Masopher's Mind

A Korean owned ship the MT Ann and an Iraqi owned ship the MV Hounslow have been reported as being impounded for being connected with the cutting of the undersea internet cables reported earlier this year.
In The first few months of the year the undersea cable connecting the middle east to the rest of the world experience several breaks leading many to believe that there was sabotage or human error.
Both ships were located in Dubai. Whether the two are connected in unknown but it is noted that Korean-Iraqi boat traffic has risen 20 fold since the beginning of the Iraq war.

The prefixes of the Ann and Hounslow indicate that they are a motorized tanker and a motorized ship respectively. The Houslow is most likely diesel run.
It was reported that the owner of the Ann has admitted liability and was fined $60,000 (roughly £30,000)

So far Masopher has been unable to ascertain whether any of the sea men on Ann were discharged. She declined to comment.

In the January and early February 2008 as American elections and budget, tottering economies, Britney Spears, Amy Whinehouse and Nicolas Sarkozy dominated the news the Arab, Persian and  Asian world experienced something particularly strange. Ships were crashing into their internet/telephone lines![1][2]

A couple million people in the region went without telephony or had all their calls and data routed through Saudi Arabia and other places. Havok ensued as both stockmarkets and Warcraft raids was disrupted.

In five incidents which were reported to be unrelated, the fiberoptic link to and from middle eastern and Asian countries such as Egypt, Dubai, Iran, India, The United Arab Emirates and Quatar appear to have broken.[3]

The cables noted were: SEA-ME-WE 4, FLAG, FALCON, SEA-ME-WE.

At present speculators observably do not know what to make of this.
The West will blame China or Terrorists, Muslims will blame Zionists and crusaders, Africans will suspect colonialists, communists will suspect capitalists, capitalists will suspect underground economists or communists. Paranoid delusionists will suspect everyone from the NSA to the illuminati, officials will suspect undersea quakes and dragging anchors. The companies who laid them might suspect the rivals who are about to lay in their own cables, or even the satellite companies who were shafted by the cheapness of undersea wiring. [4] Even godzilla and sponge bob were implicated.

The truth is…if this isn’t a jihadist endgame strategy, we probably will never know. News like this is not reported because worse than the independent bloggers and conspiracy theorist the news corporations just would not know what to say. There is no fancy graphic or $200 an hour expert to drag infront of the camera to toe a political line.

The internet lines are private property belonging to large British and Asian national and multinational companies with no previous agenda or black marks against thier name.

As mentioned before while NSA subs have been suspect from as far back as 2001, this is unprecedented.

A jihadist end game strategy, operating out of Yemen Somalia and/or Pakistan could be a Nuclear bomb waiting for any investigators or simply a wish to isolate middle Asia from the evils of internet and telephone, bringing those countries crashing back into early 19th century communication methods. After watching 2 girls one cup I would want to swim down and gnaw the cables myself. One can only laugh at this amazing coincidence, misinformation or suspicious plot.
My 2 coins

Sources:
1. http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSBOM8160120080205
2. http://callcenterinfo.tmcnet.com/analysis/articles/20044-damage-fourth-undersea-cable-sparks-conspiracy-theories.htm
3. http://gizmodo.com/353284/five-undersea-cables-cut-so-far
4. http://callcenterinfo.tmcnet.com/analysis/articles/20044-damage-fourth-undersea-cable-sparks-conspiracy-theories.htm
5. http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2008/February/theuae_February155.xml&section=theuae