{"id":238,"date":"2007-03-12T10:11:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T15:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=238"},"modified":"2007-03-12T10:15:08","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T15:15:08","slug":"news-and-analysis-31207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (3\/12\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Violent tragedy continues in Iraq as a Shia-majority village and Baghdad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s famous book market are left in ashes:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/11\/AR2007031100334_pf.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Insurgents Burn Homes in Shiite Area<\/font><\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/11\/AR2007031101518_pf.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">The Bookseller&#8217;s Story, Ending Much Too Soon<\/font><\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Counterterrorism officials, experts find profiling of one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s race and ethnicity is ineffective against Al-Qaida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s race-switching tactics:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/11\/AR2007031101618_pf.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Terrorists Proving Harder to Profile<\/font><\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=209\"><font color=\"#800080\">Breach of Law, Breach of Security \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Racial Profiling<\/font><\/a> (MFI)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Bush administration is not the only one removing legal professionals from their government posts based on political favoritism:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0312\/p06s01-wosc.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">Sacking of Pakistani Chief Justice Sparks Ire<\/font><\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bangladesh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mismanaged, misdirected anti-corruption drive leads to potential re-militarization of politics and ends up hurting the people it is meant help:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/6441179.stm\"><font color=\"#800080\">Many Targets of Anti-Corruption Drive<\/font><\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violent tragedy continues in Iraq as a Shia-majority village and Baghdad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s famous book market are left in ashes: Insurgents Burn Homes in Shiite Area (Washington Post) The Bookseller&#8217;s Story, Ending Much Too Soon (Washington Post) Counterterrorism officials, experts find profiling of one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s race and ethnicity is ineffective against Al-Qaida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s race-switching tactics: Terrorists Proving Harder to [&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-238","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\/238","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=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}