{"id":2713,"date":"2008-09-26T11:00:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2713"},"modified":"2008-09-26T11:00:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T11:00:09","slug":"2008-9-26-links-september-25th-to-september-26th-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2713","title":{"rendered":"Links September 25th to September 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for September 25th through September 26th:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thenational.ae\/article\/20080926\/REVIEW\/410798081\/1008\">We run the road &#8211; The National Newspaper<\/a> &#8211; Nir Rosen rides with Lebanese salafists.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/news\/outfront\/2008\/09\/outfront-sworn-enemies.html\">Theater of the Absurd: Sworn Enemies<\/a> &#8211; Nir Rosen: &quot;American troops currently hold more than 20,000 detainees in two main Iraq prisons, and unknown numbers in smaller holding facilities. Very few have ever been charged. In December, the 1-28 Infantry asked elders in Baghdad&#39;s Jihad district to name neighborhood residents who should be released. A list of 700 men was submitted, most of them locked up for being &quot;suspected of Shiite militant activity,&quot; commanding officer Lt. Colonel Patrick Frank told me.&quot; You should really read the rest, including the weird oath released prisoners are made to say &#8212; and the pic accompanying the article is pretty funny.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2200806\/entry\/2200807\/\">Queen Rania of Jordan in New York. &#8211; By Rania Al Abdullah &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a> &#8211; Queen Rania&#39;s blog: &quot;I was there talking up the Middle East&mdash;not a region in conflict and turmoil, as many think, but a mosaic of cultures, stories, traditions, and warm, welcoming people.&quot; Oh I am relieved to hear that, all this time I thought it was a region in conflict and turmoil, I stand corrected and great news about the warm, welcoming people. Just remember not to throw shoes at them that would be culturally insensitive.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080925\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/ml_israel_professor_wounded\">Israeli professor wounded in Jerusalem bomb attack &#8211; Yahoo! News<\/a> &#8211; &quot;JERUSALEM &#8211; A pipe bomb exploded Thursday outside the home of a prominent Israeli scholar and outspoken critic of Jewish West Bank settlements, lightly wounding him in what police suspect was an attack by Jewish extremists.<br \/>Investigators found posters in Professor Zeev Sternhell&#39;s neighborhood offering a $320,000 prize to anyone who kills a member of Peace Now, a dovish Israeli group whose views Sternhall shares.&quot;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c110:H.R.6975:\">H. R. 6975 &#8211; bill currently being considered by Congress<\/a> &#8211; &quot;To require aliens to attest that they will not advocate installing a Sharia law system in the United States as a condition for admission, and for other purposes.&quot; It would also remove naturalization from US citizens who advocate Sharia, which surely would be unconstitutional.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for September 25th through September 26th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thenational.ae\/article\/20080926\/REVIEW\/410798081\/1008\">We run the road &#8211; The National Newspaper<\/a> &#8211; Nir Rosen rides with Lebanese salafists.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/news\/outfront\/2008\/09\/outfront-sworn-enemies.html\">Theater of the Absurd: Sworn Enemies<\/a> &#8211; Nir Rosen: &quot;American troops currently hold more than 20,000 detainees in two main Iraq prisons, and unknown numbers in smaller holding facilities. Very few have ever been charged. In December, the 1-28 Infantry asked elders in Baghdad&#39;s Jihad district to name neighborhood residents who should be released. A list of 700 men was submitted, most of them locked up for being &quot;suspected of Shiite militant activity,&quot; commanding officer Lt. Colonel Patrick Frank told me.&quot; You should really read the rest, including the weird oath released prisoners are made to say &#8212; and the pic accompanying the article is pretty funny.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2200806\/entry\/2200807\/\">Queen Rania of Jordan in New York. &#8211; By Rania Al Abdullah &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a> &#8211; Queen Rania&#39;s blog: &quot;I was there talking up the Middle East&mdash;not a region in conflict and turmoil, as many think, but a mosaic of cultures, stories, traditions, and warm, welcoming people.&quot; Oh I am relieved to hear that, all this time I thought it was a region in conflict and turmoil, I stand corrected and great news about the warm, welcoming people. Just remember not to throw shoes at them that would be culturally insensitive.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080925\/ap_on_re_mi_ea\/ml_israel_professor_wounded\">Israeli professor wounded in Jerusalem bomb attack &#8211; Yahoo! News<\/a> &#8211; &quot;JERUSALEM &#8211; A pipe bomb exploded Thursday outside the home of a prominent Israeli scholar and outspoken critic of Jewish West Bank settlements, lightly wounding him in what police suspect was an attack by Jewish extremists.<br \/>\nInvestigators found posters in Professor Zeev Sternhell&#39;s neighborhood offering a $320,000 prize to anyone who kills a member of Peace Now, a dovish Israeli group whose views Sternhall shares.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c110:H.R.6975:\">H. R. 6975 &#8211; bill currently being considered by Congress<\/a> &#8211; &quot;To require aliens to attest that they will not advocate installing a Sharia law system in the United States as a condition for admission, and for other purposes.&quot; It would also remove naturalization from US citizens who advocate Sharia, which surely would be unconstitutional.<\/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\/2713"}],"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=2713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}