{"id":833,"date":"2008-11-10T11:22:54","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T16:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=833"},"modified":"2008-11-10T11:22:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T16:22:54","slug":"news-and-analysis-111008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=833","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (11\/10\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently declassified document authorized nearly a dozen raids around the world:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/10\/washington\/10military.html?pagewanted=1&#038;hp\">Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Tension-creating&#8217; foreign policy has &#8216;scared off foreign investment and inflicted heavy damage&#8217; on the economy&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-iran10-2008nov10,0,1799465.story\">Iran Economists Denounce Ahmadinejad&#8217;s Policies<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ballot includes a man on trial for arms trafficking and money laundering, a millionaire planing to build thousands of Jewish homes in an Arab neighborhood, and an ultra-Orthodox rabbi who won&#8217;t put his picture on his campaign posters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/09\/AR2008110902156.html\">Jerusalem&#8217;s Mayoral Race Reflects the City&#8217;s Troubled Times<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once heralded as the militant protector of the Shi&#8217;ite majority, Sadr seeks to reorganize into a socio-religious group:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-sadr10-2008nov10,0,1733929.story\">In Iraq, Muqtada Sadr&#8217;s Followers Struggle for Relevance<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Peace process delayed as Fatah and Hamas continue to blame one another:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/11\/2008118135236624628.html\">Hamas-Fatah Talks Postponed<\/a> (AL Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Bush administration all but admits failure in their attempt to bring peace to the Middle East:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/1110\/p06s02-wome.html\">Secretary Rice Fights Peace-Process Inertia<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shortages in electricity plague Gaza as the break in the truce agreement cut supplies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/11\/200811106451709782.html\">Fuel-Starved Gaza Faces Blackouts<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently declassified document authorized nearly a dozen raids around the world: Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries (NY Times) &#8220;&#8216;Tension-creating&#8217; foreign policy has &#8216;scared off foreign investment and inflicted heavy damage&#8217; on the economy&#8221;: Iran Economists Denounce Ahmadinejad&#8217;s Policies (LA Times) The ballot includes a man on trial for arms trafficking [&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-833","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\/833","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=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}