{"id":5666,"date":"2008-02-06T22:22:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T06:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5666"},"modified":"2008-02-07T09:55:12","modified_gmt":"2008-02-07T17:55:12","slug":"fifth-undersea-internet-cable-to-middle-east-now-reportedly-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5666","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Middle East Undersea Internet Cable Reportedly Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We momentarily interrupt our Election Meltdown &#8217;08 coverage to quickly point out that a total of five large undersea Internet cables, leading to various areas of the Middle East, have now reportedly been &#8220;cut.&#8221; The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khaleejtimes.com\/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data\/theuae\/2008\/February\/theuae_February155.xml&#038;section=theuae\"><em>Khaleej Times<\/em> reports<\/a> that &#8220;An estimated 1.7 million Internet users in the UAE have been affected by the recent undersea cable damage,&#8221; which, folks who worry about such things note, is in addition to millions of users in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>We noticed the story when three cables were cut last week, but didn&#8217;t have time to look into it. We still don&#8217;t. Nor do we pretend to know what it all means.<\/p>\n<p>But as BonnieNet &#8212; who&#8217;s done some good digging, and has put together <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilovebonnie.net\/2008\/02\/06\/apparently-ships-can-drag-anchors-from-egypt-to-malaysia\/\">a map of the locations<\/a> of the reported cuts &#8212; says, &#8220;3 was quite a few. 4 is pushing it. 5 starts to make you wonder.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We momentarily interrupt our Election Meltdown &#8217;08 coverage to quickly point out that a total of five large undersea Internet cables, leading to various areas of the Middle East, have now reportedly been &#8220;cut.&#8221; The Khaleej Times reports that &#8220;An estimated 1.7 million Internet users in the UAE have been affected by the recent undersea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,103],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-middle-east"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5666"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}