Middle East

The capacity of the submarine cable system South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe-4 (SEA-ME-WE-4), which connects many countries between Singapore and France, is to be doubled by the end of 2009 under a multi-million dollar project. The upgrade will be beneficial to India, as the cable system in one of the major bandwidth providers to the country. The doubling of the cable system would result in increasing the trunk capacity of the cable and helping it support increasing broadband traffic .
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A third undersea cable has been cut, effectively eliminating the Internet in the Middle East. But according to CNN that cable outage does not extend to Israel, Lebanon and Iraq. Is it a coincidence that these three countries, who represent the next phase of the war on terrorism, were spared in the communications blackout that is affecting the rest of the Middle East? ... The news of the multiple acts of cable sabotage are clear proof that a hostile force is doing its best to isolate the .
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A third undersea cable has been cut, effectively eliminating the Internet in the Middle East. But according to CNN that cable outage does not extend to Israel, Lebanon and Iraq. Is it a coincidence that these three countries, who represent the next phase of the war on terrorism, were spared in the communications blackout that is affecting the rest of the Middle East? ... The news of the multiple acts of cable sabotage are clear proof that a hostile force is doing its best to isolate the .
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I-love, I-Laugh , I-show. Une vidéo hilarante. Je vous laisse découvrir! “Trust me, the intelligence briefings I got on the I-Rack are completely credible”, “I’m confident that the I-rack will work without any directions or plans of any sort” -”Does anyone here want me to take things out of the I-Rack?” -”Yeaaaah” -” I hear what you’re saying and the answer is NOOOO!” -”We will not support you with this!!!”.
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25 years ago, on 12/14/1981, the Knesset passed a law annexing the Syrian Golan heights to the state of Israel. This is a known fact, right? But it is very interesting how history gets written sometimes, specially when you read the NY Times article relating the news on that day. JERUSALEM, Dec. 14 -- The contested Golan Heights formally became part of Israel today as Prime Minister Menachem Begin pushed a measure through Parliament to annex the strategic zone along the Syrian border. Official.
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