{"id":2884,"date":"2009-02-04T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2884"},"modified":"2009-02-04T12:00:17","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T12:00:17","slug":"2009-2-4-links-for-february-4th-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2884","title":{"rendered":"Links for February 4th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for February 4th:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1134323\/Man-sentenced-30-lashes-flouting-smoking-ban-Saudi-Arabian-flight.html\">Man sentenced to 30 lashes as punishment for flouting no smoking ban on Saudi Arabian flight | Mail Online<\/a> &#8211; Savages.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mondediplo.com\/2009\/02\/02gazawar\">Gaza war changes Middle East equation at Israel&rsquo;s expense<\/a> &#8211; Alain Gresh in Le Monde Diplomatique.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/proche-orient\/article\/2009\/02\/03\/le-hamas-n-est-plus-le-mouvement-revolutionnaire-et-religieux-que-l-on-veut-bien-decrire_1150309_3218.html#xtor=RSS-3210\">&#8220;Le Hamas n&#8217;est plus le mouvement r&eacute;volutionnaire et religieux que l&#8217;on veut bien d&eacute;crire&#8221; &#8211; Proche-Orient &#8211; Le Monde.fr<\/a> &#8211; French senator talks to Meshaal, Hamas isolation weakening, Israelis not happy.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/04\/world\/middleeast\/04saudi.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Saudis Issue List of 85 Terrorism Suspects &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; So much for the famed Saudi rehabilitation program: &quot;DUBAI, United Arab Emirates &mdash; Eleven Saudis who were released from Guant&aacute;namo Bay, Cuba, and then passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists are now believed to have fled the country and joined terrorist groups abroad, Saudi officials said Tuesday.&quot;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/snarla.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/03\/my-nemesis-egyptian-dialect\/\">My Nemesis: Egyptian Dialect<\/a> &#8211; Anonymous Arabist (not me) has problems with the non-pronunciation of the qaf in &#39;amiyya. He gives funny examples of how that would work if the &#39;k&#39; was not pronounced in English: &ldquo;Hey, you know that Star Tre&rsquo; movie where Ri&rsquo;ardo Montalban plays &lsquo;an, and aptain Ir&rsquo; yells out, &lsquo;AAAAAAAAAAaaaaan!&rsquo;?&rdquo;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/our-new-madoff.html\">Egyptian chronicles: Our New Egyptian Madoff<\/a> &#8211; Ponzi scheme ruins famous and well-connected in Egypt too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for February 4th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/article-1134323\/Man-sentenced-30-lashes-flouting-smoking-ban-Saudi-Arabian-flight.html\">Man sentenced to 30 lashes as punishment for flouting no smoking ban on Saudi Arabian flight | Mail Online<\/a> &#8211; Savages.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mondediplo.com\/2009\/02\/02gazawar\">Gaza war changes Middle East equation at Israel&rsquo;s expense<\/a> &#8211; Alain Gresh in Le Monde Diplomatique.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/proche-orient\/article\/2009\/02\/03\/le-hamas-n-est-plus-le-mouvement-revolutionnaire-et-religieux-que-l-on-veut-bien-decrire_1150309_3218.html#xtor=RSS-3210\">&#8220;Le Hamas n&#8217;est plus le mouvement r&eacute;volutionnaire et religieux que l&#8217;on veut bien d&eacute;crire&#8221; &#8211; Proche-Orient &#8211; Le Monde.fr<\/a> &#8211; French senator talks to Meshaal, Hamas isolation weakening, Israelis not happy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/04\/world\/middleeast\/04saudi.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Saudis Issue List of 85 Terrorism Suspects &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; So much for the famed Saudi rehabilitation program: &quot;DUBAI, United Arab Emirates &mdash; Eleven Saudis who were released from Guant&aacute;namo Bay, Cuba, and then passed through a Saudi rehabilitation program for former jihadists are now believed to have fled the country and joined terrorist groups abroad, Saudi officials said Tuesday.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/snarla.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/03\/my-nemesis-egyptian-dialect\/\">My Nemesis: Egyptian Dialect<\/a> &#8211; Anonymous Arabist (not me) has problems with the non-pronunciation of the qaf in &#39;amiyya. He gives funny examples of how that would work if the &#39;k&#39; was not pronounced in English: &ldquo;Hey, you know that Star Tre&rsquo; movie where Ri&rsquo;ardo Montalban plays &lsquo;an, and aptain Ir&rsquo; yells out, &lsquo;AAAAAAAAAAaaaaan!&rsquo;?&rdquo;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/egyptianchronicles.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/our-new-madoff.html\">Egyptian chronicles: Our New Egyptian Madoff<\/a> &#8211; Ponzi scheme ruins famous and well-connected in Egypt too.<\/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\/2884"}],"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=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}