Another possibility, highlighted by Indian intelligence services in recent months, is a linkup with groups based in Bangladesh, the populous and poverty-hit state to the east, which has suffered intermittent bouts of extremist violence over the last decade.
Now, on a huge screen, staff and guests watched the editor of Politkovskaya's old paper, Novaya Gazeta, talk gloomily on a video linkup from Moscow about the battle to survive.
The Greek Cypriot sector became a major international telecommunications hub in the 1990s, installing submarine fibre-optic cables and satellite linkup facilities.
By the end of D-Day, few objectives had been seized, though the four exits from Utah Beach were held by the 101st Airborne, and a linkup with the 4th Division had been achieved.
& the continuing preparations for linkup of Soviet & American space modules.
Akin addicts, on the other hand, will emerge undernournished, granted only fitfully the shots of scruffy yearning that we crave: Zinos, say, staggering from a bar at dawn, onto a gray road, with a fellow-drinker propped against him, or holding sad, horny conversations on a video linkup with his distant girlfriend.
Dickey was equipped with a satellite linkup, a laptop and a mobile phone to chronicle his trip from the mountain in a series of articles and blog entries for The New York Times.
"They can come here, or we can have a video linkup, or they can accept a statement of mine," he said.
In 2009, the global miner Rio Tinto had to walk away from a proposed $19.5 billion linkup with Chinalco of China, a state-owned resources company, after regulators in Australia balked at the deal.
Or, perhaps, BP could simply walk away from a linkup with Rosneft.
The linkup is automatic and quick — about 10 seconds.
