{"id":2739,"date":"2010-02-08T11:44:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2010-02-08T11:44:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:44:45","slug":"news-and-analysis-282010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=2739","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (2\/8\/2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move designed to cripple the Brotherhood&#8217;s leadership ahead of Parliamentary elections, ten officials are arrested over five provinces overnight:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/08\/AR2010020800670.html\">Egypt Arrests 3 Top Muslim Brotherhood Leaders<\/a> (AP \/ Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Afghan president says his people&#8217;s priority is &#8220;ending raids at night on Afghan homes, &#8230; ending the arrests of Afghans in their homes and their villages,&#8221; and &#8220;gaining judicial independence completely and rather very very soon&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/asia\/2010\/02\/20102814629840690.html\">Karzai Demands End to Nato Raids<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Terrorism experts say the group has adjusted its tactics to incorporate smaller scale attacks that are increasingly difficult to prevent:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/02\/07\/AR2010020702984.html\">Al-Qaeda is a Wounded but Dangerous Enemy<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An offensive to take down the Taliban Stronghold in Marja is being used as a litmus test illustrating how difficult it will be to train Afghan troops to be self sufficient&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation-and-world\/la-fg-afghan-army7-2010feb07,0,6823905.story\">Afghan Force Faces Crucial Test in Marja<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; Meanwhile, pressure mounts for reconciliation negotiations with Taliban:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/feb\/07\/taliban-peace-ainsworth-karzai\">Don&#8217;t Wait for Victory to Start Talking to the Taliban, Ainsworth Tells Nato<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf\u00ef\u00bb\u00bf\u00ef\u00bb\u00bfConfirming Ahmadinejad&#8217;s intentions of enriching uranium as nuclear negotiations move forward:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/09\/world\/middleeast\/09iran.html?ref=world\">Iran to Tell U.N. Agency of Nuclear Enrichment Plans<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move designed to cripple the Brotherhood&#8217;s leadership ahead of Parliamentary elections, ten officials are arrested over five provinces overnight: Egypt Arrests 3 Top Muslim Brotherhood Leaders (AP \/ Washington Post) The Afghan president says his people&#8217;s priority is &#8220;ending raids at night on Afghan homes, &#8230; ending the arrests of Afghans in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alejandros-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}