{"id":2717,"date":"2008-09-27T19:00:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2008-09-27T19:00:06","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T19:00:06","slug":"2008-9-27-links-september-26th-to-september-27th-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2717","title":{"rendered":"Links September 26th to September 27th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for September 26th through September 27th:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080927\/wl_mideast_afp\/mideastisraelsyriagolansocial\">Golan brides know there is no going back &#8211; Yahoo! News<\/a> &#8211; About a bride crossing the border from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to Syria<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Syriacomment\/~3\/404702919\/\">Car Bomb in Damascus and Rise of Salafi Groups in Region<\/a> &#8211; Josh Landis: &quot;The car bomb that exploded this morning in Syria is the first successful &ldquo;al-Qaida&rdquo; type terrorist attack in Syria in the last 10 years. Two theories are developing on little evidence so far. One is that the bombers were targeting a state security center. The other theory is that they were targetting Shiites. So far we don&rsquo;t know what the truth is.&quot; Link this with the recent reports of troop movements on the Lebanon border + anti-Syria \/ anti-Hizbullah feeling among Lebanese Salafists that Nir Rosen recently wrote about (see links from a couple of days ago).<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dailystaregypt.com\/article.aspx?ArticleID=16729\">Daily News Egypt &#8211; BUILDING YOUR OWN STATE<\/a> &#8211; Ibrahim Hudaiby:  &quot;When my father decided to buy a farm in the suburbs of Cairo and live there a few years ago, his justification was that if you decide to live in Egypt, you should be ready to build your own state. I must admit it took me years to understand what he meant.&quot;<br \/>&quot;To secure a decent, respectable life in Egypt, one should never depend on the state. The state&rsquo;s revenue mainly made up of taxes, tariffs and foreign aid, and the state&rsquo;s different apparatuses do not function to serve Egyptians, but rather a few hundred influential politicians and businessmen. The state&rsquo;s role starts by providing security for its citizens, residents and visitors. Mubarak&rsquo;s regime increasingly fails to do so. Not only is the police unable to prevent the mounting number of crimes, but it also participates in threatening people&rsquo;s safety through torture and corruption.&quot;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectcensored.org\/top-stories\/articles\/1-over-one-million-iraqi-deaths-caused-by-us-occupation\/\">#1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation | Project Censored<\/a> &#8211; The top under-reported story of this year is the death toll caused since the invasion of Iraq<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/americanfootprints.com\/drupal\/node\/4172\">Sarah Palin: Henry Kissinger is Beyond Naive When it Comes to Diplomacy<\/a> &#8211; Palin says Kissinger, Obama &quot;naive&quot; about diplomacy with Iran. Maybe Kissinger is naive, if he thought his time was well-spent with Palin.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1024230.html\">&#8216;The Secret&#8217;: Coming soon to a bookstore near you &#8211; Haaretz &#8211; Israel News<\/a> &#8211; Controversy over new book on the Lavon Affair, which refers very dirty underbelly (involving Skeletor himself, Shimon Peres) of what was in any case very dirty business.<\/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 26th through September 27th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080927\/wl_mideast_afp\/mideastisraelsyriagolansocial\">Golan brides know there is no going back &#8211; Yahoo! News<\/a> &#8211; About a bride crossing the border from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to Syria<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Syriacomment\/~3\/404702919\/\">Car Bomb in Damascus and Rise of Salafi Groups in Region<\/a> &#8211; Josh Landis: &quot;The car bomb that exploded this morning in Syria is the first successful &ldquo;al-Qaida&rdquo; type terrorist attack in Syria in the last 10 years. Two theories are developing on little evidence so far. One is that the bombers were targeting a state security center. The other theory is that they were targetting Shiites. So far we don&rsquo;t know what the truth is.&quot; Link this with the recent reports of troop movements on the Lebanon border + anti-Syria \/ anti-Hizbullah feeling among Lebanese Salafists that Nir Rosen recently wrote about (see links from a couple of days ago).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dailystaregypt.com\/article.aspx?ArticleID=16729\">Daily News Egypt &#8211; BUILDING YOUR OWN STATE<\/a> &#8211; Ibrahim Hudaiby:  &quot;When my father decided to buy a farm in the suburbs of Cairo and live there a few years ago, his justification was that if you decide to live in Egypt, you should be ready to build your own state. I must admit it took me years to understand what he meant.&quot;<br \/>\n&quot;To secure a decent, respectable life in Egypt, one should never depend on the state. The state&rsquo;s revenue mainly made up of taxes, tariffs and foreign aid, and the state&rsquo;s different apparatuses do not function to serve Egyptians, but rather a few hundred influential politicians and businessmen. The state&rsquo;s role starts by providing security for its citizens, residents and visitors. Mubarak&rsquo;s regime increasingly fails to do so. Not only is the police unable to prevent the mounting number of crimes, but it also participates in threatening people&rsquo;s safety through torture and corruption.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.projectcensored.org\/top-stories\/articles\/1-over-one-million-iraqi-deaths-caused-by-us-occupation\/\">#1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation | Project Censored<\/a> &#8211; The top under-reported story of this year is the death toll caused since the invasion of Iraq<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/americanfootprints.com\/drupal\/node\/4172\">Sarah Palin: Henry Kissinger is Beyond Naive When it Comes to Diplomacy<\/a> &#8211; Palin says Kissinger, Obama &quot;naive&quot; about diplomacy with Iran. Maybe Kissinger is naive, if he thought his time was well-spent with Palin.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1024230.html\">&#8216;The Secret&#8217;: Coming soon to a bookstore near you &#8211; Haaretz &#8211; Israel News<\/a> &#8211; Controversy over new book on the Lavon Affair, which refers very dirty underbelly (involving Skeletor himself, Shimon Peres) of what was in any case very dirty business.<\/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\/2717"}],"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=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}