{"id":809,"date":"2008-10-17T07:18:21","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T12:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=809"},"modified":"2008-10-17T15:59:30","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T20:59:30","slug":"news-and-analysis-10-17-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=809","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/17\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq struggles to manage the national budget and distribute funds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/16\/AR2008101603800.html?sid=ST2008101604037&#038;s_pos=\">As Iraq&#8217;s Oil Flows Freely, Profits Are Stuck in Bureaucracy<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former mayor says he will not negotiate with goverment as long as foreign troops occupy Afghanistan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/asia\/2008\/10\/200810173815406492.html\">Afghan Mayor Turns Taliban Leader<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Intolerance and Islamophobia continue to\u00c2\u00a0 rise in Europe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/16\/AR2008101602076.html\">Protest Mars Opening of First Mosque in East Germany<\/a> (Washington Post \/ Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite promises to curb civilian deaths, around 25 &#8211; 30 dead in yesterday&#8217;s airstrike:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/17\/world\/asia\/17afghan.html?ref=world\">Afghan Officials Say Airstrike Killed Civilians<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Palestinians remain deeply frustrated that a year of U.S.-backed peace negotiations has yielded no discernible changes in settlement growth&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-firebomb17-2008oct17,0,1500587.story\">Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian in West Bank<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Neighborhoods lay in ruins, families remain uncertain if they will ever return:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/baghdadbureau.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/16\/giving-up-on-going-home\/\">Giving Up On Going Home<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraq struggles to manage the national budget and distribute funds: As Iraq&#8217;s Oil Flows Freely, Profits Are Stuck in Bureaucracy (Washington Post) Former mayor says he will not negotiate with goverment as long as foreign troops occupy Afghanistan: Afghan Mayor Turns Taliban Leader (Al Jazeera) Intolerance and Islamophobia continue to\u00c2\u00a0 rise in Europe: Protest Mars [&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-809","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\/809","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=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}