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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2016
France’s truck attack marks deadly twist in terror
Driver plowed
into crowd
of revelers
By PAISLEY DODDS
Associated Press
LONDON — France’s
deadly truck attack marks
a frightening new reality in
European terrorism: assailants
turning to an ever-expanding
arsenal in bloodshed that is
becoming harder to predict or
prevent.
Europe is no stranger to
such violence, but Thursday’s
death toll of at least 84 people
represented one of the dead-
liest vehicle attacks in recent
years.
Although the motiva-
tion behind the attack is
not yet clear, the Tuni-
sian driver plowed the vehi-
cle into a crowd of revelers
who had been watching ire-
works for Bastille Day festiv-
ities. Unlike attacks that have
involved
explosives-laden
vehicles, the sheer weight and
speed of the truck on the busy
promenade appeared to have
caused the high number of
deaths.
“Using vehicles in attacks
is a fairly well-established
tactic with al-Qaida and the
Islamic State group,” said Mat-
thew Henman, managing edi-
tor at IHS Jane’s Terrorism and
Insurgency Centre. “The delib-
erate use of a heavy truck tar-
geting a crowd illustrates the
demonstrability of the attack
and could be the precursor for
other attacks.”
Supporters of al-Qaida and
the Islamic State group praised
the attack Friday, but there
was no immediate claim of
responsibility.
The militant group has
called on supporters to use any
means possible to strike at its
targets. Attacks inspired by
terror groups in recent years
have involved planes, bull-
dozers, tractors, guns, knives,
machetes, bombs, explosives
and vehicles.
Other attacks
In France, there were two
other recent attacks using
vehicles, but it was disputed
whether the assailants had
links to terrorist cells. On
Dec. 22, 2014, a man ran over
a group of pedestrians at a
Christmas market in Nantes,
killing one and injuring nine
others. That attack came a day
after a similar one in Dijon
when a motorist also struck
pedestrians, injuring 13. Both
suspects, who survived, have
histories of mental illness.
In Montreal, a vehicle was
used to kill a soldier in October
2014; a year earlier, attackers
used a car to run over an off-
duty soldier in London before
stabbing him to death.
Terrorist attacks involving
vehicles have been more com-
mon outside of Europe.
The deadliest recent attack
occurred July 3 when a sui-
cide bomber from the Islamic
State group killed at least 292
people and wounded another
200 by exploding a minibus
in a crowded commercial area
of Baghdad. The blast came
near the end of the Islamic
holy month of Ramadan when
streets were teaming with peo-
ple — much like Thursday’s
festivities that drew crowds
across France.
In Afghanistan, Taliban
militants using a minivan
killed 64 people and wounded
more than 340 in an attack
this year aimed at a govern-
ment convoy. Last year, a
truck bomb was also used to
kill more than 10 people in
Kabul. Similarly, a dump truck
in Pakistan was loaded with
explosives and devastated the
Marriott Hotel in Islamabad in
2008, killing 50.
Israel, too, has seen a recent
series of attacks using vehi-
cles, many of which have been
used against Israeli soldiers or
civilians. Other attacks have
involved bulldozers and trac-
tors. Some bus and trolley sta-
tions have since been fortiied
with concrete barriers to pre-
vent cars from driving into
crowds.
College evacuates after gas leak
New high school funding
initiative qualiies for ballot
By EDWARD
STRATTON
The Daily Astorian
Clatsop Community Col-
lege evacuated for the second
time in as many months after
a contractor working on the
city’s combined sewer over-
low project breached a natural
gas line Thursday afternoon.
Public Works Director Ken
Cook said contractor Emery &
Sons Construction Group irst
breached a unmarked water
Promotes career
and technical
education
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
SALEM — An initiative to
dedicate more state funding to
high school dropout preven-
tion and career and technical
education has qualiied for the
November ballot, according to
the Secretary of State’s Ofice.
The campaign for Initia-
tive Petition 65, Oregonians
for High School Success Ini-
tiative, gathered 101,302 valid
signatures, 13,118 more than
the 88,184-signature threshold.
