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Thursday Winds of War: April 21/05

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Welcome! Our goal at Winds of Change.NET is to give you one power-packed briefing of insights, news and trends from the global War on Terror that leaves you stimulated, informed, and occasionally amused every Monday & Thursday. Thursday's Winds of War briefings are given by me, Colt, of Eurabian Times.

TOP TOPICS

  • Lebanon's PM-designate has formed a cabinet. Debka says Michel Aoun is coming back to Lebanon to run for president, and that Mikati's cabinet was chosen with French and American input. We'll see. Meanwhile, a hand grenade attack in Beirut has wounded three.
  • Putin says the SA-18 sale to Syria will go ahead. "It will make flying low difficult," implying what has long been believed to be the reason for the sale of the anti-aircraft missiles: Syrian embarrassment over Israeli air force planes "buzzing" presidential palaces
  • Istanbul police have arrested six Chechens who were trying to learn how to build bombs from Islamic extremists. Police believe they would have conducted attacks against Russian forces in Chechnya.

Other Topics Today Include: Iran demands; 140 in jail; immodesty crackdown; PLO gets EU help; Hezbollah UAV enters Israel; KSA wants nuke observers out; nascent Iraqi air force; Yemen closes schools; Oman trials; Mossaoui asks for death; Ansar al-Islam trial suspended; Dagestan bomb; 17 dead Taliban; new terror list includes LeT AKAs; dead GIA leader surrenders; aid workers attacked; EU gets tough on Sudan; and much more.

IRAN

  • There's a great FT interview with an Iranian official. As long as the negotiations are progressing and are not conducted to kill time, we will continue them. Huh. Europe is negotiating to kill time?
  • An MEP says a delegation's visit to Iran was 'fruitful and positive'. On Iran's treatment of women, she said "they are part and parcel of a society and an important element in the democratization".

THE MIDDLE EAST

  • Peace-maker-in-chief Mahmoud Abbas says Israel is inciting against him.

IRAQ AND THE GULF

THE AMERICAS

EUROPE

  • George Galloway has been attacked by Hizb ut-Tahrir, who say there is a fatwa against him. I think this is what's called 'blue-on-blue'.
  • The trial of an Iraqi Kurd accused of Ansar al-Islam membership has been suspended.
  • A car bomb in Dagestan has killed two people. Police believe it was a botched attempt on the local prosecutor's life.

ASIA & AUSTRALASIA

  • Sheikh Omar, Daniel Pearl's killer, says he met with Osama Bin Laden twice.
  • Negotiators says the talks MILF-Filipino-government are going well.

AFRICA

  • An aid-agency run children's hospital in Somalia has been attacked with hand-grenades. This follows the murder of a Scandanavian aid worker on Monday. The aid agency was accused of trying to 'Christianize' Somali children.

TRANSNATIONAL

  • Two senior investigators for the Volcker Committee have resigned.

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Tracked: April 21, 2005 5:52 PM
Blue-on-Blue from the fourth rail
Excerpt: The assault of radical British politician George Galloway highlights the dangers of attempting to co-opt the forces of radical Islam. George Galloway, a former Minister of Parliament, advocate of Palestinian terrorism and supporter of Saddam Hussein ha...
Tracked: April 21, 2005 11:45 PM
Winds of Change Briefing from Security Watchtower
Excerpt: Thursday's Winds of War Briefing has been posted at Winds of Change. Check them out....

1 Comment

Does Israel have a HARM equivalent? Does it work on SA-18 radar? Could be interesting.

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