{"id":865,"date":"2008-12-14T12:23:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T17:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=865"},"modified":"2008-12-14T12:23:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T17:23:04","slug":"news-and-analysis-1213-1408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=865","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/13-14\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The United States government has in place neither the policies and technical capacity nor the organizational structure that would be needed to undertake such a program on anything approaching this scale&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/14\/world\/middleeast\/14reconstruct.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1&#038;ref=world\">Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iranian court grants a woman&#8217;s demand of &#8220;an eye for eye&#8221; for the man who threw acid in her face:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/12\/13\/AR2008121302147.html\">Woman Blinded by Spurned Man Invokes Islamic Retribution<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; while Iraqi families&#8217; hopes for justice in the Blackwater case rise and fall due to what an anonymous Iraqi official calls their unfamiliarity &#8220;with American legal procedures:&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/14\/world\/middleeast\/14iraq.html?ref=world\">Iraqi Victims and Families Meet U.S. Prosecutors<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Election turnout\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;reasojnably high&#8221; despite majority Muslims protest in Hindu-ruled Kashmir:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/asia\/2008\/12\/200812137171650434.html\">Clashes Mar Indian Kashmir Voting<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pakistan remains on high alert after India &#8220;inadvertently&#8221; crossed into Pakistani airspace:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/12\/13\/AR2008121301311.html\">Pakistan Cites Airspace Breach<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maliki says &#8220;training and mentoring teams&#8221; will not stay past 2011:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-gates14-2008dec14,0,7439002.story\">Some Troops to Stay in Iraqi Cities Past June<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An Al Jazeera&#8217;s correspondent reports that Gazans feel they have gained very little and remain skeptical of truce with Israel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/12\/20081214104313606676.html\">Thousands Mark Hamas Anniversary<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The United States government has in place neither the policies and technical capacity nor the organizational structure that would be needed to undertake such a program on anything approaching this scale&#8221;: Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders (NY Times) Iranian court grants a woman&#8217;s demand of &#8220;an eye for eye&#8221; for the man who threw [&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-865","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\/865","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=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}