{"id":683,"date":"2008-06-11T10:30:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=683"},"modified":"2008-06-11T10:30:11","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T15:30:11","slug":"news-and-analysis-61108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (6\/11\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Former CIA operative Phil Giraldi investigates how along with American big brother, Tel Aviv\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s massive penetration of security agencies also has them listening on people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conservations:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"head2\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amconmag.com\/2008\/2008_06_02\/cover.html\">The Spy Who Loves Us<\/a>      (The American Conservative)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">In additional to the usual controversy over torture and coerced confessions, criticism of the Gitmo military tribunal process picks up further steam after new revelations find military interrogators allegedly destroyed potentially exonerating evidence:<\/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\/nation\/la-na-tribunal11-2008jun11,0,6976891.story\">Guantanamo      Criticism Intensifies<\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Hardliners within some Taliban units seek to scuttle peace talks and continue attacks against Pakistani forces\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:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/149B71BB-4450-4C64-BBB4-41B7050ED369.htm\">Doubts      Cloud Pakistan Taliban Truce<\/a> (Al-Jazeera International)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6meanwhile US incompetence helps do the Taliban\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dirty work for it, killing 11 Pakistani soldiers and 9 Afghan civilians in two separate incidents:<\/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\/11\/AR2008061100719.html?hpid=topnews\">Pakistan      Blames U.S. Coalition for Troops&#8217; Deaths<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Members of PM Maliki\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own political party add themselves to growing chorus of parties opposed to an extended troop presence in Iraq:<\/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-security11-2008jun11,0,7769083.story\">Iraq      Officials Question Need for U.S. Troop Presence<\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Human Rights groups call for the government to rescind its recent decree banning the Ahmadiyah, viewing it as state-sanctioned violence against the heterodox minority group:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2008\/06\/11\/ahmadiyah-decree-seen-legalizing-violence.html\">Ahmadiyah      Decree Seen as Legalizing Violence<\/a> (The Jakarta Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Libya seeks to expand its private sector by signing a memorandum of understanding with the African Development Bank:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/200806090737.html\">AfDB and Libyan      Investment Agency Sign MOU on Joint Financing<\/a> (AllAfrica.com\/African      Development Bank)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Fierce debates rage in London over whether police forces should have the power to detain accused terrorists for up to 42-days without charges:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/7447477.stm\">Brown Under      Fire Over 42-Day Plan<\/a> (BBC News)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former CIA operative Phil Giraldi investigates how along with American big brother, Tel Aviv\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s massive penetration of security agencies also has them listening on people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conservations: The Spy Who Loves Us (The American Conservative) In additional to the usual controversy over torture and coerced confessions, criticism of the Gitmo military tribunal process picks up further [&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-683","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\/683","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=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}