{"id":824,"date":"2008-11-02T11:25:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=824"},"modified":"2008-11-02T11:25:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T16:25:33","slug":"news-and-analysis-111-208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (11\/1-2\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Political motivations undermine the global effort to thwart terrorist financing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/01\/AR2008110102214.html?hpid=topnews&#038;sid=ST2008110200737&#038;s_pos=\">Terrorism Financing Blacklists At Risk<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iraqis dismiss the idea a new US president will bring serious change to their lives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-iraqelect2-2008nov02,0,444096,full.story\">The U.S. Election, Viewed from Baghdad<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Facing the prospect of habeas corpus hearings, the government begins justifying Guantanamo cases narrower grounds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/01\/AR2008110102018.html\">Cases Against Detainees Have Thinned<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pakistan begins arming civilians in an effort curb Taliban influence:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/02\/world\/asia\/02pstan.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1&#038;ref=world\">As Taliban Overwhelm Police, Pakistanis Hit Back<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Spies admit to &#8220;gathering information on political party offices and monitoring the movements of party figures for this enemy&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/11\/200811113940697736.html\">Lebanon Detains &#8216;Israeli Spies&#8217;<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;With oil prices less than half what they were this summer, Iraqi and American officials are searching for new sources of money to jump-start Iraq\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s economy&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/02\/world\/middleeast\/02iraq.html?ref=world\">Iraq and U.S. Confer on Iraqi Economy<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; while the British PM offers the Saudis &#8220;a say in any future new world economic order&#8221; to secure contributions to the IMF bailout reserves:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomsphoenix.com\/Find-Freedom.htm?At=040649&#038;From=News\">Brown Expects Saudi Financial Help<\/a> (Freedoms Phoenix\/abcnews\/AP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political motivations undermine the global effort to thwart terrorist financing: Terrorism Financing Blacklists At Risk (Washington Post) Iraqis dismiss the idea a new US president will bring serious change to their lives: The U.S. Election, Viewed from Baghdad (LA Times) Facing the prospect of habeas corpus hearings, the government begins justifying Guantanamo cases narrower grounds: [&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-824","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\/824","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=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}