{"id":87421,"date":"2026-10-22T20:24:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/windward-intelligence-report-october-22\/87421\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T20:24:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T17:24:28","slug":"windward-intelligence-report-october-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/windward-intelligence-report-october-22\/87421\/","title":{"rendered":"Windward Intelligence Report: October 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"meta\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-10-22T12:37:20.0000000\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n            <span class=\"date\">October 22, 2026<\/span>&#13;<br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2026-10-22T12:37:20.0000000\"\/>&#13;\n        <\/p>\n<div class=\"images-wrapper single\">\n<div class=\"images\">\n<div class=\"image active\">\n                <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a9 Windward&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">Windward is publishing intelligence reports on the crisis in the Gulf as the situation develops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">From today\u2019s brief:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN\">Iran named the Hormuz subsea cables as targets this week, with an IRGC\u00a0spokesman warning that new targets and new weapons would be unveiled.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN\">The attack campaign widened on two fronts. A Suezmax tanker was likely struck by a rocket propelled\u00a0grenade fired from a small boat in the central Gulf on October 16<sup>th<\/sup>, and a Netherlands-flagged tug\u00a0was struck northeast of Khor Fakkan, the 27th attack this month.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN\">EO imagery on October 19 shows a VLCC-size tanker actively leaking oil off Umm Al Quwain, with\u00a0Windward\u2019s drift model putting the slick on the Umm Al Quwain shoreline from October 22 and within three kilometers of two Sharjah desalination plants by October 24.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\">The full report can be accessed\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1tVpSRXqVKmGlyvPhT-wlFSXF67qydlrY\/view?usp=drive_link\"><span lang=\"EN\">here<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"EN\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>maritime professional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; October 22, 2026&#13; &#13; &#13; \u00a9 Windward&#13; Windward is publishing intelligence reports on the crisis in the Gulf as the situation develops. From today\u2019s brief:\u00a0 Iran named the Hormuz subsea cables as targets this week, with an IRGC\u00a0spokesman warning that new targets and new weapons would be unveiled. The attack campaign widened on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/87422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}