{"id":850,"date":"2008-11-30T13:29:21","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T18:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=850"},"modified":"2008-11-30T13:29:22","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T18:29:22","slug":"news-and-analysis-1129-3008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (11\/29-30\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What began as a clash between two political parties over a disputed election turned into Christian-Muslim conflict:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5h2vb4Yp45er-OvYstMN6nZAxdOpwD94PC7SG4\">Calm Returns to Nigerian City After Deadly Clashes<\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The White House policy that &#8220;if a country cannot deal with a terrorism problem on its own, the United States reserves the right to act unilaterally&#8221; may make India deaf to pleas for restraint against Pakistan&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/30\/world\/asia\/30diplo.html?_r=1&#038;ref=world\">Attacks Imperil Delicate U.S. Role Between Rivals<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and Pakistan withdraws its previous offer to send it&#8217;s spy chief, claiming Pakistani was &#8220;&#8216;already bending over backwards&#8217; to be cooperative and did not &#8216;want to create more opportunities for Pakistan-bashing'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/28\/AR2008112802823.html?sid=ST2008112900881&#038;s_pos=\">Pakistani Militants At Center Of Probe<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still well below the 100,000 average of refugees admitted during the 1990s,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-me-iraqi29-2008nov29,0,473840.story\">Number of Iraqi Refugees Admitted to U.S. Up Sharply <\/a>(LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hamas takes out its anger over its rival, the Palestinian Authority, which coordinated the pilgrimages, on the pilgrims:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/29\/AR2008112901850.html\">Hamas Prevents Muslim Pilgrims from Leaving Gaza<\/a> (AP \/ Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The weekend clashes will raise fears of a return to the regular bloodshed that plagued the city in the 1990s&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSTRE4AT13Q20081130\">Rivals Clash in Pakistan&#8217;s Karachi, 13 Dead<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maj. Gen. John Kelly, the top Marine in Iraq, states that troops could be largely withdrawn without harming the process of making Anbar self-sufficient:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-marines29-2008nov29,0,6552627.story\">In Iraq, U.S. Seeks Common Ground Between Feuding National and Regional Leaders<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What began as a clash between two political parties over a disputed election turned into Christian-Muslim conflict: Calm Returns to Nigerian City After Deadly Clashes (AP) The White House policy that &#8220;if a country cannot deal with a terrorism problem on its own, the United States reserves the right to act unilaterally&#8221; may make India [&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-850","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\/850","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=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}