{"id":843,"date":"2008-11-21T12:02:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T17:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=843"},"modified":"2008-11-21T12:10:47","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T17:10:47","slug":"news-and-analysis-112108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (11\/21\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A judge who previously ruled against the detainees releases five and describes the government&#8217;s evidence as &#8220;skimpy&#8221; while questioning credibility of the government&#8217;s sources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/20\/AR2008112001714.html?sid=ST2008112001884&#038;s_pos=\">5 at Guantanamo Ordered Released<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/20\/AR2008112003005.html\">Wrenching Choices on Guantanamo<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In order to secure maritime trade in the Red Sea, &#8220;the international community must search for stability and economic and political development          in Somalia&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/1121\/p99s01-wome.html\">Arab Countries Meet to Tackle Somali Pirate Threat<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;illustrating the complexity of such a task, militants take a break from overthrowing the government and seek to capture the abducted Saudi ship:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSLL19551020081121?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=topNews&#038;sp=true\">Islamists on Trail of Somali Pirates<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a symbolic move, protesters &#8220;hanged an effigy of President Bush from the plinth that once supported the statue of Saddam Hussein&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/22\/world\/middleeast\/22iraq.html?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">Protests in Baghdad on U.S. Pact<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An issue largely ignored by the Bush administration, the importance of resolving the issue of Kashmir is acknowledged by Obama:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/1121\/p01s01-wosc.html\">Is Kashmir Key to Afghan Peace?<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gaza continues to suffer with 27 of the 47 bakeries closed, blackouts of up to 20 hours, and the suspension of welfare for 98,000 Gazans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-gaza21-2008nov21,0,4556575.story\">Israel Rebuffs U.N. Plea to Ease Gaza Blockade<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The goal is to prepare a generation that has deep religious faith and is also close to Hezbollah\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/21\/world\/middleeast\/21lebanon.html?pagewanted=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">Hezbollah Seeks to Marshal the Piety of the Young<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A judge who previously ruled against the detainees releases five and describes the government&#8217;s evidence as &#8220;skimpy&#8221; while questioning credibility of the government&#8217;s sources: 5 at Guantanamo Ordered Released (Washington Post) Wrenching Choices on Guantanamo (Washington Post) In order to secure maritime trade in the Red Sea, &#8220;the international community must search for stability 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-843","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\/843","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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}