{"id":815,"date":"2008-10-23T11:05:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T16:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=815"},"modified":"2008-10-23T11:05:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T16:05:58","slug":"news-and-analysis-102308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=815","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/23\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mirroring the &#8220;Awakening&#8221; movement in Iraq:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/22\/AR2008102203708.html?hpid=topnews\">Pakistan Will Give Arms to Tribal Militias<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Refusal to release documents potentially proving claims of torture threatens damage to ties with Britain:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/22\/AR2008102203105.html?hpid=moreheadlines\">U.S. Pressed to Turn Over Detainee Papers<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Babil province becomes the 12th out of 18 provinces that Iraqi forces hold primary responsible for security:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTRE49M27920081023?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=topNews&#038;sp=true\">U.S. Hands &#8220;Triangle of Death&#8221; to Iraqi Troops<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Seemingly ineffective, Karzai faces an uphill battle for reelection in a year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/1023\/p06s01-wogn.html#\">Afghans to Karzai: You Failed Us<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The media called him &#8220;Jihad Jack,&#8221; but the court finds the Muslim convert&#8217;s interrogation was tainted by threats of execution and deportation to Guantanamo:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/23\/AR2008102300248.html\">Australian Innocent of Getting Al-Qaida Money<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A retired Lebanese general doubts the drug bust has any connection to the Shi`a militia:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/americas\/2008\/10\/200810235389394525.html\">Colombia Links Arrests to Hezbollah<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Serious dangers remain despite the overall drop in violence:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/24\/world\/middleeast\/24iraq.html?partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">Bomb Attack on Iraqi Official Kills 11<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Following suit of other Middle Eastern nations, Kuwait begins the slow process to improve relations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-iraq23-2008oct23,0,4420903.story\">Kuwait-Iraq Diplomacy Blooms Again, 17 Years After War<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirroring the &#8220;Awakening&#8221; movement in Iraq: Pakistan Will Give Arms to Tribal Militias (Washington Post) Refusal to release documents potentially proving claims of torture threatens damage to ties with Britain: U.S. Pressed to Turn Over Detainee Papers (Washington Post) Babil province becomes the 12th out of 18 provinces that Iraqi forces hold primary responsible for [&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-815","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\/815","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=815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}