{"id":806,"date":"2008-10-14T11:03:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T16:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=806"},"modified":"2008-10-14T14:14:03","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T19:14:03","slug":"news-and-analysis-101408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=806","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/14\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poor translating, yet another injustice perpetrated by the US Defense Department:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/13\/AR2008101302419.html\">Lawyers Criticize Quality of Guantanamo Interpreters<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After being assaulted by Jewish youth Tawfiq Jamal is detained for &#8220;<span class=\"DetaildSuammary\" id=\"Span1\">disrupting the sanctity of Yom Kippur, when most Israelis observe a religious ban on driving<\/span>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"DetailedTitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/10\/20081014103751830353.html\">Arab Driver Held After Acre Riots<\/a>                 (Al Jazeera)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Turkey remains a unique battleground between secularism and Islam:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/14\/world\/europe\/14turkey.html?pagewanted=1&#038;ref=world\">Youthful Voice Stirs Challenge to Secular Turks <\/a>(NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Current production is by no means meeting demand for the reconstruction of the country,&#8221; &#8211; Hussein al-Shahristani, Iraq&#8217;s oil minister<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/13\/AR2008101302418.html?sid=ST2008101302913&#038;s_pos=\">Iraq Opens Bidding on Oil Field Contracts<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stability remains uncertain amongst economic downturn, a growing insurgency and a relatively new government:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-pakeconomy14-2008oct14,0,1049923.story\">Pakistanis Worry They&#8217;re at Risk in Global Crisis<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Analysis indicate Iran would look favorably on US request to open an interest section:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/13\/AR2008101302531.html\">U.S. Proposal Yet to Reach Iran<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poor translating, yet another injustice perpetrated by the US Defense Department: Lawyers Criticize Quality of Guantanamo Interpreters (Washington Post) After being assaulted by Jewish youth Tawfiq Jamal is detained for &#8220;disrupting the sanctity of Yom Kippur, when most Israelis observe a religious ban on driving&#8220;: Arab Driver Held After Acre Riots (Al Jazeera) Turkey remains [&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-806","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\/806","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=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}