{"id":4709,"date":"2011-05-18T13:45:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T18:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=4709"},"modified":"2011-05-18T13:45:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T18:45:10","slug":"news-and-analysis-51811","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=4709","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/18\/11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furious anti-American protesters poured into the streets of a city in northern <a id=\"PLGEO00000021\" title=\"Afghanistan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/intl\/afghanistan-PLGEO00000021.topic\">Afghanistan<\/a> on Wednesday, shouting out objections to an overnight U.S.-led military raid that killed four people, including two women.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-afghanistan-violence-20110519,0,956647.story\">25 Killed in Afghanistan Protest, Car Bombing<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"articleText\">In &#8220;a familiar twist, last-minute snags appeared  to be holding up the deal that would grant Saleh immunity from  prosecution, allowing him a dignified exit from power&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/05\/18\/us-yemen-deal-idUSTRE74H26N20110518?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29\">Yemen Political Deal Agreed in Principle<\/a> (Reuters)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With an American as supreme allied commander in Libya, if Obama continues spending over 3\/4 billion dollars there without renewed Congressional authorization, &#8220;history will say that the War Powers Act was  condemned to a quiet death by a president who had solemnly pledged, on  the campaign trail, to put an end to indiscriminate warmaking&#8217;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/death-of-the-war-powers-act\/2011\/05\/17\/AF3Jh35G_story.html\">Death of the War Powers Act? <\/a>(Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Najla Hariri, the only known woman to regularly the streets of a Saudi  city, attributes her inspiration to flaunt social convention against women drivers to the &#8220;Arab  spring&#8221; and denies that any Saudi law prohibits female drivers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-13431562\">Saudi Woman Seeks to Put Women in the Driving Seat<\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking anonymously three top Egyptian generals say the revolution &#8220;was about the succession of power, Gamal Mubarak, and a lack of social  equity \u00e2\u20ac\u201d  the erosion of a major part of the middle class&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"Egyptian generals speak about revolution, elections\">Egyptian Generals Speak About Revolution, Elections<\/a> (Washington Post with Foreign Policy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As <a title=\"Syrian president says security services made mistakes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-13444174\" target=\"_blank\">al-Assaad admits to &#8220;mistakes&#8221; and promises to train 4,000 troops to prevent their repetition<\/a>, Clinton threatens <a title=\"Syria: US 'to impose sanctions on President Assad'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-13444179\" target=\"_blank\">more sanctions<\/a> to be announced during Obama&#8217;s forthcoming Middle East policy speech:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/05\/18\/136279980\/arab-world-offers-obama-rhetorical-tightrope\">Arab World Offers Obama Rhetorical Tightrope<\/a> (NPR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The judge &#8220;excused one woman after she admitted being afraid of serving on a terror  trial jury. Another man was excused&#8221; who &#8220;had  written on his questionnaire, &#8216;Terrorists are manly Muslims, or am I  wrong?'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/jury-selection-continues-in-terror-trial-of-chicago-businessman-accused-in-08-mumbai-attacks\/2011\/05\/17\/AFTknV5G_story.html\">Jurors Who Express Terror Fears, Anti-Muslim Bias Excused from Chicago Trial in Mumbai Attacks<\/a> (AP \/ Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The journalist detained by Syria for traveling on an expired Iranian passport is now free in Qatar:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-13435954\">Al-Jazeera: Dorothy Parvaz Free After Syria Detention<\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Pakistani news report identifies bin Ladin intimate Saif al-Adel  &#8220;as having been chosen as &#8216;interim leader&#8217; of al-Qaida after a meeting  at &#8216;an undisclosed location'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/may\/18\/al-qaida-succession-battle-saif-al-adel-acting-leader\">Al-Qaida in the Midst of Fierce Succession Battle<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"_mcePaste\" class=\"mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; left: -10000px; top: 91px; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden;\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-13444179<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furious anti-American protesters poured into the streets of a city in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, shouting out objections to an overnight U.S.-led military raid that killed four people, including two women. 25 Killed in Afghanistan Protest, Car Bombing (LA Times) In &#8220;a familiar twist, last-minute snags appeared to be holding up the deal that would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4709","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\/4709","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4712,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4709\/revisions\/4712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}