The article says they lost the connection, and also that it was restored a few hours later as far as I can see. I might be wrong but the title makes this out to be something they did on purpose, permanently. Which does not seem the case.
There was a temporary outage on Nov. 27, which was restored after two hours. We don't yet know what's happening today.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/29/us-syria-crisis-id...