{"id":810,"date":"2008-10-19T15:02:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T20:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=810"},"modified":"2008-10-19T15:02:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-19T20:02:22","slug":"news-and-analysis-101808-101908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=810","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/18\/08 &#8211; 10\/19\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Muslims in Xinjiang &#8220;live under an intricate series of laws and regulations intended to control the spread and practice of Islam&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/19\/world\/asia\/19xinjiang.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1&#038;ref=world\">Wary of Islam, China Tightens a Vise of Rules<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Protesters rally to prevent US-Iraq security pact&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-iraq19-2008oct19,0,222008.story\">Muqtada Sadr Urges Iraq Lawmakers to Reject U.S. Troop Deal<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; Meanwhile, US officials also challenge the terms of the security deal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/17\/AR2008101701419.html?sub=AR\">U.S., Iraqi Officials Question Terms of Draft Security Deal<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>U.S. says Iraqi captives confess to receiving Iranian training and using Iranian safehouses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/19\/world\/middleeast\/19intel.html?ref=world\">Documents Say Iran Aids Militias From Iraq<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Accusations of mistreatment spark clashes with police:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"DetailedTitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/europe\/2008\/10\/20081018193954128675.html\">Kurds Protest Over Ocalan &#8216;Assault&#8217;<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>General under fire after accusing Iraqi parliament members of taking Iranian bribes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-maliki18-2008oct18,0,477281.story\">Iraq&#8217;s Maliki Criticizes U.S. Commander&#8217;s Comments<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two new nuclear power plants to be made as an attempt to curb energy shortages:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/asia\/2008\/10\/2008101813171322788.html\">Pakistan to get Chinese Nuclear Aid<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Muslims in Xinjiang &#8220;live under an intricate series of laws and regulations intended to control the spread and practice of Islam&#8221;: Wary of Islam, China Tightens a Vise of Rules (NY Times) Protesters rally to prevent US-Iraq security pact&#8230; Muqtada Sadr Urges Iraq Lawmakers to Reject U.S. Troop Deal (LA Times) &#8230; Meanwhile, US [&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-810","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\/810","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=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}