Winds of War

Evariste at the Winds of Change.NET has put up the latest Winds of War for all of your world news needs. Here are some highlights:

• The Department of Energy is going to release a whoooole lot of energy, blowing up truck bombs in the desert to figure out whether nuclear site security barriers are vulnerable to them.
  
  
• Iran headed for confrontation, Bush not ruling out force, McCain insisting force must be kept as an option, sitzpinkler sitzpinkles.
  
  
• A man in Turkish custody claims to be a buddy of Zarqawi's, and US intelligence is taking him seriously.
  
  
• Another month, another Al Qaeda chief in Saudi Arabia killed. Tune in next month for the next thrilling episode with a totally unexpected conclusion.

• Noted traitor Sean Penn gives comfort to the enemy again.

• Bombs in Beirut.

• Gaza is Judenrein.

• Putin flirts with Abdullah: "I will lend you money to buy my weapons."
  
  
• It looks like 50-60,000 US troops will remain in Iraq near-permanently, in four mega-bases. Currently, US troops are housed in over a hundred bases, which is being reduced to 14, then four.
  
  
• Americans, Brits, Jordanians, Egyptians and Israelis agree: in light of the Gaza disengagement and Eilat attack, Zarqawi now poses an imminent threat to Israel.
  
  
• The Arab Bank was fined 24 million smackeroos for financing Palestinian terrorism, and may ultimately face up to $5 billion in claims.

• The States and the Federal government are increasingly out of step with each other on border security as two border states declare states of emergency while Federal agencies dither and make excuses. Other states may follow New Mexico and Arizona's lead, such as California, where governor Schwarzenegger praised the two states' moves.

• Nevada is studying how terrorists might strike Las Vegas tourists.

• Northcom has selected three (out of a hundred tested) communications and coordination technologies for homeland defense and emergency management teams.

• A peek at bioterrorism response exercises, which are mandatory annually for hospitals if they want to receive certain kinds of funding.

• US shopping mall security outfits are proving far more receptive to Israeli-style "software" attack prevention (focusing on the behavior of potential attackers and human judgment) than they were in 2003 to American-style "hardware" security (big fancy detectors of various sorts).
  
  
• How noted bastard AQ Khan gave bin Laden the bomb. We're still not allowed to interrogate the scoundrel. But did you know that Pakistan is a vital ally in the war on terror? That's what they say.
  
  
• US gets hundreds, some POWs for 20 years, freed in Morocco mediation.
  
  
• Al Qaeda nerve gas attack on the House of Commons foiled.
  
  
• Surprising no one, Al Qaeda claimed the rocket attack in Eilat. The only casualty was a Jordanian soldier.

And much more!