{"id":784,"date":"2008-09-24T11:25:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T16:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=784"},"modified":"2008-09-24T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T16:25:16","slug":"news-and-analysis-92408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (9\/24\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diverse group calls for change in failed US anti-terrorism policy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/24\/washington\/24muslim.html?adxnnl=1&#038;ref=world&#038;adxnnlx=1222265237-\/uRxRDQ67Ah\/ht6csZNMzA\">Report Seeks Engagement With Muslims by Diplomacy<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Incursions continue even as Bush says he &#8220;wants to help&#8221; protect Pakistani sovereignty:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSTRE48N41G20080924?sp=true\">&#8220;U.S. drone&#8221; Crashes in Pakistan<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tax-exempt organization accused of illegal electioneering in targeting swing-state voters with inflammatory propaganda:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/09\/23\/AR2008092302865.html\">Muslim Group Seeks Probe of &#8216;Radical Islam&#8217; DVD<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After months of debate, election deadline set at January 1, 2009:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"DetailedTitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/09\/2008924114015678527.html\">Iraq Passes Provincial Election Law<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Critics of the Trade Minister say lower level officials are scapegoats:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/24\/world\/middleeast\/24iraq.html?_r=1&#038;ref=world&#038;oref=slogin\">Iraqi Trade Officials Ousted in Corruption Sweep<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ahmadinejad accuses the U.S. of forging documents given to the IAEA, while protesters demand he not be allowed to speak:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/la-fg-iran23-2008sep23,0,1812871.story?page=2&#038;track=rss\">Iran President Blames Wall Street Turmoil on U.S. &#8216;Military Engagement&#8217;<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/09\/23\/AR2008092303429.html\">At U.N., Protesters Target Iran On Rights: Jailed Doctors&#8217; Case Is a Major Concern<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Diverse group calls for change in failed US anti-terrorism policy: Report Seeks Engagement With Muslims by Diplomacy (NY Times) Incursions continue even as Bush says he &#8220;wants to help&#8221; protect Pakistani sovereignty: &#8220;U.S. drone&#8221; Crashes in Pakistan (Reuters) Tax-exempt organization accused of illegal electioneering in targeting swing-state voters with inflammatory propaganda: Muslim Group Seeks Probe [&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-784","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\/784","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=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}