Who is the enemy?

Undersea cable attacks in 2008

Well, there goes the “fifth one”:http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2008/February/theuae_February155.xml&section=theuae. Over the past week four “submarine communications cables”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undersea_cables have been cut and one damaged leaving more than a billion people throughout the Middle East and Asia Internet-blind.

* SeaMeWe-4 near Penang
* FLAG near Alexandria
* FLAG near the Dubai coast
* FALCON near Bandar Abbas
* SeaMeWe-4 near Alexandria

Nobody seems to know what the hell is going on yet. As Goldfinger famously said: “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.”

“Follow along with Schneier”:http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/02/fourth_undersea.html.

About Younghusband

Sir Francis Edward Younghusband (1863-1942) was a British explorer, army officer, military-political officer, and foreign correspondent born in India who led expeditions into Manchuria, Kashgar, and Tibet. He three times tried and failed to scale Mt. Everest and journeyed from China to India, crossing the Gobi desert and the Mustagh Pass (alt. c.19,000 ft/5,791 m) of the Karakoram mountain range in modern day Pakistan. Convinced of Russian designs on British interests in India, Younghusband proactively engaged in the nineteenth century spying and conflict over Central Asia between the British and the Russians known as the Great Game. "Younghusband" is a Canadian who has spent a number of years bouncing back and forth between his home country and Japan. Fluent in Japanese and English with experience in numerous other languages from Spanish to Georgian, Younghusband has travelled throughout Asia. He graduated with an MA from the War Studies Department at the Royal Military College of Canada, where he focussed on the Japanese oil industry and energy security issues. He has recently returned to Canada from Japan, and is working in the technology sector.
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3 Responses to Who is the enemy?

  1. Curzon says:

    That might explain why my buddies I’m emailing in Dubai aren’t responding…

  2. Aceface says:

    See,things like that happen when you stop whaling….