{"id":736,"date":"2008-08-04T10:19:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T15:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=736"},"modified":"2008-08-04T10:19:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-04T15:19:23","slug":"news-and-analysis-8408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (8\/4\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Olympics-related security hype has given China momentum to conduct raids on Uighur Muslims, and now <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">police arrest assailants without explaining their motives or affiliations<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">: <\/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:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/03\/AR2008080302160_pf.html\">Truck,      Grenade Attack in China Kills 16 Policemen<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">As the threat of sanctions looms following a missed nuke-deal deadline, Iran warns of its ability to close critical Persian Gulf waterway:<\/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\/2008\/08\/05\/world\/middleeast\/05iran.html?hp=&#038;pagewanted=print\">Iran      Escalates Military Rhetoric in Nuclear Face-Off<\/a> (New York Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Wounded Palestinians receive medical treatment on the condition that they become informants:<\/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:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7540125.stm\">Ill Palestinians      &#8216;Asked to Spy&#8217;<\/a> (BBC News)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Reevaluating counternarcotics strategy in Afghanistan, Canada considers de-incentivizing opium production at the processing and shipment levels:<\/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:\/\/canadianpress.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5h5VCX8Aq5GrcYbewNtdn5l3ziooA\">Burning      Poppy Crops Not the Solution to Afghanistan&#8217;s Poppy Crisis: Emerson<\/a> (Canadian      Press)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Seven Baha\u00e2\u20ac\u2122i Iranians reportedly confess to establishing an illegal institution aimed at undermining the Islamic government:<\/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=279558\">Iran Accuses Arrested      Baha&#8217;is of Israel Links-Report<\/a> (Reuters\/Wiredispatch)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">A police raid called for by the US fails to capture man in charge of 1998 embassy bombings, but instead arrests his relatives accused of harboring him:<\/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:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7540414.stm\">Kenya Manhunt for      al-Qaeda Wanted<\/a> (BBC News)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">A Turkish show manages to connect with Saudis where Western shows can&#8217;t, inspiring tourism, independent women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s roles, as well as a cleric\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s objections:<\/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.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/02\/AR2008080201547_pf.html\">A      Subversive Soap Roils Saudi Arabia<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; 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