{"id":862,"date":"2008-12-11T12:45:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T17:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=862"},"modified":"2008-12-19T11:30:21","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T16:30:21","slug":"news-and-analysis-121108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=862","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/11\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit accuses former attorney general Ashcroft of singling out Arab Muslims for &#8220;harsh treatment because of their religion and ethnicity&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/12\/10\/AR2008121003221.html\">Court Weighs Post-9\/11 Liability<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hussein era debts and asset claims threaten to bankrupt the Iraqi government:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/11\/world\/middleeast\/11claims.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1&#038;ref=world\">U.S. Joins Effort to Bar Claims on Iraqi Coffers<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite report, top aid to Abbas denies any request to delay the release of prisoners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1044672.html\">Officials: Abbas Wants to Keep Prisoners in Jail Until His Return from Hajj<\/a> (AP \/ Haaretz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pakistan agrees to outlaw Jamaat-ud-Dawa in accordance with the UN resolution:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/1211\/p06s02-wosc.html\">India: Pakistan Must Sustain Resolve<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Muslim Pal intends to &#8220;connect Muslim communities to each other, and to the wider world, through shared online experiences&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/12\/10\/AR2008121002650.html\">&#8220;Second Life&#8221; for Muslims Launches Online<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The real challenge will be trying to contain the fights to parliament and keep them from spreading          into fighting on the ground&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/1211\/p01s03-wome.html\">Maliki&#8217;s Tenure on Ice as Rift with Kurds Widens<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sheik Lawrence Mutib Hazan played a key role in the Anbar Awakening and the success of fighting the insurgency:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-sheik11-2008dec11,0,7897748.story\">Iraq&#8217;s Modern-Day Lawrence of Arabia<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawsuit accuses former attorney general Ashcroft of singling out Arab Muslims for &#8220;harsh treatment because of their religion and ethnicity&#8221;: Court Weighs Post-9\/11 Liability (Washington Post) Hussein era debts and asset claims threaten to bankrupt the Iraqi government: U.S. Joins Effort to Bar Claims on Iraqi Coffers (NY Times) Despite report, top aid to Abbas [&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-862","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\/862","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=862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}