{"id":266,"date":"2007-04-06T15:27:29","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T20:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=266"},"modified":"2007-04-06T15:27:29","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T20:27:29","slug":"news-and-analysis-4607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/6\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Middle East expert Juan Cole provides his excellent news round-up on developments in Iraq, as well as his analysis of the release of the British sailors from Iranian capture: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2007\/04\/70-killed-in-iraq-diplomacy-of-iran-may.html\">70 Killed in Iraq, Diplomacy of Iran May be Legacy of British Sailor Hostage Crisis<\/a> (Informed Comment)<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6while other experts see the political drama of the 15 British sailors as a demonstration of Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sophisticated ability to flex its diplomatic muscles: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0406\/p01s01-wome.htm\">Might Iran Deal on Nukes, Too?<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Washington Post columnist Dan Froomkin gives his analysis of the bi-partisan congressional delegation in the Middle East and Vice-President Cheney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdelusions\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 about Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaida: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/blog\/2007\/04\/06\/BL2007040601116_pf.html\">Cheney Sticks to His Delusions<\/a> (Washington Post)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Trial of 50 Moroccan Islamist militants may be evidence of Al-Qaida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s extended reach into North Africa: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0406\/p06s01-woaf.htm\">Is Al Qaeda&#8217;s Influence Spreading to Morocco?<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not here to fight the Taliban\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re here to make them irrelevant.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Dutch commander, Col. Hans van Griensven <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/06\/world\/asia\/06afghan.html?pagewanted=print\">Dutch Soldiers Stress Restraint in Afghanistan<\/a> (New York Times)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Heavy-handed tactics by government and Ethiopian forces kill scores of civilians and lead to complaints and investigations by local human rights groups and European diplomats: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/06\/world\/africa\/06somalia.html?ref=world&#038;pagewanted=print\">Somali Battles Bring Charges of War Crimes<\/a> (New York Times)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">&#8220;US threats against Iran are no longer regarded by the Iranians and Syrians as just saber-rattling, and it&#8217;s only natural that they prepare themselves,&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Amal Saad-Ghorayeb <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0406\/p01s04-wome.htm\">Syria, Hizbullah, Iran Prepare in Case of War<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Two-day conference in Indonesia stressing sectarian reconciliation and Muslim unity in Iraq and around the world concludes:<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica\"><font size=\"3\"> <\/font><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica\"><font size=\"3\" \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><font size=\"3\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thejakartapost.com\/detailheadlines.asp?fileid=20070405.A07&#038;irec=6\">Clerics End Bogor Meet with Pledge of Unity<\/a> (The Jakarta Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle East expert Juan Cole provides his excellent news round-up on developments in Iraq, as well as his analysis of the release of the British sailors from Iranian capture: 70 Killed in Iraq, Diplomacy of Iran May be Legacy of British Sailor Hostage Crisis (Informed Comment) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6while other experts see the political drama of the [&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-266","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\/266","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=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}