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Thursday Winds of War: October 27/05

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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 Matt 'Colt' of Eurabian Times and Steve 'USMC_Vet' of The Word Unheard.

TOP TOPICS

  • Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the destruction of Israel. President Bush and Prime Minister Blair were particularly daming in their condemnation, and the E.U. has released a statement declaring the comments unacceptable. Blair told an interviewer that the question he would be asked would soon be, what are you going to do about Iran, rather than should something be done. The rhetoric from Sky News was fairly heated, too. Iran hasn't had press this bad from the British media in a while.

Other Topics Today Include: Iran lets A-Q roam; Copts fear more riots; Bakri sets up terror U; PA recruits terrorists as police; A-Q hits media in Iraq; Roggio off to Anbar; mini-nukes shelved; MS-13 kill-a-cop day; Galloway lied to Congress; Germany convicts Zarqawiites; Turks nab another A-Q plotter; terrorist scouts targets in Delhi; Kabul attacked; Russians nail three in Dagestan; terrorists and aid-workers in Kashmir; China's military spending more than double official total; JI gets smarter; war between Ethiopia and Eritrea? and more...

Iran

  • Ahmadinejad also ridiculed the West's cowardly handling of Iran's developing nuclear program. He even offers an anecdote about Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohammed ElBaradei: "...Mohammad ElBaradei, the secretary general of the [International Atomic Energy] Agency [IAEA] recently told us, ‘They don’t want you to have nuclear technology’."

The Middle East

  • Egyptian Copts fear a repeat - or worse - of the recent Muslim attacks on their churches. The rioters killed four Christians, injured 80 and defaced seven churches. More on their appeal for help here.
  • Israel, Egypt, the PA and the EU have agreed to a deal on the Rafah checkpoint from Gaza to Egypt. In the same link, a Knesset committee notes that soon Hamas will have military parity with the PA.

Iraq and the Gulf

  • The U.S. has bombed targets near the Syrian border. A senior al-Qaeda leader, Abu Dua, may have been killed. Fingers crossed.
  • Bill Roggio is going to the Anbar province in Iraq - help him out.
  • Anglicans are to build a church in Qatar.

The Americas

  • The project to build bunker-busting mini-nukes has been cancelled.
  • Ba'athist-for-hire George Galloway lied to Congress. That's a Class-A felony, George.
  • You've probably heard of the Hezbollah bombing of a Jewish community centre in Argentina in July 1994. But, like me, you may not have heard that a small aeroplane carrying 21 people (12 of them Jewish) was blown up the next day, apparently by a suicide bomber. Wikipedia has more.

Europe

  • The Danish prime minister "will not meet with Muslim ambassadors":http://www.cphpost.dk/get/91710.html to discuss the 'smear campaign' against Islam in the media.

Central and Western Asia

Australasia and the Orient

  • China's military spending is actually double the declared figure. The International Institute of Strategic Studies estimates the Chinese spent $62.5bn last year, as opposed to the declared total of $25bn.
  • JI seems to be getting smarter, hence the lack of breakthroughs on the recent Bali bombing.

Africa

  • Ethiopia and Eritrea are sliding in to war, according to the Financial Times. (Steve Schippert sent me this link last week - since then, the FT have archived the report. However, an Eritrean group called the Oromo Liberation Front have a copy of the story here.)

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5 Comments

Interestingly, even Russia has come out and bluntly condemned the Iranian President's statement about wiping Israel off the map:

"What I saw on TV is inadmissible. We will make this clear to the Iranian side," [Russian Foreign Minister] Lavrov said upon his arrival in Jordan.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20051027/41912542.html

He also recognised that it makes the US case for bringing Iran to the UN Security Council much stronger.

Sadly, though, Russia has equally bluntly rejected calls to take Syria to the UN Security Council.

To the UN Security Council? Like Saddam?

My Godness

The MSM has given extensive coverage to reaction to the Iranian statements in Europe, Canada, Australia, and some to the more muted reactions in the Islamic world and Iran. I have not seen anything on reaction in Japan, China, or Latin America. Anyone seen anything? (this relates to an arugement ive having elsewhere)

I believe that the time has come to move the Iranian file to the (UN) Security Council and the sooner the better. But the Russian foreign minister differed, saying: "We rely on the professional advice of the agency (International Atomic Energy Agency). It is too serious (an issue) to be guided by politics."

Would Moscow play it cool and turn a blind eye on the Iranian nuclear program? The answer seems to be obvious.

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