{"id":64,"date":"2006-08-31T10:55:42","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T15:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=64"},"modified":"2018-02-28T14:39:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:39:20","slug":"news-and-analysis-updates-83106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis Updates (8\/31\/06)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Will Africa become the new battleground between the US and Al Qaeda?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/08\/31\/AR2006083100322.html\">Experts Fear Africa Next Big Stage for Al Qaeda<\/a> (Reuters\/Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Olmert remembers the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153original excuse\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for invading Lebanon and demands the two soldiers taken hostage be returned in exchange for lifting blockading and troop withdraw:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-mideast31aug31,1,6465358.story\">Israel Pegs Its Pullout to Release of Captives<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Article about the increasing number of Muslim chaplains in the US military:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/chicago\/chi-0608310268aug31,1,5932662.story\">Gaining Acceptance in Service<\/a> (Chicago Tribune)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Germany reacts to failed terrorist attack as the memories of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153police state excesses of the Nazis and decades of snooping by the Stasi\u00e2\u20ac\u009d fade<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-0608310195aug31,1,7950500.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed\">Germany Awakens to Threat<\/a> (AP\/Chicago Tribune)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For Muslim in Britain drawing up a will may land them in jail under terrorism suspicions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-0608310209aug31,1,5918880.story\">Questions Raised over Some Terror Plot Charges <\/a>(Chicago Tribune)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On the nuclear issue, Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s president defends national sovereignty saying. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Iran will not back down an inch&#8230; and will not accept being deprived of its rights\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/5300292.stm\">Iran Defiant on Nuclear Deadline<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Africa become the new battleground between the US and Al Qaeda? Experts Fear Africa Next Big Stage for Al Qaeda (Reuters\/Washington Post) Olmert remembers the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153original excuse\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for invading Lebanon and demands the two soldiers taken hostage be returned in exchange for lifting blockading and troop withdraw: Israel Pegs Its Pullout to Release of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","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\/64","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18308,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/18308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}