{"id":689,"date":"2008-06-18T10:32:42","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T15:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=689"},"modified":"2008-06-18T10:32:41","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T15:32:41","slug":"news-and-analysis-61808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (6\/18\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">The Department of Defense with the advice of the CIA pursued torture techniques that violate the law\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\/17\/AR2008061702862_pf.html\">CIA      Played Larger Role In Advising Pentagon<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6immorally inflict severe physical and psychological damage\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\/18\/AR2008061800336_pf.html\">Report:      Exams Prove Abuse, Torture In Iraq, Gitmo<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and act as a recruiting tool on behalf of Al-Qaeda:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/259\/v-print\/story\/38779.html\">Militants      Found Recruits Among Guantanamo&#8217;s Wrongly Detained<\/a> (McClatchy)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Though Hamas and Israel have at least temporarily suspended fighting\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"articleheadline\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/2008-06-18-voa18.cfm\">Israel-Hamas      Ceasefire to Begin on Thursday<\/a> (Voice of America)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6Tel Aviv\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s continuing collective punishment of Gazan Palestinians strengthens black market transactions and suffocates chances for a long-term peace:<\/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\/17\/AR2008061702818_pf.html\">As      Israeli Siege Strangles Gaza Strip, Hamas, Smugglers Profit Off Tunnels<\/a>      (Washington Post)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Explosion reveals fragility of gains made by the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153surge\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and perversity of US officials&#8217; attempt to\u00c2\u00a0 blame Shiite extremists for an al-Qaeda-style bombing in the &#8220;<\/span>heavily Shiite Huriya district<span style=\"font-family: Arial\">:<\/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\/18\/world\/middleeast\/18iraq.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=print\">At      Least 51 Are Killed in Blast at Baghdad Market<\/a> (New York Times) <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Controversy from Turkish diva\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s anti-war stance highlights continued military stranglehold over the right to free speech:<\/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\/europe\/7460649.stm\">Turkish Singer Tried      Over Dissent<\/a> (BBC News)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Somalis affected by conflict encounter challenges to survival while trying to obtain work in the Gulf:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"marrontitulobig\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/africa\/nota.asp?idnews=42842\">Dire Situation      for Internally Displaced <\/a><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"> (Inter Press Service)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Indonesian government begins cleaning house after public outcry over bribery scandal within Attorney General\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office:<\/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\/18\/ago-begins-investigation-top-prosecutors.html\">AGO      Begins Investigation of Top Prosecutors<\/a> (The Jakarta Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Defense with the advice of the CIA pursued torture techniques that violate the law\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 CIA Played Larger Role In Advising Pentagon (Washington Post) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6immorally inflict severe physical and psychological damage\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Report: Exams Prove Abuse, Torture In Iraq, Gitmo (Washington Post) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6and act as a recruiting tool on behalf of Al-Qaeda: Militants Found [&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-689","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\/689","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=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}