The ballot measure allo-
cates one-sixth of new state
revenue to high school dropout
prevention, college readiness
and career technical education
programs.
“Every Oregon high school
should provide students with
real world skills and hands-on
professional training that con-
nects to local good paying
jobs, and students should have
better access to college level
classes,” said Peter Zucker-
man, a spokesperson for the IP
65 campaign. “This measure
will do these things.”
The measure would infuse
high schools with about $147
million a year. That amount
would be signiicantly greater
if voters also approve a contro-
versial corporate sale tax mea-
sure in November, which lev-
ies a 2.5 percent tax on the
Oregon sales exceeding $25
million of certain corporations.
The deadline to turn in sig-
Oregonians for High School Success
Supporters of Initiative Petition 65 rally outside of the
Capitol and Secretary of State’s Elections Division in
June to celebrate turning in signatures in support of the
proposed measure. The initiative would boost funding for
high school dropout prevention, career technical educa-
tion and college readiness programs.
natures was July 8, but the
Secretary of State’s Ofice has
until the irst week of August
to verify all of the signatures.
Former Gov. Ted Kulon-
goski, LaToya Fick, executive
director of Stand for Children
and Carmen Rubio, executive
director of the Latino Network,
spearheaded the campaign for
IP 65 in hopes of boosting the
state’s lackluster graduation rate.
Only about 74 percent of
students in Oregon gradu-
ate from high school in four
years, one of the lowest rates
in the nation. And 75 percent
of Oregon high school stu-
dents who go straight to com-
munity college have to take
remedial classes, according to
the national Institute of Educa-
tion Sciences.
The Coalition of Commu-
nities of Color and the Oregon
School Boards Association
have endorsed the measure.
There is no organized
opposition to the measure, but
the Oregon Education Associ-
ation has declined to support
the measure.
Instead, the teachers union
is campaigning for passage of
the corporate sales tax mea-
sure, Initiative Petition 28. The
tax measure would yield about
$3 billion in additional reve-
nue each year for education
and other state services.
The political action com-
mittee, Oregonians for High
School Success, has already
raised $4.2 million to cam-
paign in support of IP 65.
The Capital Bureau is a
collaboration between EO
Media Group and Pamplin
Media Group.
line branching off of a main-
line carrying water to most
of the downtown core. While
digging out an area to ix the
water line, he said, the con-
tractor hit a 1-inch gas line, but
had the issue repaired within a
few hours.
Cook said the company
has another couple of months
worth of work on 16th Street,
portions of which have been
periodically closed by the
project.
The college evacuated
June 1 after another natural
gas leak. Ann Gyde, a project
manager for the college on the
Patriot Hall Redevelopment,
said the leak was related to
the college’s project.
“While moving mate-
rial on site, the natural gas
line that runs parallel to Lex-
ington Avenue was ruptured
during a crane lift,” said Greg
Dorcheus, the college’s plant
manager and other project
manager for the Patriot Hall
project.
Man accused of assaulting
Seaside Police oficer on beach
By KYLE SPURR
The Daily Astorian
A man was arrested last
week for assaulting and
injuring a Seaside Police
oficer on the beach near U
Street.
Oficer Elise Parkman
was responding to a report
of harassment on the Sea-
side Promenade the eve-
ning of July 6 when she
encountered Phillip Ellis
Allen II. He reportedly
refused lawful orders and
attacked Parkman.
Oficer Shauna Wood
assisted Parkman in placing
Allen under arrest.
During the confronta-
tion, Allen struck Parkman
in the head and she was
taken to Providence Sea-
side Hospital for a concussion.
She has since recovered and is
back on patrol.
Allen, 37, is known to the
Seaside Police as a transient
with mental health issues.
He was indicted by a grand
jury this week on charges of
assaulting a public safety ofi-
cer, interfering with a peace
oficer, recklessly endangering
another person, menacing and
resisting arrest.
He pleaded not guilty to the
charges Thursday during an
arraignment in Clatsop County
Circuit Court. He is in cus-
tody in Clatsop County Jail on
$25,000 bail.
Allen is due back in court
later this month for an early
resolution conference.
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