{"id":814,"date":"2008-10-22T10:55:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T15:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=814"},"modified":"2008-10-22T10:55:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T15:55:59","slug":"news-and-analysis-102208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=814","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/22\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guantanamo detainees remain held as &#8220;enemy combatants&#8221; despite not facing any charges:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/21\/AR2008102100873.html\">Charges Against 5 Detainees Dropped Temporarily<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Forces attack Afghan allies in a case of &#8220;mistaken identity&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/23\/world\/asia\/23afghan.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;oref=slogin\">Airstrike Kills 9 Afghan Troops<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran, Qatar and Russia, who control 60% of natural gas reserves, have agreed to form an OPEC-like organization:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/business\/2008\/10\/2008102113531344749.html\">Gas-Rich Nations Agree &#8216;Forum&#8217;<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Internal disputes and proxy fighting rages on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/21\/AR2008102102644.html\">Lebanese City&#8217;s Strife Reflects 2 Conflicts<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Between 60,000 and 100,000 children in this state of 5.5 million people are thought to be orphans:&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/1022\/p06s02-wogn.html\">Fighting in Kashmir Gives Rise to Orphanages<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Symbolic stand taken against Israeli settlers by Prime Minister who claims their actions are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nothing short of terrorism\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSTRE49L42C20081022?sp=true\">Palestinians Won&#8217;t be Driven Off, Says Fayyad<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guantanamo detainees remain held as &#8220;enemy combatants&#8221; despite not facing any charges: Charges Against 5 Detainees Dropped Temporarily (Washington Post) Forces attack Afghan allies in a case of &#8220;mistaken identity&#8221;: Airstrike Kills 9 Afghan Troops (NY Times) Iran, Qatar and Russia, who control 60% of natural gas reserves, have agreed to form an OPEC-like organization: [&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-814","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\/814","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=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}