{"id":269,"date":"2007-04-10T11:04:31","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T16:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=269"},"modified":"2007-04-10T11:15:45","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T16:15:45","slug":"news-and-analysis-41007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=269","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/10\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Faced with the realities of a growing young and restless population, the Saudi government makes minimal concession by relaxing some of the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ultra-conservative social laws: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0410\/p01s03-wome.htm\"><font size=\"2\">Wave of Saudi Youths Challenge Kingdom&#8217;s Conservative Sway<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Christian Science Monitor) <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">The story of a joint Afghan-Dutch patrol\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s firefight with Taliban units demonstrates the challenges to achieving security in Afghanistan: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/10\/world\/asia\/10afghan.html?_r=1&#038;hp=&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=print\"><font size=\"2\">An Ambush in the Taliban Heartland<\/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\u0153Concerned by the disappearance of Christians in the land of Christianity&#8217;s birthplace, [Rep. Chris] Smith could also become (as I did) concerned by the plight of all Palestinians. If so, he will find precious little company in Congress.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Robert Novak <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/08\/AR2007040800924_pf.html\"><font size=\"2\">Worse Than Apartheid?<\/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\">An action junkie reporter working for the LA Times as its Iraq bureau chief recalls the necessary steps he took to get his story and come out alive at the same time: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Symbol\"><span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/la-fg-fouryears10apr10,0,1239856,print.story\"><font size=\"2\">Reporter Recalls the Layers of Truth Told in Iraq<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (LA Times) <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Four Serbian paramilitary men are given jail sentences for their involvement in the killing of captured Bosnian Muslims: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Symbol\"><span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/6540645.stm\"><font size=\"2\">Jail for Serb Video Death Squad<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (BBC News) <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Reports of over \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc1,000 dead\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in Mogadishu, point toward Somalia as a failed state \u00e2\u20ac\u201c again:\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/font><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6540609.stm\">Mogadishu Clashes &#8216;Killed 1,000&#8217;<\/a> (BBC News)\u00c2\u00a0\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/09\/AR2007040901103_pf.html\">Somalia Crumbles, Again<\/a> (Washington Post)\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"> <\/span><\/li>\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Conflicts in Darfur continue, expanding into Chad and the Central African Republic: <\/font><\/span>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Symbol\"><span style=\"font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6539273.stm\"><font size=\"2\">Chad Army &#8216;Attacked Sudan Forces&#8217;<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (BBC News)<\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with the realities of a growing young and restless population, the Saudi government makes minimal concession by relaxing some of the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ultra-conservative social laws: Wave of Saudi Youths Challenge Kingdom&#8217;s Conservative Sway (Christian Science Monitor) The story of a joint Afghan-Dutch patrol\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s firefight with Taliban units demonstrates the challenges to achieving security in [&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-269","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\/269","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=269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}