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"Parts of the Gulf Arab region were plunged into a virtual internet blackout on Wednesday when two undersea cables were cut near Alexandria, on Egypt’s north coast."

The whole "dog at my homework" tactic seemed to come into play last week after 2 major cables were cut in the Mediterranean Sea that led to internet loss across the Middle East, particularly throughout Dubai. At first I assumed it was our ghetto office router that always seems to run slowly, but it soon came to my attention that my clients and friends were having trouble getting things through via the www. Apparently there are now THREE cables down and people are starting to develop all sorts of conspiracy theories considering that Israel and Iraq seem to be doing fine but Iran is completely without internet access:

"The only 2 countries that were unaffected were Israel and Iraq, the only two close Anglo-American allies in the region, both remaining completely unaffected by the cable cuts, leading to theories for the causes of the cuts, which have so far been given as having been caused by ships dragging their anchors across the cables. The fact that two rare incidents have happened in the same week, and both with cables owned by the same company, on either sides of Israel and the importance of the Internet to telecommunications and business, lends suspicion to the events"

If "network warfare" becomes an actual medium of attack between sovereign states, political theory is going to take a whole new shape! We'll need to get George Lucas to start developing some foreign policy tactics.