{"id":185,"date":"2007-01-18T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T19:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=185"},"modified":"2007-01-19T22:24:54","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T03:24:54","slug":"news-and-analysis011807","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (1\/18\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Somali President begins crack down on opposition:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/01\/17\/AR2007011700479_pf.html\">Somali Parliament Strips Speaker&#8217;s Power<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">A bill before Congress proposes to, finally, establish an appeals process for the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Terrorist Watch List:\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/01\/04\/AR2007010401242.html\">Democrats Set Homeland Security Changes<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Maliki\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new tone: is he just talking the talk?<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-maliki18jan18,0,2428620.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">Iraqi Premier Pledges Firm Hand with Militants<\/a> (LA Time)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">More finger pointing: Iran accuses the US of kidnapping five Iranians in Northern Iraqi city of Irbil.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6274837.stm\">Iran Condemns US &#8216;kidnap&#8217; in Iraq<\/a> (BBC)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Can there really be a lasting peace in the Middle East without engaging Iran? <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afp.com\/english\/news\/stories\/070118115336.assy7hi4.html\">Rice, Merkel see chance for Middle East peace<\/a> (AFP)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Treasury Department questions \u00e2\u20ac\u0153whether the counterterrorism benefit outweighs banks&#8217; costs of compliance\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and raises concerns over privacy:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomsphoenix.com\/Find-Freedom.htm?At=014154\">Vast Data Collection Plan Faces Big Delay<\/a><strong> <\/strong>(Freedom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Phoenix\/Washington Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somali President begins crack down on opposition: Somali Parliament Strips Speaker&#8217;s Power (Washington Post) A bill before Congress proposes to, finally, establish an appeals process for the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Terrorist Watch List:\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Democrats Set Homeland Security Changes (Washington Post) Maliki\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new tone: is he just talking the talk? Iraqi Premier Pledges Firm Hand with Militants (LA Time) [&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-185","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\/185","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=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}