{"id":688,"date":"2008-06-17T09:33:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T14:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=688"},"modified":"2008-06-17T09:33:22","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T14:33:22","slug":"news-and-analysis-61708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=688","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (6\/17\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Insecurity and economic crisis in Yemen open the door for foreign-influenced religious vigilantes to impose their values on other Muslims:<\/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\/16\/AR2008061602362_pf.html\">Stalking      Yemen&#8217;s Streets: Self-Appointed Morals Police<\/a> (Washington Post) <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Middle East expert Karl E. Meyer suggests America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s current proposed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153security\u00e2\u20ac\u009d negotiations with Iraq walks along the same imperialist path of 1930s Britain:<\/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\/17\/opinion\/17meyer.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=print\">Another      Bad Deal for Baghdad<\/a> (New York Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Islamabad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attempts at striking a peace deal fall through after Taliban militants allege government forces have not met their demands:<\/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\/south_asia\/7459184.stm\">Pakistan      Militants &#8216;Suspend&#8217; Deal<\/a> (BBC News)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Javaid Iqbal\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s case before the Supreme Court could open the door for people to seek recompense for ham-fisted post 9\/11anti-terror tactics\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.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0617\/p02s01-usju.htm\">New Legal Fight      Over U.S. Antiterror Tactics<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6OC Register editorial supports the recent Supreme Court decision citing the need to maintain separation of powers:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/guantanamo-court-habeas-2066849-government-corpus\">Editorial:      A Liberty-Friendly Decision on Detainees<\/a> (Orange County Register)<span class=\"manchettebig2\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Mauritanian state uses \u00e2\u20ac\u0153defamation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d charges to crack down on independent press:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"grostitre\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsf.org\/print.php3?id_article=27498\">Libel Charge Brought      Against Publisher of Arabic-Language Weekly<\/a> (Reporters Without      Borders)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">International Crisis Group warns that an influx of hard-line religious groups makes Papua state in Indonesia a tinderbox:<\/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\/17\/fundamentalism-threatens-papua-icg.html\">Fundamentalism      Threatens Papua: ICG<\/a> (The Jakarta Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Former CIA case officer Philip Giraldi argues recognizing Iran as a rational state actor and pursuing diplomacy is better than military confrontation to advance American interests:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/orig\/giraldi.php?articleid=12998\">Remaking      The Middle East: A New Approach<\/a><span class=\"columntexthead\">      (Antiwar.com)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insecurity and economic crisis in Yemen open the door for foreign-influenced religious vigilantes to impose their values on other Muslims: Stalking Yemen&#8217;s Streets: Self-Appointed Morals Police (Washington Post) Middle East expert Karl E. Meyer suggests America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s current proposed \u00e2\u20ac\u0153security\u00e2\u20ac\u009d negotiations with Iraq walks along the same imperialist path of 1930s Britain: Another Bad Deal for [&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-688","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\/688","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=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}