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Conspiracy theories emerge after internet cables cut - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Is information warfare to blame for the damage to underwater internet cables that has interrupted internet service to millions of people in India and Egypt, or is it just a series of accidents?
When two cables in the Mediterranean were severed last week, it was put down to a mishap with a stray anchor.

Now a third cable has been cut, this time near Dubai. That, along with new evidence that ships' anchors are not to blame, has sparked theories about more sinister forces that could be at work.

Doesn't give any clue what that evidence is - except to note there was video showing no traffic in the area where and when the cables were damaged.

And now - there's this.

Fourth cable cut in Mideast | Threat Chaos | ZDNet.com

Details are a bit sparse, though...

Think there'll be a fifth, and sixth?

It's peculiar - whatever it is.

And it looks like I wasn't the only one thinking of the commerce aspects of this... India seems somewhat sensitive to the implications.

And then I remembered... Russia sold Iran some subs in '97... Iran Bolsters Its Fleet With 3d Russian Sub - New York Times

Would Iran be stupid enough to use the Russian subs to sneak in, snip cables, and then boogie quietly away?

And just how loaded with hydrophones is that area, I wonder?

J.