One does have to wonder, is it the government that tried to cut the internet from Egypt? And is it the government that the military in Egypt is calling criminal? If so, this could work out OK.
H/T Magic Martin
AHRAM.Org:
Attempt to cut internet cable halted by Egyptian marines
Ahram Online, Wednesday 27 Mar 2013
Egypt’s marines stopped a ‘criminal operation’ on Wednesday to sever a regional Mediterranean cable providing internet to Egypt, said a military source.
Wearing diving suits, three of the “criminals” were arrested while on a fishing boat in the Shatbi area in the coastal city of Alexandria.
Internet services in Egypt have been disrupted by earlier damage to an undersea cable, Link Dot Net boss Waseem Arsani told Ahram Online earlier in the day.
You may be right, but even if it was some civilian group of fundamentalists this is still a good sign.
Might not be a good sign. Most global jihad networks communicate with each other via the internet. The Egyptian government may have decided that cutting web access was a little too drastic.
Remember that if Muslims didn’t have the internet they would never have been able to complain about the Mohammed movie, nor would they be able to launch cyber-attacks against their enemies. It seems that jihadists don’t want anyone else to access information but at the same time they don’t want to cut themselves off either.