{"id":692,"date":"2008-06-22T12:16:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T17:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=692"},"modified":"2008-06-22T12:16:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-22T17:16:16","slug":"news-and-analysis-621-2208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (6\/21-22\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denunciations by former militants and mainstream Islamists have Al-Qaeda on the defensive:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/asia\/special-report-is-al-qaida-in-p.htmls-850606.html\">Special Report: Is Al Qa&#8217;ida in Pieces?<\/a> (The Independent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Writer Becky Akers decries the invasiveness of new scanning technology that subjects people to a virtual strip search and does nothing to add to security:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/06\/20\/AR2008062002227_pf.html\">Get Ready to Strip At Reagan National<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Non-coercive interrogation nets a treasure trove information from alleged 9\/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/22\/washington\/22ksm.html?hp=&#038;pagewanted=print\">Inside a 9\/11 Mastermind\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Interrogation<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>300 political prisoners forgo food to protest being \u00e2\u20ac\u0153parts of mass trials and [getting] long sentences, even though there had been no evidence\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/21\/world\/africa\/21morocco.html?partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=all\">Hunger Strike by Hundreds of Islamists in Morocco Jails<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Opposition-led parliament seeks to reduce prisoners\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 sentences from death to life in jail and reduce others\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 terms by 3 months&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-bhutto22-2008jun22,0,3019410.story\">Pakistan Announces Plan to Clear Death Row to Commemorate Birthday of Slain Bhutto<\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;while residents in Swat anxiously await whether or not a peace deal can be struck and what it means for them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7465729.stm\">Can Pakistan Peace Deal Hold?<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite the likely court closure of the AK party, the expected ruling exposes the crumbling secular elite:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/22\/world\/europe\/22turkey.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=print\">In Turkey, Bitter Feud Has Roots in History<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denunciations by former militants and mainstream Islamists have Al-Qaeda on the defensive: Special Report: Is Al Qa&#8217;ida in Pieces? (The Independent) Writer Becky Akers decries the invasiveness of new scanning technology that subjects people to a virtual strip search and does nothing to add to security: Get Ready to Strip At Reagan National (Washington Post) [&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-692","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\/692","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=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}