on 1 February 2008. The
Jerusalem Post reported that this ship's anti-missile system
"could be deployed in the region in the event of an Iranian
missile attack against Israel."(1) Are we to expect another
"false flag" attack, like the inside job on 9-11 perhaps? --
an attack that will be made to appear that it comes from Iran,
and that is then used as a pretext to strike Iran, maybe with
nuclear weapons? And when Iran retaliates with its own missiles,
then the Americans and Israelis will unleash further hell on
Iran? Is that the Zionist-NeoCon plan, or something generally
along those lines?

2) I have to wonder because just this past Saturday, there
was a report in the news that, "Retired senior officers told
Israelis ... to prepare 'rocket rooms' as protection against a
rain of missiles expected to be fired at the Jewish State in any
future conflict." Retired General Udi Shani reportedly said,
"The next war will see a massive use of ballistic weapons
against the whole of Israeli territory."(4)

Now that we know the Israeli military establishment's thinking,
and now that we have a view into the American military mindset,
we ought to be looking at international events across the board
with a very critical, analytical eye, especially as they relate
to possible events that either are playing out right now, or
may potentially play out in the relatively near future, say
in the time frame of the next one month to five years. These
people are violent and devious; they have forewarned us,
and we should take them at their word, given their murderous
record on the international stage.

Contact the author at:
dr_samizdat at yahoo.com

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