{"id":274,"date":"2007-04-15T21:26:52","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T02:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=274"},"modified":"2007-04-15T21:29:46","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T02:29:46","slug":"news-and-analysis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=274","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/15\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With his soft spoken style, transparent style of governance and<br \/>\nsupport of the current President, Muslim politician Umaru Musa<br \/>\nYar&#8217;Adua is Nigeria&#8217;s current Presidential front-runner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0416\/p01s01-woaf.htm\">Nigeria&#8217;s Soft-Spoken Top Candidate<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alleged &#8220;dirty bomber&#8221; case highlights the moral and strategic limitations of Bush administration&#8217;s counter-terrorism tactics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0416\/p01s03-usju.htm\">US Antiterror Tactics Crimp New Terror Case<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Indonesia is an experiment in Muslim democracy, which if successful could have  ramifications for other parts of the world&#8221; \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Director of the International Crisis Group\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Jakarta office<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/15\/weekinreview\/15sims.html?ei=5087%0A&#038;em=&#038;en=4f227615e3bbaf24&#038;ex=1176782400&#038;pagewanted=print\">Indonesia: Gambling That Tolerance Will Trump Fear<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fears over Iran&#8217;s slowly ascending nuclear program have regional neighbors pursuing their own programs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/15\/world\/middleeast\/15sunnis.html?_r=1&#038;hp=&#038;pagewanted=print&#038;oref=slogin\">Eye on Iran, Rivals Pursuing Nuclear Power <\/a>(New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iraq caught between two suspicious spy agencies \u00e2\u20ac\u201c one funded by the<br \/>\nCIA, the other allegedly driven by a sectarian agenda:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-intel15apr15,0,3066724.story?coll=la-home-headlines\">Divided Iraq Has Two Spy Agencies<\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amid accusations of civil liberties abuses under its watch, Bush administration asks Congress for more surveillance authority and resists calls for safeguards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/13\/AR2007041301932.html\">Administration Seeks to Expand Surveillance Law<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his soft spoken style, transparent style of governance and support of the current President, Muslim politician Umaru Musa Yar&#8217;Adua is Nigeria&#8217;s current Presidential front-runner: Nigeria&#8217;s Soft-Spoken Top Candidate (Christian Science Monitor) Alleged &#8220;dirty bomber&#8221; case highlights the moral and strategic limitations of Bush administration&#8217;s counter-terrorism tactics: US Antiterror Tactics Crimp New Terror Case (Christian [&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-274","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\/274","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=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}