The Long War Journal: Winds of War 4^th of July 2005 Edition

Written by Bill Roggio on July 4, 2005 12:38 AM to The Long War Journal

Available online at: http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2005/07/winds_of_war_fo.php

Happy 4^th of July. The Monday Winds of War Briefing is available. I am collaborating on this effort with evariste of Discarded Lies. Here are some of the items covered:

Maritime terror and piracy overview; NA infrastructure protection; Israel back to good graces; Special Ops soldier rescued in Afghanistan; US and India sign major defense; CIA update; Gertz's China analyses; Italian furore over renditions continues; Downing Street Memo agitators take a new tack; proliferating Russian and Chinese companies targeted for asset seizure; Turabi released; France assists CIA on terrorist tracking; Minutemen activism away from the border; illegal immigration, OTMs, and Hezbollah's pipeline into America; Chinese suppress dissent; Russian-US cooperation on terror; Beijing-Moscow statement allying on Chechnya, Taiwan; Russian basing in Georgia and Armenia; the CNOOC bid to take over UNOCAL and much more...

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