{"id":2687,"date":"2008-08-30T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2008-08-30T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T09:00:07","slug":"2008-8-30-links-august-29th-to-august-30th-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2687","title":{"rendered":"Links August 29th to August 30th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for August 29th through August 30th:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/05\/opinion\/05palin.html?hp\">Bearing Up &#8211; New York Times<\/a> &#8211; McCain VP Sarah Palin&#39;s old NYT op-ed against making polar bears an endangered species<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061117064643\/http:\/\/planforiraq.com\/\">Plan For Iraq<\/a> &#8211; Internet archive cache of planforiraq.com, the Joe Biden-backed website that advocated the extreme federalization of Iraq<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dailystaregypt.com\/article.aspx?ArticleID=16062\">Daily News Egypt &#8211; FOUR DECADES AFTER SAYYID QUTB&rsquo;S EXECUTION<\/a> &#8211; Ibrahim Hudaiby on the MB and Sayyid Qutb&#39;s legacy<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jMnTkvgAdqHKAZ9puHcnTlECPtzg\">AFP: Egypt policeman seizes baby in hunt for fugitive<\/a> &#8211; &quot;An Egyptian police officer held an 18-month-old baby hostage for five hours in a bid to secure the surrender of the child&#39;s fugitive uncle, a security official said on Friday.<br \/>Police have now opened an investigation into the incident which happened in a village in the Nile Delta on Tuesday, the official said.<br \/>The uncle, who lived with the child and its mother, had absconded after being sentenced to a year in prison for forging a cheque.&quot;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com\/articles\/14110\/\">Jimmy Carter Conspicuously Absent From Podium &#8211; Forward.com&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; &quot;Breaking with the tradition of giving speech time to living former presidents, convention organizers honored Carter with only a short video clip highlighting his work with Hurricane Katrina victims and a brief walk across the Pepsi Center stage.\n<p>The sidelining of Carter was driven by recognition in the Obama camp and among Democratic leaders that giving the former president a prominent convention spot might alienate Jewish voters.&quot;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/article\/20080829\/REVIEW\/763377638\/-1\/ART\">Salad Days | The National<br \/>Salad days<br \/> &#8211; The National Newspaper<\/a> &#8211; Ursula Lindsey on Nadia Kamel&#39;s Salata Baladi<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/28\/AR2008082802200.html?wpisrc=newsletter\">Iraq and China Sign $3 Billion Oil Contract &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a> &#8211; Well it seems at least China has confidence in the future of Iraq<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dailystaregypt.com\/article.aspx?ArticleID=16059\">Daily News Egypt &#8211; A BLEAK VIEW FROM AN EGYPTIAN DYSTOPIA<\/a> &#8211; Egyptian writer pens a dystopic vision of today<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/mideast-africa\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12010145\">Libya | Time for a new generation  | Economist.com<\/a> &#8211; On Seif&#39;s &quot;retirement&quot; from politics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for August 29th through August 30th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/05\/opinion\/05palin.html?hp\">Bearing Up &#8211; New York Times<\/a> &#8211; McCain VP Sarah Palin&#39;s old NYT op-ed against making polar bears an endangered species<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20061117064643\/http:\/\/planforiraq.com\/\">Plan For Iraq<\/a> &#8211; Internet archive cache of planforiraq.com, the Joe Biden-backed website that advocated the extreme federalization of Iraq<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dailystaregypt.com\/article.aspx?ArticleID=16062\">Daily News Egypt &#8211; FOUR DECADES AFTER SAYYID QUTB&rsquo;S EXECUTION<\/a> &#8211; Ibrahim Hudaiby on the MB and Sayyid Qutb&#39;s legacy<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jMnTkvgAdqHKAZ9puHcnTlECPtzg\">AFP: Egypt policeman seizes baby in hunt for fugitive<\/a> &#8211; &quot;An Egyptian police officer held an 18-month-old baby hostage for five hours in a bid to secure the surrender of the child&#39;s fugitive uncle, a security official said on Friday.<br \/>\nPolice have now opened an investigation into the incident which happened in a village in the Nile Delta on Tuesday, the official said.<br \/>\nThe uncle, who lived with the child and its mother, had absconded after being sentenced to a year in prison for forging a cheque.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com\/articles\/14110\/\">Jimmy Carter Conspicuously Absent From Podium &#8211; Forward.com&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; &quot;Breaking with the tradition of giving speech time to living former presidents, convention organizers honored Carter with only a short video clip highlighting his work with Hurricane Katrina victims and a brief walk across the Pepsi Center stage.<br \/>\nThe sidelining of Carter was driven by recognition in the Obama camp and among Democratic leaders that giving the former president a prominent convention spot might alienate Jewish voters.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/article\/20080829\/REVIEW\/763377638\/-1\/ART\">Salad Days | The National<br \/>\nSalad days<br \/>\n &#8211; The National Newspaper<\/a> &#8211; Ursula Lindsey on Nadia Kamel&#39;s Salata Baladi<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/28\/AR2008082802200.html?wpisrc=newsletter\">Iraq and China Sign $3 Billion Oil Contract &#8211; washingtonpost.com<\/a> &#8211; Well it seems at least China has confidence in the future of Iraq<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dailystaregypt.com\/article.aspx?ArticleID=16059\">Daily News Egypt &#8211; A BLEAK VIEW FROM AN EGYPTIAN DYSTOPIA<\/a> &#8211; Egyptian writer pens a dystopic vision of today<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/world\/mideast-africa\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12010145\">Libya | Time for a new generation  | Economist.com<\/a> &#8211; On Seif&#39;s &quot;retirement&quot; from politics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[211],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}