{"id":822,"date":"2008-10-30T11:24:18","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T16:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=822"},"modified":"2008-10-30T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-30T16:28:39","slug":"news-and-analysis-103008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/30\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With provincial elections scheduled in January, Iraqi politicians remain committed to specific demands which help ensure Iraqi sovereignty:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/29\/AR2008102902279.html\">Senior Iraqi Leader Says Pact With U.S. Is Unlikely to Pass<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t object to filters in school, libraries, or public places, but it&#8217;s a problem to decide what is suitable for an entire population in a democracy&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/1030\/p06s01-wome.html\">Turkey Tightens Controls on Internet Speech<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Virtually all &#8220;military-aged men&#8221; are subjected to a biometric screening when entering from Iran:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/29\/AR2008102904038.html?hpid=topnews\">U.S. Takes Battle Against Iraq Violence to Border<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Conceding that IMF funds financially harm nations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSTRE49T2X020081030?sp=true\">Pakistan has no Alternative to Taking IMF Money: Adviser<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tens of thousands rally at the US embassy in a government-orchestrated protest:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/world\/AP-ML-Syria-US.html?_r=1&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;oref=slogin\">Large Syrian Protest Against U.S. Raid<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>17 were freed in an act of goodwill for the upcoming Palestinian unity talks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTRE49T4AR20081030?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=topNews\">Hamas carries out prisoner release in Gaza<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSTRE49T4AR20081030?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=topNews\"><\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With provincial elections scheduled in January, Iraqi politicians remain committed to specific demands which help ensure Iraqi sovereignty: Senior Iraqi Leader Says Pact With U.S. Is Unlikely to Pass (Washington Post) &#8220;We don&#8217;t object to filters in school, libraries, or public places, but it&#8217;s a problem to decide what is suitable for an entire population [&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-822","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\/822","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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}