{"id":737,"date":"2008-08-05T10:57:17","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T15:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=737"},"modified":"2008-08-05T10:57:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T15:57:17","slug":"news-and-analysis-8508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (8\/5\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">With Iraqi Prime Minister\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent troop reductions comments still resonate, President Bush now agrees to a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153time horizon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for transitioning control to Iraqis: <\/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\/05\/AR2008080500929_pf.html\">Bush      Sees Common Ground With Maliki on Troop Reductions<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">East Asian Studies professor says China continues to vilify the East Turkestan Islamic Movement<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">, which doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have the resources for an attack even if it wanted to:<\/span><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.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/05\/world\/asia\/05china.html?pagewanted=print\">Ambush      in China Raises Concerns as Olympics Near<\/a> (New York Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">U.S.officials allege ne of Amnesty International\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153disappeared\u00e2\u20ac\u009d terror suspects used her MIT education to reach Al Qaeda inner circles:<\/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.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-siddiqui5-2008aug05,0,6290615,print.story\">Accused      Al Qaeda Sleeper Agent in Custody<\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">With informal deal deadline past, yesterday\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s phone call between Iran and six world powers was also \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not conclusive\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/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=280790\">WRAPUP 4-Iran Says It      Won&#8217;t Halt Nuclear Work, Talks to EU<\/a> (Reuters\/Wiredispatch)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Palestinian clan, tossed between two main factions, finds many of its members saved by Israelis and now interrogated:<\/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\/05mideast.html?pagewanted=print\">In      Gaza, a Blurry Line Between Enemies and Friends<\/a> (New York Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoBodyText\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Indian-Afghan friendship signaled by development aid and recent collaborative accusations against Pakistan have Pakistan on edge:<\/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=280308\">India Announces $450      Million Aid to Afghanistan<\/a> (Reuters\/Wiredispatch)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Landmark agreement that would expand Muslim homeland in a southern island is blocked by the Philippine Supreme Court over questions of constitutionality:<\/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\/0805\/p06s01-woap.html\">Philippines&#8217;      Peace Accord Blocked<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Muslims recognize the benefits of tourism and would like to make the most of Western knowledge as long as they can preserve their religion:<\/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\/7536985.stm\">East Meets West on      Island Paradise<\/a> (BBC News)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Iraqi Prime Minister\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s recent troop reductions comments still resonate, President Bush now agrees to a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153time horizon\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for transitioning control to Iraqis: Bush Sees Common Ground With Maliki on Troop Reductions (Washington Post) East Asian Studies professor says China continues to vilify the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, which doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have the resources for an [&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-737","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\/737","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=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}