Vicious Vortexes: a Line of Dancing Winds, from Xinchiang Province of China through Western Asia into Africa as far a Mauritania on the Atlantic.

Let us list the cyclonic 'winds' now whipping up dust in the settlements of Africa, the Middle East, Central and South Asia. Uyghur resistance in Kashgar, Yarkand, Akcha, Urumchi. Terrorist attacks as far distant as Kunming in Yunnan Province. A devilish set of conditions afflicting both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Iran's involvement in Iraq and in the Syrian war, in support of Bashar Al Asad. Daghestan, where a gangster-style low-intensity war sputters daily with shootings, etc. In Yemen, Eritrea and Ethiopia, into Somalia. Inside Africa, a new Saharan front opens with insurgency in Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Central Africa Republic, with cross-Saharan links to Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia and Egypt. Then there is Syria, in its fpourth year of civil war. Like other Arab revolutions, the militant Jihadists gain control over the movement, using extreme violence to eliminate opposition. Iraq is a gaping wound that will not heal. On June 11th, 2014, ISIS captured Iraq's second city, Mosul and is now marching on Baghdad.