{"id":660,"date":"2008-05-14T10:17:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T15:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=660"},"modified":"2008-05-14T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T15:20:28","slug":"news-and-analysis-51408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/14\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">As charges are dropped against alleged \u00e2\u20ac\u015320<sup>th<\/sup> hijacker\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mohammed al-Qahtani due to flawed evidence based on torture\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/13\/AR2008051302785_pf.html\">Charges      Against 9\/11 Suspect Dropped<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6commentators say the cases of al-Qahtani and suicide bomber Abdullah al-Ajmi show Gitmo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s torture regime is immoral, ineffective and counterproductive: <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/blogs\/attytood\/20th_hijacker_blows_up_torture_argument.html\">&#8220;20th      Hijacker&#8221; Blows Up Torture Argument<\/a> (Philadelphia Daily News)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/may\/13\/guantanamo.humanrights\">The      Survivors&#8217; Stories Leave No Doubt: Guant\u00c3\u00a1namo Makes Us All Less Safe<\/a>      (The Guardian)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">US officials spin Iranian involvement in Iraqi peace deal as an attempt to stop arming militias, despite a <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/babylonbeyond\/2008\/05\/iraq-the-elusiv.html\">lack of evidence<\/a> showing Tehran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s complicity:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0514\/p01s04-wome.htm\">Iran Shifts      Attention To Brokering Peace In Iraq<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Pakistan forces withdraw from area where nationalist militants fight for political autonomy and control over their own economic resources\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/13\/AR2008051302785_pf.html\">Troops      &#8216;Pull Out of Balochistan&#8217;<\/a> (BBC News)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6meanwhile Asif Zardari gets cleared of another corruption case the day after his suspicious footdragging over judge restoration leads to a split in Pakistan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coalition government:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/news\/?id=166048\">Bhutto&#8217;s      Husband Cleared of Smuggling Artifacts<\/a> (Associated Press\/Wiredispatch)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As charges are dropped against alleged \u00e2\u20ac\u015320th hijacker\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mohammed al-Qahtani due to flawed evidence based on torture\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Charges Against 9\/11 Suspect Dropped (Washington Post) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6commentators say the cases of al-Qahtani and suicide bomber Abdullah al-Ajmi show Gitmo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s torture regime is immoral, ineffective and counterproductive: &#8220;20th Hijacker&#8221; Blows Up Torture Argument (Philadelphia Daily News) The Survivors&#8217; [&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-660","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\/660","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=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}