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Transatlantic cable down. Are they busy installing a prism?

Where is the USS Jimmy Carter?

For everyone else who didn't catch the reference, apparently this Seawolf-class submarine can tap undersea cables.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/20/politics/20submarine.html

http://cryptome.org/eyeball/mmp/jimmy-carter.htm

They just want to redirect some traffic through the US for a while.

Yeah, that is kinda the point of having transatlantic cables in the first place :)

So this is the famous "losing hearts and minds".

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