{"id":263,"date":"2007-04-04T10:41:12","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=263"},"modified":"2007-04-04T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T15:41:13","slug":"news-and-analysis-4407","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/4\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">American bi-partisan congressional delegation engages in diplomatic surge and meets with Syria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s President, Bashar Al-Assad:<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/04\/world\/middleeast\/04cnd-pelosi.html?_r=1&#038;hp=&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=print\"><font size=\"2\">Pelosi Meets With Syrian Leader<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Washington Post)<br \/>\n<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Two month body count by the Washington Post provides gloomy empirical indicator of Iraq\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dangerous security situation\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/03\/AR2007040301948.html?nav=hcmodule\"><font size=\"2\">Sum of Death Statistics: a Perilous Iraq<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Washington Post)<br \/>\n<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6which helps to explain the challenges US and Iraqi soldiers face when trying to recruit Sunnis in order to diversify the sectarian make up of the army:<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0404\/p01s01-woiq.htm\"><font size=\"2\">Iraq&#8217;s Army Seeks a Few Good Sunnis<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Christian Science Monitor)<br \/>\n<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Caught the middle of a sectarian battle between Zaydi Shi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122as on side and Wahhabis and the Yemeni state on the other, Yemeni Jews flee their village:<br 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\/>\n<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Son of Egyptian immigrants living in the American South uses his talent in country music to sing about \u00e2\u20ac\u0153unadulterated love, family and religion\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0404\/p20s01-almp.htm\"><font size=\"2\">Backstory: A Country-Western Muslim<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Christian Science Monitor)<br \/>\n<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Freed from the shackles of atheistic communism, Albanian Muslims and Christians witness a revival of faith:<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/03\/AR2007040301998_pf.html\"><font size=\"2\">Albanians Rediscover God, If Not Old-Time Religion<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Washington Post)<br \/>\n<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Guantanamo-style prisons outsourced not in Europe, but 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