{"id":243,"date":"2007-03-16T14:00:40","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T19:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=243"},"modified":"2007-03-16T14:09:23","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T19:09:23","slug":"mfi-news-and-analysis-31607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (3\/16\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In light of the rambling nature of his statements, and the views of some that he is prone to exaggerate his importance, we cannot feel confident we know exactly the level of his involvement in various prior attacks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Joshua Dressler <\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/worldlatest\/story\/0,,-6484074,00.htmlhttp:\/www.guardian.co.uk\/worldlatest\/story\/0,,-6484074,00.html\">Officials: Mohammed Exaggerated Claims<\/a> (Associated Press)<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">While House of Representatives Appropriations Committee passed a measure calling for the withdrawal of American soldiers by next year at the latest, a similar Senate resolution fails: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2007\/03\/16\/Worldandnation\/House_panel_backs_Ira.shtml\"><font color=\"#800080\">House Panel Backs Iraq Exit<\/font><\/a> (St. Petersburg Times) <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">U.N. Security Council tightens economic noose around Iran, banning all weapons exports and freezing the financial assets of prominent Iranian officials: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/15\/AR2007031500248.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">6 Powers Agree on Sanctions for Iran<\/font><\/a> (Washington Post) <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">New unity government formed by Palestinians is rejected by Israel: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/03\/15\/AR2007031501978.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Unity Cabinet Offered By Palestinian Premier<\/font><\/a> (Washington Post)<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In light of the rambling nature of his statements, and the views of some that he is prone to exaggerate his importance, we cannot feel confident we know exactly the level of his involvement in various prior attacks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Joshua Dressler Officials: Mohammed Exaggerated Claims (Associated Press) While House of Representatives Appropriations Committee passed a [&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-243","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\/243","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=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}