{"id":262,"date":"2007-04-03T10:12:04","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T15:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=262"},"modified":"2007-04-03T10:12:05","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T15:12:05","slug":"news-and-analysis-4307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/3\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Bush administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stance against Iran fails with the capture of the 15 British soldiers and strengthens its hardliner counterparts in Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <\/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.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-backfire3apr03,0,2879434,print.story?coll=la-default-underdog\"><font size=\"2\">U.S. Strategy on Iran May Have Backfired<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (LA Times)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/feature\/2007\/04\/03\/iran\/print.html\"><font size=\"2\">Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Hostage Crisis<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Salon.com)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6yet the administration persists<\/font><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">\u00e2\u20ac\u201c<\/font><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">even at the risk of threatening UK\u00e2\u20ac\u201cIranian negotiations to release the sailors: <\/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.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20070402.wiran02\/BNStory\/International\/home\"><font size=\"2\">Washington Hurting British Bid to Free Crew<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Toronto Globe and Mail)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Caught between Sadr\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s orders for restraint, daily indiscriminate attacks by Sunni militants and alleged enticements from Iranian agents, members of the Mahdi Army defect and reinsert themselves into the sectarian carnage: <\/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.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-militia3apr03,1,5526138,full.story?coll=la-headlines-world\"><font size=\"2\">Cracks in Sadr&#8217;s Army<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (LA Times)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">US-Iraqi plans for reconciliation and Sunni entry into the government workforce hit a major snag as Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani opposes reform of the De-Baathification law: <\/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\/04\/03\/world\/middleeast\/03iraq.html?pagewanted=print\"><font size=\"2\">Shiite Cleric Opposes U.S. Plan to Permit Former Baath Party Members to Join Government<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (New York Times)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Niger uranium matter was not uppermost in the minds of the CIA analysts. Some of them had to deal with the issue in any case, largely because Cheney, his aide Libby and some aides at the National Security Council had repeatedly demanded more information and more analysis.\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.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/02\/AR2007040201777_pf.html\"><font size=\"2\">How Bogus Letter Became a Case for War<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Washington Post)<\/font><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">  <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Five years after 9\/11, diminished security and pervasive abuses of authority powers, civil liberties advocates begin waging a legal counteroffensive: <\/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\/0403\/p02s01-ussc.htm\"><font size=\"2\">Privacy Advocates Fight for Ground Lost After 9\/11<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bush administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stance against Iran fails with the capture of the 15 British soldiers and strengthens its hardliner counterparts in Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 U.S. Strategy on Iran May Have Backfired (LA Times) Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Hostage Crisis (Salon.com) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6yet the administration persists\u00e2\u20ac\u201ceven at the risk of threatening UK\u00e2\u20ac\u201cIranian negotiations to release the sailors: Washington Hurting British Bid 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-262","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\/262","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=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}