{"id":287,"date":"2007-04-29T13:31:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T18:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=287"},"modified":"2007-04-29T13:31:53","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T18:31:53","slug":"news-and-analysis-42907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/29\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While an independent film powerfully\u00c2\u00a0highlights the death of an innocent Afghan to raise questions about the US\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 use of indefinite\u00c2\u00a0detention and torture, 82 inmates at Guantanamo are cleared of charged, but still detained and the US-backed Ethiopian government continues to indefinitely detain American-Muslim:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/26\/AR2007042601569_pf.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Down a Dark Road<\/font><\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/28\/AR2007042801145_pf.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">82 Inmates Cleared but Still Held at Guantanamo<\/font><\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/28\/AR2007042801141_pf.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Ethiopia Continues to Hold U.S. Man, Frustrating Family<\/font><\/a> (Associated Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not falling in line with Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Middle East policies and objectives as much as in the past, some administration officials are wondering whether reliance on Prince Bandar \u00e2\u20ac\u0153has begun to outlive its usefulness\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/29\/washington\/29saudi.html?_r=1&#038;hp=&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=print\"><font color=\"#800080\">A Saudi Prince Tied to Bush Is Sounding Off-Key<\/font><\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In spite of assurances that Turkey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Islamic-oriented party that the party will remain faithful to the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s secular principles, secular opposition groups and armed forces stage rally and issue stern statements:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/6604643.stm\"><font color=\"#800080\">Huge Rally for Turkish Secularism<\/font><\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fingerprinted 14 times, body searched 9 times, handcuffed 4 times and put in isolated detention at least 13 times, the case of Abe Dabdoub highlights the racial\/religious bias of American security checks and the lack of legal redress:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theledger.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20070429\/ZNYT02\/704290506\"><font color=\"#800080\">Borders Spell Trouble for Arab-American<\/font><\/a> (New York Times\/The Ledger)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While an independent film powerfully\u00c2\u00a0highlights the death of an innocent Afghan to raise questions about the US\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 use of indefinite\u00c2\u00a0detention and torture, 82 inmates at Guantanamo are cleared of charged, but still detained and the US-backed Ethiopian government continues to indefinitely detain American-Muslim: Down a Dark Road (Washington Post) 82 Inmates Cleared but Still Held [&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-287","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\/287","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=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}