{"id":4132,"date":"2010-11-30T13:29:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T18:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=4132"},"modified":"2010-11-30T13:38:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T18:38:51","slug":"news-and-analysis-113010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=4132","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (11\/30\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5,000 &#8220;young Yemenis have so far volunteered to contribute to the country&#8217;s media campaign, two hundred of which will work with [Amr] Khaled and his U.K.-based organization to &#8230; confront extremism&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tucsonsentinel.com\/nationworld\/report\/113010_yemen_alqaeda\">Yemen: Islam&#8217;s Billy Graham Takes On Al-Qaida<\/a> (Tuscon Sentinel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We have a choice. Peace, nonintervention, and low government expenditures? Or perpetual war and out-of-control government? Knowing the legal consequences of his brave action, Bradley Manning made an apparently difficult choice. For us, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a hard choice at all&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Opinion\/2010\/1129\/WikiLeaks-Bradley-Manning-isn-t-a-criminal.-He-s-a-hero\">Wikileaks: Bradley Manning Isn&#8217;t A Criminal. He&#8217;s A Hero<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; yet Israel,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/140889\" target=\"_blank\"> miraculously spared evidence of any hypocrisy between public and private positions <\/a>apparent with <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/indepth\/opinion\/2010\/11\/20101129223858642223.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Arab<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/11\/29\/AR2010112902481.html\" target=\"_blank\">other states<\/a> in the leaked material, draws an opposite conclusion calling for an <a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/articles\/133459\/\" target=\"_blank\">attack on Iran<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Defense\/Article.aspx?id=197131\">Analysis: Wikileaks Vindicate, Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Damage, Israel<\/a> (Jerusalem Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; although it is the West that has turned its back on Iran&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2010\/05\/2010516204621125495.html\">agreement &#8220;to exchange its low-enriched uranium<\/a> in Turkey for nuclear fuel processed abroad&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2010\/11\/2010113010818699441.html\">Iran Agrees To Fresh Nuclear Talks<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The FBI sought to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=4135\" target=\"_blank\">avoid suspicion of entrapment<\/a> in its sting operation against Mohamed Mohamud:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/11\/30\/AR2010113000398.html\">Always Tweaking Its Script, FBI Sting Nets Another<\/a> (AP \/ Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Human rights groups echo the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s allegations that &#8220;its lawmakers may be almost entirely swept out of parliament by what it said was rampant rigging, intimidation and vote-buying&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/international\/africa\/view.bg?articleid=1299856&amp;srvc=rss\">Opposition Says Egypt Election Results \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcInvalid\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a> (AP \/ Boston Herald)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5,000 &#8220;young Yemenis have so far volunteered to contribute to the country&#8217;s media campaign, two hundred of which will work with [Amr] Khaled and his U.K.-based organization to &#8230; confront extremism&#8221;: Yemen: Islam&#8217;s Billy Graham Takes On Al-Qaida (Tuscon Sentinel) &#8220;We have a choice. Peace, nonintervention, and low government expenditures? 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