{"id":764,"date":"2008-09-05T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T17:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=764"},"modified":"2008-09-05T13:37:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T18:37:38","slug":"news-and-anaylsis-952008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=764","title":{"rendered":"News and Anaylsis (9\/5\/2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Woodward reveals that &#8220;&#8216;groundbreaking&#8217; new covert techniques&#8221; rather than the surge are responsible for the victories against al-Qaeda in Iraq &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/09\/04\/AR2008090403160.html?nav=hcmodule\">U.S. Spied on Iraqi Leaders, Book Says<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; but military concerns suggest that there may be no improvement in stability by any account:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/iraq\/complete\/la-na-troops5-2008sep05,0,5083304.story\">Gen. Petraeus recommends delay in Iraq troop cuts<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Without confirming their involvement, the US military bombed Pakistani for the third time in as many days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7599787.stm\">US bomb &#8216;kills five in Pakistan&#8217; <\/a>(BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US military risks a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/cryfromthegrave\/massacre\/massacre.html\">Srebrenica-style massacre<\/a> with Iranian exiles<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSL566718520080905?sp=true\">Lawyers fear massacre if Iranians in Iraq handed over<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Afghans outraged at the civilian death toll, over 500 since the beginning of the year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSSP33806020080905\">U.S. says 2 civilians among 8 dead in Afghan strike<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Woodward reveals that &#8220;&#8216;groundbreaking&#8217; new covert techniques&#8221; rather than the surge are responsible for the victories against al-Qaeda in Iraq &#8230; U.S. Spied on Iraqi Leaders, Book Says (Washington Post) &#8230; but military concerns suggest that there may be no improvement in stability by any account: Gen. Petraeus recommends delay in Iraq troop cuts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-764","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\/764","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}