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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2016
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
Iraq TV call-in show gives
glimpse inside IS-held Mosul
Clinton seeks to use new FBI
inquiry as galvanizing force
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Even before FBI Director James
Comey jolted the presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton and her
advisers were on edge.
Never mind that preference polls had Clinton ahead of Repub-
lican Donald Trump nationally and in nearly every battleground
state. Or that Democrats in Washington were starting to actively
prepare for a Clinton presidency, speculating about top Cabinet
nominees and next year’s White House agenda.
“The polls are going to tighten,” Clinton communications
director Jennifer Palmieri warned as she talked with the cam-
paign’s traveling press corps on Friday. After swatting away a
rumor about post-election planning — this one about Vice Pres-
ident Joe Biden being considered to lead the State Department
— Palmieri predicted, “Next week you guys are going to come
to us and say, ‘the polls are tightening and you were focused on
the transition.’”
“No,” she added. “We are not.”
Palmieri had barely made it back to the front of the campaign
plane when news broke that the FBI had told Congress it had
found new emails that may be related to Clinton’s use of a private
server while secretary of state. Speculation about a Clinton White
House was quickly replaced by questions about whether a winna-
ble race might slip from her grasp.
Florida’s I-4 corridor is where
the election could be won
ORLANDO, Fla. — The Interstate 4 corridor stretching from
the Tampa Bay area through Orlando to Daytona Beach is a bell-
wether of the nation’s largest swing state, where candidates cam-
paigned vigorously last week.
North Florida is predictably Republican, and South Florida
remains strongly Democratic, leaving a swath around Interstate 4
as the state’s primary battleground.
The 6.5 million residents living around the 140-mile highway
reflect the diversity of the state, and they account for a third of
Florida’s registered voters. The large bustling metros of Tampa
and Orlando are broken up by the citrus and cattle fiefdoms of
Polk County.
Kissimmee in suburban Orlando has become a destination for
Puerto Ricans fleeing the deteriorating economy on the island.
The suburbs of Orlando give way to the motors sports traditions
of Daytona Beach and the gateway to the Kennedy Space Center.
More than a third of I-4 voters are registered Democrats,
a third are registered Republicans and a quarter have no party
affiliation.
Massive, weeklong Oklahoma
manhunt ends with suspect dead
LEEDEY, Okla. — A massive, weeklong manhunt for a sus-
pect in a string of violent crimes, including the killing of two rel-
atives, the shooting of two police officers and multiple carjack-
ings, ended on Sunday evening in a police chase and shootout
that left the man dead in western Oklahoma.
Authorities said Michael Dale Vance Jr., 38, was shot and
killed by an Oklahoma state trooper near Leedey, Oklahoma,
about 130 miles northwest of Oklahoma City. Earlier in the day,
Vance shot and wounded a Dewey County officer and fled in a
AP Photo/Chris O’Meara
Joe Redner, businessman and independent candidate for
the Florida Senate, gestures during an interview outside
his “Mons Venus” adult night club in Tampa, Fla. The In-
terstate 4 corridor stretching from the Tampa Bay area
through Orlando to Daytona Beach is considered the
bellwether of the nation’s largest swing state, where both
candidates campaigned vigorously this week. The 6.5 mil-
lion residents living in the corridor of the 140-mile high-
way reflect the diversity of the state.
car, according to Dave Turk, spokesman for the U.S. Marshals
Service in Washington, D.C., which participated in the manhunt.
Officers pursued Vance for about half an hour when he was
approached by an Oklahoma state trooper.
“There was an exchange of gunfire between the state trooper
and the subject, and the subject was killed,” Turk said.
Vance was wanted on multiple charges, including two counts
of first-degree murder. A search for Vance began after he shot and
wounded two police officers on Oct. 23 in Wellston, 35 miles
northeast of Oklahoma City, authorities said.
In dawn assault, Iraqi special
forces near Mosul from east
BAZWAYA, Iraq — Iraqi special forces advanced on the
Islamic State-held city of Mosul from the east on Monday, taking
heavy fire but entering the last village before the city limits and
clearing a path that was followed by army units.
Armored vehicles, including Abrams tanks, drew mortar and
small arms fire as they moved on the village of Bazwaya in the
dawn assault, while allied artillery and airstrikes hit IS positions.
Car bombers are trying to stop the advance, but the troops,
just 2 miles (3 kilometers) from Mosul’s eastern outskirts, aim to
enter it later in the day, Brig. Gen. Haider Fadhil said. The army
said another unit, its ninth division, had moved up toward Mosul
and was now approximately three miles from its eastern outskirts.
At one point, a Humvee packed with explosives raced ahead
in an attempt to ram the forces, but Iraqi troops opened fire on
it, setting off the charge and blowing up the vehicle. Plumes
of smoke rose in the air from IS positions hit by artillery and
airstrikes.
State television described the operation as a “battle of honor”
to liberate the city, captured by IS from a superior yet neglected
Iraqi force in 2014.
IRBIL, Iraq — As evening approaches in Iraq’s northern city
of Irbil, TV presenter Bakr Mahmoud Mahdi prepares to go live
with a show called “Freedom Studio,” which he says allows vic-
tims of war to vent.
His callers — and there have been fewer of them lately —
are civilians living inside the city of Mosul, Iraq’s second-larg-
est, and describing what life is like under the rule of the Islamic
State group.
On a recent broadcast, a woman who identified herself as
Umm Nour called in from Mosul.
“God willing there isn’t a lot left and I hope that the watchers
can pray for those inside Mosul to overcome Daesh,” she said,
using the Arabic-language acronym for the IS group. Most of the
other callers dial in to complain about life under IS rule, Mahdi
says.
“There is a crisis in terms of food supply, there is a fuel crisis
and there is a crisis in the inhumane way the Daesh thugs treat the
people of Mosul,” he said.
The reformer pope heads to
Sweden to mark Luther’s reforms
LUND, Sweden — Pope Francis is heading to secular Sweden
to mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, a
remarkably bold gesture given his very own Jesuit religious order
was founded to defend the faith against Martin Luther’s “hereti-
cal” reforms five centuries ago.
While the visit initially raised eyebrows, the Vatican and
Lutheran church both insist that Monday’s event is no celebra-
tion of Luther’s revolt. Rather, they say, it’s a solemn commem-
oration to ask forgiveness for the schism in Western Christi-
anity and rejoice that relations have improved in the last five
decades.
Francis has prioritized these deeply symbolic encounters to
show that even while divided on dogma, the Christian faithful
must work together and pray together, especially in times of reli-
gious persecution.
“If we don’t do it, we Christians hurt ourselves by division,”
Francis said in an interview this weekend with a Jesuit journal.
After meeting with Sweden’s prime minister and royals upon
arrival Monday, Francis participates in an ecumenical prayer ser-
vice at the Lutheran cathedral in Lund, in southern Sweden. Join-
ing him is the head of the Lutheran World Federation, Bishop
Munib Younan.
2 women unite to take ‘honor’
out of killing in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD — So much divides two women who fought in
the battle to take the “honor” out of killing in Pakistan.
Naeema Kishwar shrouds herself in a burqa, showing only
her eyes. She belongs to a political party that has been linked to
the Taliban. And she comes from deeply conservative tribal lands
where girls have been killed for going to school.
Sughra Imam sometimes wears a scarf draped lightly on her
hair, but often her head is bare. She belongs to a liberal party
whose leader, Benazir Bhutto, the first female prime minister of
this predominantly Muslim nation, was assassinated by extrem-
ists. She comes from a prominent Pakistani family and was edu-
cated at Harvard.
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