Sabotage not yet ruled out cuts in submarine cable

Sabotage has not been ruled out as the cause of the five submarine cables cut in the Middle East

Almost a month has passed but there is still very little information about what caused the rupture of five submarine cables and the entire Middle East.

Sami al-Murshed, chairman of the International Telecommunication Union said, “We do not want to prejudge the outcome of ongoing investigations, but did not rule out a deliberate act of sabotage caused the damage to the undersea cables more than two weeks ago” .

DailyTech FLAG Telecom reported that he discovered that his FALCON cable was cut by an anchor abandoned ships, February 8. The question for many was exactly how the anchor ended in the area of the FALCON cable since early reports said that the ships were not in the vicinity of where the cables broke.

Adding fuel to the fire of the conspiracy theory is the fact that no images of ships anchoring shows. The images have been if the anchor was an old specimen Barnacle covered abandoned long ago or whether this is a brilliant new court anchor of a ship recently. The odds of five cables are not in that period of a few weeks are simply astronomical.

Information Week quotes Stephan Beckert, director of research at TeleGeography research as saying, “There is this big game of telephone going on between bloggers and journalists. Anything is possible. But it does no good to speculate.”

Beckert also said it believes the fishing nets and anchors ships are the possible causes and when asked about sabotage, he said, “[Sabotage] is extremely rare. I am not aware of any [incident], but that does not mean that it has not been done. “

DailyTech reported on the first couple of submarine cables in court on 31 January, the report of the third cable cut occurred in the February 4, the fourth cut cable was announced on February 5 with the final report of a cutting cable in the next 6 February. Later it was revealed two of the five cable failures are due to faulty power supplies, not physically cut the cables.