Got your tinfoil hats on, gentlemen? Then let’s get down to business.

• January 23, an undersea high-speed link near Bandar Abbas (Iran) was cut.
• January 30, an undersea high-speed link from Alexandria (Egypt) to Italy was cut.
• February 1, an undersea high-speed link between Dubai (UAE) and Oman was cut.
• February 3, an undersea high-speed link between Haloul (Qatar) and Das (UAE) was cut.
• Yesterday we find out that there’s another cut on a link out of Alexandria, apparently on the same line that went out on the 30th.

Lots of very important and knowledgeable people are bending themselves in pretzels to keep from prompting the press into any wild speculation. Of course they are, transit providers and government security officials don’t want panic. More curiously, the press has been rather quiet about it. Since when did journalists avoid rumormongering that might lead to widespread fear and panic? Particularly in regards to this region of the world? Any word on this on the nightly news?

My personal theory is that somebody (the CIA, Mossad, MI-6, whomever) is working a NSA-style dragnet on data crossing through somewhere in that area, and are taking steps to increase the portion of middle eastern communications that are passing through their sniffers.