{"id":866,"date":"2008-12-15T11:39:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T16:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=866"},"modified":"2008-12-15T11:44:36","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T16:44:36","slug":"news-and-analysis-121508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/15\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi security forces detain journalist,  holding his shoes as evidence:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/12\/15\/AR2008121500161.html?hpid=artslot\">Across Mideast, Arabs Hail Shoe-Hurling Journalist<\/a> (AP \/ Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The (U.S. military) detention is the worst possible example for a criminal justice system&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSTRE4BE2NK20081215?sp=true\">Iraqi Justice System Falls Short: Report<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sayyed Imam, &#8220;whose ideas help shape Al Qaeda&#8217;s ideology&#8221; now condemns the group as &#8220;a corrupt, wayward school [of Islamic thinking] to justify excess in shedding blood&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/1215\/p01s01-wome.html\">Ideological Clash of Two Jihadi Titans Shakes Al Qaeda<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dissenting with the exiled Khaled Mashal, Hamas&#8217;s co-founder Mahmoud Zahar wisely leaves the possibility extending the truce with Israel open:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/15\/world\/middleeast\/15mideast.html?_r=1&#038;ref=world\">Hamas, Showing Split, Hints It May Extend Truce<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Almost 11,000 Palestinians remain in Israeli custody and none of the freed, most of whom are Fatah fighters, are affiliated with Hamas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"DetailedTitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/12\/2008121510191208212.html\">Israel Frees Palestinian Prisoners<\/a>                 (Al Jazeera)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"DetailedTitle\">&#8220;Three-quarters of the most serious terrorist plots investigated by the British authorities have links to al-Qaeda in Pakistan,&#8221; &#8211; British Prime Minister Gordon Brown<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/12\/14\/AR2008121400574.html\">Brown Offers Pakistan Anti-Terror Aid<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iraqi security forces detain journalist, holding his shoes as evidence: Across Mideast, Arabs Hail Shoe-Hurling Journalist (AP \/ Washington Post) &#8220;The (U.S. military) detention is the worst possible example for a criminal justice system&#8221;: Iraqi Justice System Falls Short: Report (Reuters) Sayyed Imam, &#8220;whose ideas help shape Al Qaeda&#8217;s ideology&#8221; now condemns the group as [&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-866","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\/866","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=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}