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RE: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

  • From: Randy Epstein
  • Date: Fri Feb 01 18:47:06 2008

Title: RE: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

RodBeck said:

>Telecommunication facilities have rarely been targets of terrorism. There is only one known case - the Tamil Tigers destroyed a central office in Sri Lanka some years back. My guess is that terrorists want to kill people, not destroy optical muxes, >Class 5 switches, and the like.

Actually, last year, Scotland Yard claimed Al Qaeda planned on blowing up one of the Telehouse facilities in the UK: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/garfinkel/17561/

Randy