INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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.
