These net outages in the Middle East

[andygates]

Four, or maybe five undersea communications cables have ceased working - been cut or shut down due to a power barf.  Nobody's sure who did what.  Early theories about anchor-dragging boats are now being denied, Iran is in a little net black hole, and the USS Jimmy Carter (the cable "maintenance" ship) is in the area.  Sober speculators and paranoid nuts alike are fizzing with ideas as to who, what and why.  Tinfoil beanies are go!

I know who dunnit.  It's obvious really: deep undersea action, a sense of paranoia, building yet unplaceable dread?

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!  Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. Ia!