{"id":643,"date":"2008-04-25T16:25:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T21:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=643"},"modified":"2008-04-25T16:25:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T21:25:04","slug":"news-and-analysis-42508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=643","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/25\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Israeli combatants blow the whistle on army abuses of its occupation in the Palestinian Territories; meanwhile, based on a letter \u00e2\u20ac\u0153personally delivered to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, Tel Aviv claims they had a secret nod from Bush to continue its settlement expansion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0425\/p07s03-wome.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">Israeli Ex-Soldiers Expose Abuse of Palestinians<\/font><\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/23\/AR2008042303128_pf.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Israelis Claim Secret Agreement With U.S.<\/font><\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US takes meager steps toward reconciliation by releasing 200 of tens of thousands of prisoners it has detained in Iraq:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&#038;article=54303\"><font color=\"#800080\">U.S. Continues Iraq Reconciliation Effort by Releasing Nearly 200 More Detainees<\/font><\/a> (Stars and Stripes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US photos of Israeli-bombed Syrian facility have experts unconvinced it was part of a secret nuclear weapons program:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-ussyria25apr25,1,5918118.story\"><font color=\"#800080\">U.S. Offers Evidence of North Korea-Syria Nuclear Plant<\/font><\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"EN\" \/>Federal security agencies jettison clumsy terminology to describe Al-Qaeda terrorists after hearing recommendations from American Muslims:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-Jihad-Lingo.html?_r=1&#038;sq=Muslim&#038;st=nyt&#038;oref=slogin&#038;scp=7&#038;pagewanted=printhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-Jihad-Lingo.html?_r=1&#038;sq=Muslim&#038;st=nyt&#038;oref=slogin&#038;scp=7&#038;pagewanted=print\">&#8216;Jihadist&#8217; Booted from Government Lexicon<\/a> (Associated Press\/New York Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-Jihad-Lingo-Dos-Donts.html?scp=9&#038;sq=Muslim&#038;st=nythttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/us\/AP-Jihad-Lingo-Dos-Donts.html?scp=9&#038;sq=Muslim&#038;st=nyt\">Terms to Use and Avoid When Talking About Terrorism<\/a> (Associated Press\/New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a discussion with a Federal judge, Bush administration lawyer Anthony Coppolino refused to state whether Congress has the authority to limit the President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s power in terrorism and espionage cases:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/04\/24\/MNAI10AKM0.DTL\"><font color=\"#800080\">Bush Lawyer Tangles with Judge Over Wiretaps<\/font><\/a> (San Francisco Chronicle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Israeli combatants blow the whistle on army abuses of its occupation in the Palestinian Territories; meanwhile, based on a letter \u00e2\u20ac\u0153personally delivered to then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, Tel Aviv claims they had a secret nod from Bush to continue its settlement expansion: Israeli Ex-Soldiers Expose Abuse of Palestinians (Christian Science Monitor) Israelis Claim [&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-643","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\/643","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=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}