{"id":821,"date":"2008-10-29T10:47:51","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T15:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=821"},"modified":"2008-10-29T10:47:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T15:47:51","slug":"news-and-analysis-102908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/29\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only five provinces remain in US control:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/10\/200810297554547761.html\">US hands back province to Iraqis<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Without dialogue, we cannot have any sort of conclusion,&#8221; &#8211; Owais Ghani,\u00c2\u00a0 governor of the North-West Frontier Province<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/28\/AR2008102801834.html\">Afghans, Pakistanis Opt to Talk to Taliban<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The falling price of oil increases pressure on Arab markets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/29\/world\/middleeast\/29mideast.html?ref=world\">Slowdown in Persian Gulf Reverberates in Middle East<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Women&#8217;s rights advocate remains detained by Iranian authorities with no formal charges made:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-esha29-2008oct29,0,783190,full.story\">Arrested American Woman Felt the Tug of Iran<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Commanders request 20,000 additional troops for the still undeclared war:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/28\/AR2008102803856.html?hpid=moreheadlines\">Support Sought In Afghan Mission<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Refusing to back down from the Israeli government, ship arriving from Cyprus brings much needed medical supplies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"DetailedTitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/10\/2008102963653662767.html\">Aid Boat Defies Gaza Blockade<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only five provinces remain in US control: US hands back province to Iraqis (Al Jazeera) &#8220;Without dialogue, we cannot have any sort of conclusion,&#8221; &#8211; Owais Ghani,\u00c2\u00a0 governor of the North-West Frontier Province Afghans, Pakistanis Opt to Talk to Taliban (Washington Post) The falling price of oil increases pressure on Arab markets: Slowdown in Persian [&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-821","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\/821","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=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}