{"id":160,"date":"2006-12-28T11:42:52","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T16:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=160"},"modified":"2007-01-08T11:33:43","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T16:33:43","slug":"news-and-analysis-122806","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/28\/06)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Hajj: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is a time of unity for all Muslims, Shi&#8217;ites and Sunnis.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/28\/AR2006122800222.html\">Muslim Pilgrims Say Safety in God&#8217;s Hands at Haj<\/a> (Reuters\/Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Former Guantanamo detainee who wrote book criticizing Pakistani intelligence agency (ISI) disappears\u00e2\u20ac\u201dallegedly taken by ISI:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/world\/AP-Pakistan-Guantanamo-Author.html\">AP: Ex &#8211; Guantanamo Detainee Held Again<\/a> (AP\/NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;The technology used to identify a terrorist in a safe house in Iraq is the exact same technology that can be used to identify a war protester in a Quaker meeting house in southern Florida.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2006\/1227\/p01s03-usfp.html\">US Creates Terrorist Fingerprint Database<\/a> (The Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With the seeming defeat of the Islamists, Mogadishu returns to the warlord chaos of the past: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bands of armed thugs swept through the markets, smashing and stealing at will\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/28\/world\/africa\/28somalia.html?pagewanted=1\">Islamist Forces in Somali City Vanish<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Are polygamous men really following Islamic law?  Study of social and economic effects of polygamy to begin in Malaysia:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/world\/AP-Malaysia-Polygamy.html\">Malaysian Activists to Study Polygamy<\/a> (AP\/NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Minefield on Pakistan-Afghanistan border will separate families and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153add to civilian casualties:\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/03953DFB-F3AD-4187-82F4-2723CA0A9386.htm\">Pakistan Border Mines Worry UN<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">US criticizes Israeli plan to build new settlement in the West Bank<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6213193.stm\">Israel Settlement Plan Angers US<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Fa\u00c3\u00a7ade of democracy: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Election chief Murad Kariyev said on Tuesday he would &#8220;do everything&#8221; he could to ensure Mr Berdymukhamedov won &#8220;because he is a worthy candidate&#8221;:\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/6213875.stm\">Turkmen &#8216;Heir Apparent&#8217; Emerges<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">BBC reporter investigates secret CIA flights and interrogation centers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/6212843.stm\">Hunt for CIA &#8216;Black Site&#8217; in Poland<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Closed borders led to 6,000 deaths in Canary Islands, alone, in 2006:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/41062553-3A01-41E7-AC17-01A9EDFB8D44.htm\">Spain Reveals Perils of Migration<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hajj: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is a time of unity for all Muslims, Shi&#8217;ites and Sunnis.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Muslim Pilgrims Say Safety in God&#8217;s Hands at Haj (Reuters\/Washington Post) Former Guantanamo detainee who wrote book criticizing Pakistani intelligence agency (ISI) disappears\u00e2\u20ac\u201dallegedly taken by ISI: AP: Ex &#8211; Guantanamo Detainee Held Again (AP\/NY Times) &#8220;The technology used to identify a terrorist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}