http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7795320.stm
Internet cables were cut causing disruptions in communications for the connected countries. I first found out about this from wiki's events list. When I read it there there are apparently a few theories floating about. No way of knowing if they're ture but interesting all the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_subma … 9_December
Internet cables were cut causing disruptions in communications for the connected countries. I first found out about this from wiki's events list. When I read it there there are apparently a few theories floating about. No way of knowing if they're ture but interesting all the same.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_subma … 9_December
Wiki wrote:
Some have suggested something more sinister is afoot. Israel and Iraq were not affected, sparking conspiracy theories that spread throughout the Internet.
According to this sabotage theory, the damaged cables and the resulting Internet disruptions would destroy confidence in the ability of the Iranian Oil Bourse to execute trades, thereby thwarting the establishment of an alternative to dollar-denominated oil sales. In fact, Iran suffered very little from the outages, which primarily affected America's allies in the region.
On 6 February, theories that the disruption in these cables was related to an economic confrontation between the United States and Iran appeared in an opinion piece on Dow Jones Marketwatch. This article points out that the disruption or damage to these cables preceded the intended launch of the Iranian oil bourse on Kish Island between February 1st and 11th. The launch of this bourse, which was intended to broker sales of oil denominated in euros (sometimes called "petroeuros") had been interpreted by some as an attempt by Iran to inflict additional damage to the value of the dollar by reducing the volume of oil which is traded in "petrodollars". Given the potential economic damage of euro-denominated oil sales in the context of on-going dollar deflation, as well as the large number of cables which appear to have been disrupted or damaged, Marketwatch's John Dvorak has written that the U.S. can expect to be blamed for the disruptions.
On Monday, 18 February, the International Telecommunication Union said that the damage could have been an act of sabotage. The UN agency's head of development, Sami al-Murshed was quoted, "We do not want to preempt the results of ongoing investigations, but we do not rule out that a deliberate act of sabotage caused the damage to the undersea cables over two weeks ago."
