Word: standoff
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...Directorate R. So far, politically motivated computer attacks have been irritations or embarrassments rather than full-blown catastrophes. Chinese hackers attacked some 1,200 sites, including the White House, the Department of Energy and the Air Force, defacing some sites and putting others temporarily out of service, during a standoff with Washington over a spy plane last year. Russians and Eastern Europeans did the same during the war in Kosovo, and Pakistani and Indian hackers are doing it right now. Over a period of several years, U.S. investigators believe hackers - probably from Russia - tunneled into department of Defense sites...
...Musharraf was willing to make to ensure his regime's long-term survival, but Kashmir is a different matter. The battle for control over the mountainous territory has raged since Britain partitioned colonial India, creating the India we know today and the Islamic state of Pakistan. In Pakistan the standoff with India over Kashmir is also a central pillar of the military's claim to political power, and General Musharraf is the latest in a long line of generals that have seized power in Islamabad. Although Musharraf is politically popular, right now, being perceived to be anything but bellicose...
...only does the current standoff threaten to cloud any peace discussions this summer; it threatens at any moment to blow up in a new wave of violence that would entirely eclipse such discussions. The sharp uptick in attacks on Israelis and the continued Israeli operations inside Area A is more likely to produce a new explosion of bloodshed rather than any progress towards peace. Those who believe in Oslo's basic premise - that Israel and the Palestinian Authority can find their way to peace through bilateral negotiations - are fast becoming an endangered species. (Indeed, the only mainstream Israeli leader...
That outcome had taken weeks of negotiation. When Israeli and Palestinian authorities consented to the deportations as a way to defuse the standoff, Israeli hard-liners and Palestinians of every stripe complained that it was a sellout. But the situation had grown desperate. The city of Bethlehem had been in lockdown since April 2; food inside the church compound had virtually run out. Eight Palestinians had been killed by Israeli gunfire, and an Armenian monk had been wounded by an Israeli sniper...
...Israelis hoped that the shortage of food and water would force an end to the standoff. They sent chocolate in for the priests on Greek Orthodox Easter but blocked any cigarettes from getting in. "Imagine smokers who haven't had a cigarette for a few days, let alone weeks," said a member of the Israeli negotiating team that huddled with Palestinian officials to end the siege. "You wouldn't be able to stand it." Hungry and frightened, almost 100 civilians left the church over the first few weeks. The soldiers and gunmen stayed, as did the priests, determined to protect...