Word: hizballah
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What do a small south Texas cable company, a suburban Virginia cable provider and Web-hosting servers in Delhi, Montreal, Brooklyn and New Jersey have in common? Since fighting broke out in Lebanon, they all have had their communications portals hijacked by Hizballah. Hackers from the militant Lebanese group are trolling the Internet for vulnerable sites to communicate with one another and to broadcast messages from Al-Manar television, which is banned in the U.S. In the cyberterrorism trade it is known as "whack-a-mole" - just like the old carnival game, Hizballah sites pop up, get whacked down...
...Israel is skeptical of how much help it will receive in policing Hizballah from Lebanon's weak and ill-equipped army, which currently lacks the ability - and the political will - to confront Hizballah...
...Even the Israelis admit that an international force, no matter how robust, won't be able to enforce a peace without Hizballah's consent. Says one Israeli former security chief, "All Nasrallah has to do is speak the language of the Middle Ages - call these troops 'crusaders' who are helping the Jews - and the Muslim extremists will turn against the peacekeepers...
...Israel's past troubles with the U.N. forces in Lebanon suggest the international mission could also be complicated by Israel's reacting directly to perceived threats by killing Hizballah leaders or bombing supply lines from Syria. Still, despite the limited optimism over its prospects, the Israelis and the Lebanese agree that it may be their only hope of achieving a cease-fire. Until, Sgt. Yoshua says he intends to keep updating the marks on the barrel of his tank's cannon with the number of Hizballah kills claimed by his platoon - 50 so far, he says. And somewhere across...
...Although Hizballah has indicated a willingness to trade an end to its rocket fire into Israel in exchange for an end to Israeli bombing of Lebanese cities, it also insists that it will continue to fight against any Israeli forces that seek to remain on Lebanese territory. Which means that Hizballah won't accept the cease-fire currently being discussed at the U.N., which envisages Israel remaining in southern Lebanon until the international force arrives - thus effectively postponing the deployment of such a force...