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As earlier reported work has commenced on repairing the severed cables in the Mediterranean but it seems we are no closer to knowing why three cables were cut within four days of each other last week.

The initial assumption that a Tanker got into trouble and had to drop anchor was initially rejected by the shipping company, and seems to have been dismissed now totally. As you can imagine conspiracy theorists and experts are having a great duration trying to get to the bottom of that.

What wasn’t immediately obvious was that a second cable broke within a couple of hours of the first, which may or may not have been related, but hours later a third cable close to Dubai broke that has to be a unrelated incident given the moment difference within incidents. Historically

multiple cable fractures are linked to Earthquakes, but that wasn’t a factor here, and for two ships to drop their anchors onto two different parts of the cable is remote indeed, particularly when officials are saying there were no ships on the vicinity at the date.

So what do the conspiracists say? They are blaming everyone from government agencies to terrorists, and in an amusing aside referencing James Bond’s enemy Goldfinger:

“Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third date is enemy action.”

I am now hooked on that so expect more reports as more knowledge becomes available!

Via [The Times]

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