{"id":681,"date":"2008-06-09T10:21:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T15:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=681"},"modified":"2008-06-09T10:21:37","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T15:21:37","slug":"news-and-analysis-6908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (6\/9\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The recent judicial decision to uphold the hijab ban, leads Turkey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speaker of parliament and Human Rights Watch to call for revising the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s constitution to enforce separation of powers and uphold human rights, respectively:<\/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\/06\/07\/AR2008060700711_pf.html\">Turkish      Speaker Seeks to Curtail Court&#8217;s Powers<\/a> (Reuters\/Washington Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei expresses his opposition to a pending US-Iraqi bilateral security agreement\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\/06\/09\/AR2008060900433_pf.html\">Iranian      Leader: US Military is Iraq&#8217;s Top Problem<\/a> (Associated Press\/Washington      Post)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6mean<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">while Baghdad seeks to keep a tight leash on any future troop presence by negotiating for US soldiers to stick to their barracks and private security guards to be subject to Iraqi law:<\/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.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/iraq\/article4092919.ece\">Treaty      Tensions Mount As Iraq Tells The US It Wants All Troops Back In Barracks<\/a>      (London Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Senate committee report on Iraq war intelligence fails to explore critical information sources within the Bush administration:<\/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\/06\/08\/AR2008060801819_pf.html\">Records      Could Shed Light on Iraq Group<\/a>       (Washington Post) <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Indonesia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s greater emphasis on law enforcement and nuanced approach toward Muslims net better anti-terror results than the militarized strategies in the Philippines and Pakistan:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/09\/world\/asia\/09terror.html?_r=1&#038;hp=&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=print\">Experts      See Gains Against Asian Terror Networks<\/a> (New York Times) <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-tribal8-2008jun08,0,4584243.story\">Militants&#8217;      Rise In Pakistan Points To Opportunity Lost<\/a> (Los Angeles Times) <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Legal counsel of Gitmo detainee Omar Khadr asserts military personnel destroyed important evidence that bars him from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153challenging the reliability of any alleged confessions\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/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\/06\/08\/AR2008060801890.html?hpid=moreheadlines\">Lawyer:      Gitmo Interrogators Told To Trash Notes<\/a> (Associated Press\/Washington      Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Political and security blowback from the Iraq invasion, the weakened US dollar and the opening of new Asian markets for crude oil corrode US-Saudi relations:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-ussaudi8-2008jun08,0,169219.story\">New      Forces Fraying U.S.-Saudi Oil Ties<\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent judicial decision to uphold the hijab ban, leads Turkey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s speaker of parliament and Human Rights Watch to call for revising the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s constitution to enforce separation of powers and uphold human rights, respectively: Turkish Speaker Seeks to Curtail Court&#8217;s Powers (Reuters\/Washington Post) Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei expresses his opposition to a pending [&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-681","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\/681","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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}