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Page 10A WORLD East Oregonian Saturday, November 14, 2015 PARIS: No immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks Continued from 1A between the French and German national teams. Within minutes, according to Paris police chief Michel Cadot, another group of attackers sprayed cafes outside the concert hall ZLWK PDFKLQH JXQ¿UH WKHQ stormed inside and opened ¿UHRQWKHSDQLFNHGDXGLHQFH As police closed in, they detonated explosive belts, killing themselves. Hollande, who had to be evacuated from the stadium when the bombs went off outside, later vowed that WKH QDWLRQ ZRXOG VWDQG ¿UP and united: “A determined France, a united France, a France that joins together and a France that will not allow itself to be staggered HYHQLIWRGD\WKHUHLVLQ¿QLWH emotion faced with this disaster, this tragedy, which is an abomination, because it is barbarism.” There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks, although jihadists on Twitter immediately praised them and criticized France’s military operations against Islamic State extremists. In addition to the deaths at the concert hall, dozens were killed in an attack on a restaurant in the 10th arrondissement and several other establishments crowded on a Friday night, police said. Authorities said at least three people died when the bombs went off outside the soccer stadium. $OO RI WKH RI¿FLDOV VSRNH on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to be publicly named in the quickly moving investigation. “This is a terrible ordeal that again assails us,” Hollande said in a nationally televised address. “We know where it comes from, who these criminals are, who these terrorists are.” U.S. President Barack Obama, speaking to reporters in Washington, decried an “attack on all humanity,” calling the Paris violence an “outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians” and vowing to do whatever it takes to help bring the perpetrators to justice. AP Photo/Jerome Delay A victim is evacuated after a shooting, near the Bata- clan theater in Paris, Friday. AP Photo/Thibault Camus Victims lay on the pavement in a Paris restaurant, Friday. Recent deadly attacks The attacks around Paris are one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Europe’s recent history. Some other terror attacks in Western Europe: DEAD DATE LOCATION INCIDENT March 2004 Madrid, Spain Rush-hour trains at Madrid's Atocha station are bombed in Europe's worst Islamic terror attack. 191 July 2011 Norway Anti-Muslim extremist Anders Behring Breivik plants a bomb in Oslo then attacks a youth camp on Norway's Utoya island. 77 July 2005 London Suicide bombers blow themselves up on three London subway trains and a bus. 52 January 2015 Paris Gunmen attack the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. 12 March 2015 Toulouse, France A gunman claiming links to al-Qaida kills three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers 7 January 2015 Paris Gunmen storm a kosher market on the ourskirts of Paris. 4 May 2013 London Two al-Qaida inspired extremists run down Brit- ish soldier Lee Rigby in a London street, then stab and hack him to death. 1 SOURCE: The Associated Press Two explosions were heard outside the Stade de France stadium north of Paris during a France-Germany exhibition soccer game. $ SROLFH XQLRQ RI¿FLDO Gregory Goupil of the Alli- ance Police Nationale, whose region includes the area of the stadium, said there were two suicide attacks and a bombing that killed at least three people near two AP entrances and a McDonalds. The blasts penetrated the sounds of cheering fans, according to an Associated Press reporter in the stadium. Sirens were immediately heard, and a helicopter was circling overhead. France has heightened security measures ahead of a major global climate confer- ence that starts in two weeks, out of fear of violent protests and potential terrorist attacks. Hollande canceled a planned trip to this weekend’s G-20 summit in Turkey, which was to focus in large part on growing fears of terrorism carried out by Islamic extremists. Emilio Macchio, from Ravenna, Italy, was at Le Carillon restaurant, one of the restaurants targeted, having a beer on the sidewalk, when the shooting started. He said he didn’t see any gunmen or victims, but hid behind a corner, then ran away. ³,W VRXQGHG OLNH ¿UH- works,” he said. France has been on edge since January, when Islamic extremists attacked the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which had run cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, and a kosher grocery. Twenty people died, including the three attackers. The Charlie Hebdo attackers claimed links to extremists in Yemen, while the kosher market attacker claimed ties to the Islamic