{"id":705,"date":"2008-07-04T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T17:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=705"},"modified":"2008-07-04T15:19:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T20:19:19","slug":"news-and-analysis-7408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=705","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/4\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta http-equiv=\"CONTENT-TYPE\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Religious leaders voluntarily back away as Iraqi government moves to separate mosque and state in provincial elections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-iraq4-2008jul04,0,3512774,print.story\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Iraq Seeks Ban on Religious Imagery in Elections<\/span><\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Government investigates alleged army takeover plot by ultra-nationalist group of former military officers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/article\/20080702\/NEWS\/369703710\/1013\/NEWS\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Turkish General calls for Calm<\/span><\/a> (The National)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Government-appointed religious official in Saudi Arabia counters militant ideology following the discovery of plots against oil and security stations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"color: #333333\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/news\/print\/?id=238176\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Saudi Cleric Warns Saudis to Shun Militants<\/span><\/a> (Reuters\/Wiredispatch)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Nigerian woman voluntarily confesses to singing traditional music is sentenced to two months in prison or a $42 fine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/printable\/200807020554.html\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Sharia Court Jails Female Singer for Staging Musical Concert<\/span><\/a> (Daily Trust\/All Africa)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Plans to phase out Guantanamo include returning suspected terrorists to their countries of origin for detainment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/07\/03\/AR2008070303825_pf.html\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Debate Over Guantanamo&#8217;s Fate Intensifies<\/span><\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With a history of refusing to halt uranium enrichment, Iran will answer today to an incentives offer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/world\/international-iran-nuclear-powers.html?ref=world&#038;pagewanted=print\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Iran Nuclear Deal Response Expected<\/span><\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Police raids result in the capturing of nine involved in network responsible for massive attacks in Southeast Asia:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"color: black\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2008\/07\/04\/south-sumatra-terrorist-suspects-linked-noordin.html\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">South Sumatra Terrorist Suspects Linked to Noordin<\/span><\/a> (The Jakarta Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Continued violence and declining security strain Afghanistan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s food-producing areas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: black\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/02\/world\/asia\/02afghan.html?ref=worldspecial&#038;pagewanted=print\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">U.N. Warns of Food and Security Crises in Afghanistan<\/span><\/a> (New York Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious leaders voluntarily back away as Iraqi government moves to separate mosque and state in provincial elections: Iraq Seeks Ban on Religious Imagery in Elections (Los Angeles Times) Government investigates alleged army takeover plot by ultra-nationalist group of former military officers: Turkish General calls for Calm (The National) Government-appointed religious official in Saudi Arabia counters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-705","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\/705","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}