{"id":648,"date":"2008-05-01T11:59:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T16:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=648"},"modified":"2008-05-01T11:59:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T16:59:15","slug":"news-and-analysis-5108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/1\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Civil libertarians and security experts criticize plans for a massive surveillance ring in DC as expensive, invasive and ineffective:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/30\/AR2008043003430.html?hpid=sec-tech\">D.C. Forging Surveillance Network<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sponsored by the Danish government, a team of former Israeli and Palestinian officials jump start an economically driven peace plan to remove the largest 2% of all checkpoints in the West Bank:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7375290.stm\">New Plan for W Bank Checkpoints<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Female Saudi historian Hatoon Al-Fassi finds sexist interpretations of Islam originate from later integration of Greco-Roman culture, not early Arab-Islamic traditions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/30\/AR2008043003289_pf.html\">Saudi Scholar Finds Ancient Women&#8217;s Rights<\/a> (Reuters\/Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Academics and religious leaders slam Western and Arab media outlets for blowing Sunni-Shi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122a disputes out of proportion and having an excessive focus on extremists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0501\/p01s03-wome.htm\">Is the Sunni-Shiite Rift Mostly Politics and Media Hype?<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pakistani opposition leaders agree to reinstate deposed judges through a parliamentary motion, and will debate broader reform packages in separate talks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7376654.stm\">&#8216;Deal Reached&#8217; on Pakistan Judges<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After many misses and civilians killed, US airstrikes finally take out Somalia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top Al-Qaeda operative, but tribal elders says this will lead to more fighting\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/02\/world\/africa\/02somalia.html?_r=1&#038;hp=&#038;pagewanted=print\">Qaeda Agent in Somalia Killed in U.S. Attack<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6meanwhile Saudi Arabia thwarts another <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=638\">Al-Qaeda attempt to attack the global economy<\/a> by arresting 172 alleged militants suspected of bombing oil installations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/28\/world\/middleeast\/28saudi.html?fta=y\">Saudis Round Up 172, Citing Plot Against Oil Rigs<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil libertarians and security experts criticize plans for a massive surveillance ring in DC as expensive, invasive and ineffective: D.C. Forging Surveillance Network (Washington Post) Sponsored by the Danish government, a team of former Israeli and Palestinian officials jump start an economically driven peace plan to remove the largest 2% of all checkpoints in the [&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-648","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\/648","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=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}