{"id":234,"date":"2007-03-07T13:19:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T18:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=234"},"modified":"2007-03-07T13:19:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T18:19:21","slug":"news-and-analysis-3707","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (3\/7\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is a mix of tradition and modernity, Western-style democracy meets Somali-style politics\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/07\/world\/africa\/07somaliland.html?ref=africa&#038;pagewanted=print\"><font size=\"2\">The Other Somalia: An Island of Stability in a Sea of Armed Chaos<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (New York Times)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Newly established \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcspecial\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 court system for Gitmo detainees operates with little transparency and deprives the defendants of a lawyer: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/06\/AR2007030602084.html\"><font size=\"2\">Hearings for 14 Guantanamo Detainees to Be Held in Secret, Officials Say<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Washington Post)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Congressional representative Keith Ellison uses his position to improve American public diplomacy and build bridges around the world: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realcities.com\/mld\/krwashington\/16845536.htm\"><font size=\"2\">First Muslim Elected to Congress Will Share his Story with the World<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (McClatchy Newspapers)<\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Syrian isolation may come to an end by hashing out deals negotiated with Saudi Arabia and Lebanon: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0307\/p07s02-wome.htm\"><font size=\"2\">Syria Seeks to Gain from Regional Tumult<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Christian Science Monitor)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It is a mix of tradition and modernity, Western-style democracy meets Somali-style politics\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The Other Somalia: An Island of Stability in a Sea of Armed Chaos (New York Times) Newly established \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcspecial\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 court system for Gitmo detainees operates with little transparency and deprives the defendants of a lawyer: Hearings for 14 Guantanamo Detainees to Be [&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-234","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\/234","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=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}