{"id":708,"date":"2008-07-08T10:14:04","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T15:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=708"},"modified":"2008-07-08T10:14:03","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T15:14:03","slug":"news-and-analysis-7808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/8\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Afghan spokesman indicates close Indian-Afghan relations were the motive for alleged Pakistani assault\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 <\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/world\/international-afghan-india.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=print\">Afghanistan      Says Foreign Agents Behind Embassy Bomb<\/a> (New York Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and the one-year anniversary of the Red Mosque military raid leaves Pakistanis skeptical of the Musharraf government and US influence there\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/article\/20080707\/FOREIGN\/782739117\/1002\/NEWS\">Radicals      Gain Ground in Pakistan<\/a> (The National)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Despite coming from \u00e2\u20ac\u0153special interest\u00e2\u20ac\u009d countries, most illegal immigrants are just searching for a better life, US authorities admit:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/news\/print\/?id=242505\">East African      Countries Seen As Possible Terror Threat to US<\/a> (AP\/Wiredispatch)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Laws governing the eligibility of parties were not enforced, but the result is a plurality of interests in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Indonesia<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2008\/07\/08\/34-parties-make-cut-2009-polls.html\">34      Parties Make the Cut for 2009 Polls<\/a> (<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Jakarta<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">International dialogue aims to promote moderate Islam after the Kingdom itself has been hit by terrorist attacks:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0708\/p01s03-wome.html\">Saudi King Set      to Lead Rare Interfaith Talks in Spain<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Domestic workers from abroad are too often treated like slaves despite foreign laborers&#8217; rights being &#8220;protected under Islamic law:&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7495660.stm\"> Saudis Urged to Curb Maid Abuse<\/a> (BBC      News)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Egyptian police torture a young man for his Internet activism:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/features.csmonitor.com\/innovation\/2008\/07\/07\/politics-on-facebook-brings-trouble-for-young-egyptian\/\">Politics      on Facebook Brings Trouble for Young Egyptian<\/a> (Christian Science      Monitor)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghan spokesman indicates close Indian-Afghan relations were the motive for alleged Pakistani assault\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Afghanistan Says Foreign Agents Behind Embassy Bomb (New York Times) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and the one-year anniversary of the Red Mosque military raid leaves Pakistanis skeptical of the Musharraf government and US influence there\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Radicals Gain Ground in Pakistan (The National) Despite coming from [&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-708","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\/708","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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}