{"id":219,"date":"2007-02-20T13:30:59","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T18:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=219"},"modified":"2007-02-20T13:30:59","modified_gmt":"2007-02-20T18:30:59","slug":"news-and-analysis-22007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (2\/20\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Quagmire in Iraq and support for repressive regimes have allowed Al-Qaeda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s influence to extend into North Africa: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/20\/world\/africa\/20tunisia.html?pagewanted=2&#038;_r=1\"><font size=\"2\">North Africa Feared as Staging Ground for Terror<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (New York Times)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/02\/19\/AR2007021901168.html?nav=hcmodule\"><font size=\"2\">Terrorist Networks Lure Young Moroccans to War in Far-Off Iraq<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Washington Post)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Disclosure of US plans to attack Iran include wide list of military targets and would be set in motion by one of two \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctriggers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6376639.stm\"><font size=\"2\">US &#8216;Iran Attack Plans&#8217; Revealed<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (BBC News)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6which has some Iranians very concerned: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6378765.stm\"><font size=\"2\">Tehran Alarm Over US Tough Talk<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (BBC News)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Evidence of Somalia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s power vacuum is apparent after some of the most intense fighting since the Islamic Courts Union was ousted last year: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6377941.stm\"><font size=\"2\">Heavy Shelling in Somali Capital<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (BBC News)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">In spite of recent train bombing, Pakistan-India peace talks have not been derailed: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/fa784108-c0b4-11db-bf18-000b5df10621.html\"><font size=\"2\">India and Pakistan Press Ahead with Talks<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Financial Times)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Op-ed explains how the Crimean Tatars independent political and religious civil society is a model for stopping extremism: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0220\/p09s02-coop.html\"><font size=\"2\">A Lesson in Stifling Violent Extremism<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quagmire in Iraq and support for repressive regimes have allowed Al-Qaeda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s influence to extend into North Africa: North Africa Feared as Staging Ground for Terror (New York Times) Terrorist Networks Lure Young Moroccans to War in Far-Off Iraq (Washington Post) Disclosure of US plans to attack Iran include wide list of military targets and would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","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\/219","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}