State group. This time, they targeted young people enjoying a rock concert and ordinary city residents enjoying a Friday night out. One of the targeted restau- rants, Le Carillon, is in the same general neighborhood DVWKH&KDUOLH+HEGRRI¿FHV as is the Bataclan, among the best-known venues in eastern Paris, near the trendy Oberkampf area known for a vibrant nightlife. The Cali- fornia-based band Eagles of Death Metal was scheduled to play there Friday night. $PRQJWKH¿UVWSK\VLFLDQV to respond to the wounded Friday was Patrick Pelloux, an emergency room doctor and former Charlie Hebdo writer who was among the ¿UVW WR HQWHU WKH RI¿FHV -DQ WR ¿QG KLV IULHQGV DQG colleagues dead. The country has seen several smaller-scale attacks or attempts since, including an incident on a high-speed train in August in which American travelers thwarted an attempted attack by a heavily armed man. France’s military is bombing Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq and ¿JKWLQJH[WUHPLVWVLQ$IULFD and extremist groups have frequently threatened France in the past. French authorities are particularly concerned about the threat from hundreds of French Islamic radicals who have travelled to Syria and returned home with skills to stage violence. Though it was unclear who was responsible for Friday night’s violence, the Islamic State is “clearly the name at the top of everyone’s list,” said Brian Michael Jenkins, a terrorism expert and senior adviser to the president of the Washington-based RAND Corporation. Jenkins said the tactic used — “multiple attackers in coordinated attacks at multiple locations” — echoed recommendations published in the extremist group’s online magazine, Dabbiq, over the summer. “The big question on everyone’s mind is, were these attackers, if they turn out to be connected to one of the groups in Syria, were they homegrown terrorists or ZHUH WKH\ UHWXUQLQJ ¿JKWHUV from having served” with the Islamic State group, Jenkins said. “That will be a huge question.” ——— Associated Press writers Angela Charlton, Sylvie Corbet, Jerome Pugmire, Samuel Petrequin, Jamey Keaten and John-Thor Dahl- burg contributed to this story. WORLD BRIEFLY Military: U.S. ‘reasonably certain’ Jihadi John is dead WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military is “reasonably certain” its drone strike in Syria killed the masked Islamic State militant known as “Jihadi John,” who appeared in several videos depicting the beheadings of Western hostages. But families of the hostages brutally killed last year said his presumed death is little solace. Army Col. Steve Warren, U.S. military spokesman LQ%DJKGDGWROGUHSRUWHUV)ULGD\WKDWRI¿FLDOVKDGEHHQ following Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born British citizen, for some time. “The intelligence indicators that we had gave us great FRQ¿GHQFHWKDWWKLVLQGLYLGXDOZDV-LKDGL-RKQDQGZKHQ the opportunity presented itself — with the opportunity for minimal civilian casualties — we took the shot,” Warren said. “This guy was a human animal, and killing him is probably making the world a little bit better place.” $QRWKHU86RI¿FLDOWROG7KH$VVRFLDWHG3UHVVWKDWWKUHH drones — two U.S. and one British — targeted the vehicle in which Emwazi was believed to be traveling in Raqqa, the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital in northern Syria. 7KHRI¿FLDOZKRZDVQRWDXWKRUL]HGWRVSHDNSXEOLFO\DQG requested anonymity, said the U.S. drone, armed with a +HOO¿UHPLVVLOHVWUXFNWKHYHKLFOH $4,600,000 Russian track federation suspended, could miss Rio Olympics LONDON (AP) — Calling it a wake-up call for a sport in a “shameful” position, IAAF President Sebastian Coe said Russia will be banned from next year’s Olympics unless it convinces the world it has cleaned up its act on doping. The sport’s governing body provisionally suspended 5XVVLD¶VWUDFNDQG¿HOGIHGHUDWLRQRQ)ULGD\IRXUGD\VDIWHU the country was accused of operating a vast, state-sponsored doping program in a damning report by a World Anti-Doping Agency commission. The move bars Russia from all international track and ¿HOGFRPSHWLWLRQIRUDQLQGH¿QLWHSHULRGLQFOXGLQJWKH 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, until the country is judged WRKDYH¿[HGLWVSUREOHPVDQGIDOOHQLQWROLQHZLWKJOREDO anti-doping rules. Coe called the decision — approved 22-1 in a secret vote of the IAAF council via teleconference — “the toughest VDQFWLRQZHFDQDSSO\DWWKLVWLPH´,W¶VWKH¿UVWWLPHWKH International Association of Athletics Federations has ever banned a country over its doping failures. Utah judge reverses order to take baby from lesbian couple PRICE, Utah (AP) — A Utah lesbian couple said Friday WKH\DUHUHOLHYHGDIWHU¿QGLQJRXWWKH\ZLOOEHDEOHWRNHHSD baby girl they have been raising as foster parents. 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