(Via Jawa Report) Okay, so what the hell is exactly going on over there? After the fourth cable, you can’t tell me that this is just a coincidence. Are the boat captains that wasted or are we seeing some form of covert warfare? By whom?

Michelle Malkin links to this from ABC:

…Undersea cable damage is hardly rare–indeed, more than 50 repair operations were mounted in the Atlantic alone last year, according to marine cable repair company Global Marine Systems. But last week’s breaks came at one of the world’s bottlenecks, where Net traffic for whole regions is funneled along a single route.

But repairs aren’t the same as total line disruptions, are they?

Or is it just something nonthreatening, but less obvious?

Update 8:35PM CST: This article at engadget seems to be at odds with the regularity of cut cables implied in the ABC article.

 … and while no official reports of subversion have surfaced just yet, things are beginning to get suspicious. Flag Telecom, a subsidiary of Indian conglomerate Reliance ADA Group, has had two cables damaged in the span of a week — a quandary it has never dealt with until now.

Time will tell.

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