Well duh. Yep, it could have been...
How better to disrupt the commerce centers of Asia and the Middle East? Isn't that precisely what groups like Al Qaida want to do? Course, they're more targeted on we infidels over here, but there are plenty of infidels over there they can practice on.
UN Agency: Undersea Cables Cuts Causing Major Internet Disruptions Possibly Sabotage:
Damage to several undersea telecom cables that caused outages across the Middle East and Asia (see CircleID posts Jan 31, 2008 and Feb 07, 2008) could have been an act of sabotage, the International Telecommunication Union said on Monday. "We do not want to preempt the results of ongoing investigations, but we do not rule out that a deliberate act of sabotage caused the damage to the undersea cables over two weeks ago," the UN agency's head of development, Sami al-Murshed, said. More...