{"id":817,"date":"2008-10-26T11:10:05","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T16:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=817"},"modified":"2008-10-26T11:10:05","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T16:10:05","slug":"news-and-analysis-102508-102608","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/25\/08 &#8211; 10\/26\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli-linked non-profit that doesn&#8217;t disclose its donors or board members demonizes Muslims by distributing propaganda filmswith a pseudonymous producer and production manager:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/25\/AR2008102502092.html?hpid=topnews&#038;sid=ST2008102501857&#038;s_pos=\">Group Swamps Swing States With Movie on Radical Islam<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sunni group accuses US forces of killing senior party official &#8220;in his bed&#8221; and detaining five others:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSTRE49O1V020081025\">Iraqi Party Suspends Ties with U.S. Over Raid<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>General accused of inappropriately influencing the prosecution:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/25\/AR2008102502510.html\">Air Force Probes General For Actions at Guantanamo<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hezbollah claims that &#8220;it is the only force that can defend the country against Israel&#8221; while a TV comedy depicts Americans &#8220;handing out socks and toy airplanes to Lebanese generals:&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/26\/world\/middleeast\/26lebanon.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1&#038;ref=world\">U.S. Resupplies Lebanon Military to Stabilize Ally<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Nafie is viewed by many as one of the most influential and brutal security officials in Sudan&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-sudan26-2008oct26,0,3034326.story\">Hard-Line Sudan Politician May Hold Key to Darfur Conflict<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Flash floods destroy over 1700 homes and killed at least 65 people:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/10\/2008102665537762169.html\">More Deaths Feared in Yemen Floods<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli-linked non-profit that doesn&#8217;t disclose its donors or board members demonizes Muslims by distributing propaganda filmswith a pseudonymous producer and production manager: Group Swamps Swing States With Movie on Radical Islam (Washington Post) Sunni group accuses US forces of killing senior party official &#8220;in his bed&#8221; and detaining five others: Iraqi Party Suspends Ties [&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-817","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\/817","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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}