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Shafaq News/ Iraq's National Backbone, a government-funded project to establish a nationwide fiber optic infrastructure network, reported "terrorist attacks" targeting cables installed in the governorate of Basra in the far south of the country.An official statement said that a newly installed cabinet coded FBS64 was sabotaged a few days prior to putting it into service.The project said that the attack is not the first, with similar incidents taking place recently in Nineveh, Dhi Qar, and Baghdad, recently.