{"id":826,"date":"2008-11-04T11:41:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T16:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=826"},"modified":"2008-11-04T11:41:18","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T16:41:18","slug":"news-and-analysis-11408-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=826","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (11\/4\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The looming impeachment of an Iranian cabinet member sparks acts of bribery and a fist-fight:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/03\/AR2008110301757.html?hpid=moreheadlines\">Scandal, Fistfight Erupt Over Impeachment Move in Iran<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite lobbying for larger quotas, only six seats reserved for minorities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-iraq4-2008nov04,0,2841262.story\">Iraqi Lawmakers OK Provincial Council Quotas for Minorities<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Circumstantial evidence indicates a local Afghan police chief and another district leader aided the Taliban:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/04\/world\/asia\/04military.html?pagewanted=1&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">Afghan Officials Aided an Attack on U.S. Soldiers<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Profits from dairy farming leave many hopeful for successful agriculture in Afghanistan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/1104\/p01s01-wosc.html\">Afghans Find Modest Prosperity in Once-Banned Trade \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Milk<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"DetaildSuammary\" id=\"Htmlphcontrol1\">Tareq al-Hashemi, o<\/span><span class=\"DetaildSuammary\" id=\"Htmlphcontrol1\">ne of <\/span>Iraq&#8217;s vice-presidents calls for nationwide <span class=\"DetaildSuammary\" id=\"Htmlphcontrol1\">referendum to decide the fate of the pact <\/span>allowing US soldiers to remain:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/11\/2008114105325397812.html\">Poll Proposed for Iraq-US Pact<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Targeting more than the Muslim Brotherhood, restrictions underline the &#8220;epidemic social, economic and political illnesses of the country&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2008\/nov\/03\/egypt-humanrights\">Egypt Fails on Free Speech<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Backing off from its detente with North Korea, US officials accuse a North Korean state airline jet was carrying sophisticated technology such as ballistic missile parts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/03\/AR2008110302683.html\">U.S. Efforts Divert Iran-Bound Cargo<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The looming impeachment of an Iranian cabinet member sparks acts of bribery and a fist-fight: Scandal, Fistfight Erupt Over Impeachment Move in Iran (Washington Post) Despite lobbying for larger quotas, only six seats reserved for minorities: Iraqi Lawmakers OK Provincial Council Quotas for Minorities (LA Times) Circumstantial evidence indicates a local Afghan police chief and [&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-826","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\/826","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=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}