{"id":657,"date":"2008-05-11T09:28:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T14:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=657"},"modified":"2008-05-12T09:30:41","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T14:30:41","slug":"news-and-analysis-510-1108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/10-11\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gitmo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parallel legal system comes under attack again after a military judge disqualifies a top Pentagon lawyer from further participation in the process due to pushing prosecutors \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to use evidence under coercive interrogations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/11\/washington\/11gitmo.html?partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=all\">Judge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo Ruling Bodes Ill for System<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whistleblowers reveal a memo showing Scott Bloch, head of the Office of Special Counsel, inverting the agency\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mission by retaliating against people for political purposes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/10\/AR2008051002257_pf.html\">Memo Shows Frustration With Special Counsel<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tensions in Lebanon remain high as fighting continues in other parts of the country despite Hezbollah withdrawal from West Beirut:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/11\/AR2008051100339.html\">Clashes in Northern and Eastern Lebanon, Outside Beirut<\/a> (Associated Press\/Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/11\/AR2008051100272_pf.html\">Lebanon Troops Patrol Beirut After Hezbollah Pullout<\/a> (Reuters\/Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sudan ends its relations with Chad after accusing it of training militants involved in a failed attack on Khartoum:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/world\/AP-Sudan.html?_r=1&#038;hp&#038;oref=slogin\">Sudan Cuts Chad Ties After Attack<\/a> (Associated Press\/New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pakistan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153little Switzerland\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sees a reprieve from violence as local Taliban militants sign a truce and agree to enter into peace talks\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7393492.stm\">Pakistani Militants Agree Truce<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6meanwhile talks among coalition parties on judge restoration remain deadlocked:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thenews.jang.com.pk\/top_story_detail.asp?Id=14594\">Talks On Judges Go Up In Smoke<\/a> (The News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gitmo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parallel legal system comes under attack again after a military judge disqualifies a top Pentagon lawyer from further participation in the process due to pushing prosecutors \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to use evidence under coercive interrogations\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: Judge\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo Ruling Bodes Ill for System (New York Times) Whistleblowers reveal a memo showing Scott Bloch, head of the Office of [&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-657","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\/657","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=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}