{"id":2234,"date":"2009-10-05T09:35:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T14:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2009-10-05T09:35:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T14:35:24","slug":"news-and-analysis-10509","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=2234","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/5\/09)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In domestic terrorism investigations, the FBI engages in a policy somewhere between cooperating with and intimidating Muslim community leaders:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/10\/04\/AR2009100402783.html\">Probes Test Trust That Authorities Strove to Win From U.S. Muslims<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further illustrating that only the people suffer from government issued sanctions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/05\/world\/middleeast\/05sanctions.html?ref=world\">Black Market Shows Iran Can Adapt to Sanctions<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The extraordinary level of fraud in the August vote &#8216;has handed the Taliban its greatest strategic victory in eight years of fighting the United States and its Afghan partners'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/oct\/04\/un-envoy-galbraith-afghanistan-karzai\">Fired UN Envoy Claims Third of Hamid Karzai Votes Fraudulent<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Arab leaders fracture over the handling of Goldstone&#8217;s report on the Israeli invasion into Gaza:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2009\/10\/200910503830532547.html\">Syria Rebuffs Abbas Over Gaza Delay<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the deadliest attack in over a year at an outpost slated to be closed&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-afghan-soldiers5-2009oct05,0,2193948.story\">Afghanistan Assault Points Out U.S. Vulnerabilities<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; Experts evaluate the effectiveness of US strategy almost 8 years into the war &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2009\/1004\/p06s10-usmi.html\">Is US Strategy in Afghanistan Working?<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and we argue that before you startegize you must first know your own objectives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=2230\">How to Strategize for Afghanistan<\/a> (Minaret of Freedom Institute)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In domestic terrorism investigations, the FBI engages in a policy somewhere between cooperating with and intimidating Muslim community leaders: Probes Test Trust That Authorities Strove to Win From U.S. Muslims (Washington Post) Further illustrating that only the people suffer from government issued sanctions: Black Market Shows Iran Can Adapt to Sanctions (NY Times) &#8220;The extraordinary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234","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\/2234","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/2236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}