The Long War Journal: Winds of War Briefing - 03/14/2005

Written by Bill Roggio on March 14, 2005 1:51 AM to The Long War Journal

Available online at: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2005/03/winds_of_war_br_13.php

The Monday Winds of War Briefing is up. I am collaborating on this effort with evariste of Discarded Lies. The Winds of War Briefing is a roundup of the latest news on the Global War on Terror with a quick summary of each article. If you are interested in the details, progress and setbacks in the global war this is a must read. Here is a summary of some of the items covered:

Israel, to attack or not to attack?; The al Qaeda threat matrix, and Zarqawi; Lebanon update; Hezbollah's bad strategy; Iranian nuclear games: Roulette; Fun in Palestine; Nour free at last; Legitimizing Hezbollah?; The Homeland update; Aryans hearts Islamists; The Blind Sheikh still can speak to his flock; GPSC thinks big; The Nigerian Time-bomb; JI heart MILF; China hearts hates Taiwan; Khan!!!!!!; The dangers of outsourcing, to the Indians; New sheriff in Chechnya; A variety of European failures on the policing front; Kofi hearts Hezbollah; UN Peacekeepers heart Rape; Terrorist marketing strategies; and much, much more…

Also Read:

Jack Kelly looks at the hubris of Giuliana Sgrena, the Italian journalist of the Communist newspaper Il Manifesto who continues to claim she was intentially targeted by U.S. forces in Iraq. Channelling Eason Jordan....

William Rice looks at Karen Hughes' return to the aide of President Bush, and how her position will help in the War on Terror.

Another comprehensive Good News from Iraq from the tireless Arthur Chrenkoff. He asks if the news is getting better, or is the reporting getting better, and noticed the same trend in Afghanistan.

The Word Unheard has moved over to MovableType under a new domain, with the help of yours truly, so update your link. The Sarge gets off the ground running and reports on an al-Rovian scheme "of plotting and coordinating the recent assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in order to secure a US airbase in Lebanon." Now it's No War for Airbases. If only there was oil in Lebanon....

Athena smashes the "Terrorism is bred by poverty" myth by looking at the account of a Jordanian suicide bomber who carried out the attack on a health clinic in Hillah.