{"id":805,"date":"2008-10-13T11:16:35","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T16:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=805"},"modified":"2008-10-13T11:16:35","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T16:16:35","slug":"news-and-analysis-10-13-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=805","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10-13-08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 4,100 troops are no longer needed &#8220;in the south of the country&#8221; &#8211;  Nuri al-Maliki<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/10\/200810137421946789.html\">Iraqi PM: UK forces &#8216;not needed&#8217;<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iraqi government orders additional protection for Christians experiencing recent increase in persecution:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/12\/AR2008101200586.html?sid=ST2008101202369&#038;s_pos=\">Security Boosted Around Mosul<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iranian government implimentation of a 3% value-added tax meets heavy criticism:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-iran13-2008oct13,0,947490.story\">Iranian Merchants Resist New Tax, Accounting Measures<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sewage running directly into river destroys the fishing industry:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/12\/AR2008101201872.html\">The Tigris, Abandoned by Fish<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In &#8220;a move analysts saw as a bid to boost his standing ahead of the country&#8217;s presidential election in 2009&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSTRE49C4OD20081013?sp=true\">Iran Ex-President Hosts Prominent Western Figures<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Supporters promise to boycott elections unless charges against political leaders are removed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/asia\/2008\/10\/20081012211441671190.html\">Bangladesh Leaders&#8217; Release Urged<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approximately 4,100 troops are no longer needed &#8220;in the south of the country&#8221; &#8211; Nuri al-Maliki Iraqi PM: UK forces &#8216;not needed&#8217; (Al Jazeera) Iraqi government orders additional protection for Christians experiencing recent increase in persecution: Security Boosted Around Mosul (Washington Post) Iranian government implimentation of a 3% value-added tax meets heavy criticism: Iranian Merchants [&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-805","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\/805","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=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}