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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
U.S. base in Cuba.
Nineteen of the remaining 55 prisoners are cleared for
release and could be freed in the final days of Barack Obama’s
presidency, part of an effort to shrink the prison since the
administration couldn’t close it on his watch.
But those left behind will face the future under Trump, who
has said he wants to keep Guantanamo open and recently called
on Obama to halt releases.
“There is a great deal of anxiety and fear,” said Pardiss
Kebriaei, a lawyer with the Center for Constitutional Rights,
a New York-based organization that represents five prisoners.
That backdrop has given a feeling of urgency to anti-Guan-
tanamo demonstrations scheduled for today’s anniversary in
London, Los Angeles and Washington, featuring activists in the
orange prison jumpsuits that came to symbolize the detention
center though now they are typically worn only by a handful of
detainees who have violated detention center rules and are on
“disciplinary status.”
Associated Press
Trump to face questions on
Russia hacking, business ties
NEW YORK — The last time Donald Trump held a news
conference, he was plunging into a heated general election cam-
paign with Hillary Clinton and suggested Russia could help dig
up some of his rival’s emails.
Nearly six months and a presidential campaign victory later,
Trump will finally step before reporters again today to face ques-
tions about what role he believes Russia played in the election
year hacking of Democratic groups — interference the intelli-
gence community says was intended to help the Republican
defeat Clinton. Trump has challenged that assessment and has
yet to say whether a full briefing with intelligence officials last
week did anything to sway him.
A U.S. official told The Associated Press on Tuesday that
the intelligence officials informed Trump about an unsubstan-
tiated report that Russia had compromising personal and finan-
cial information about him. The official spoke on the condition of
anonymity because the official was not allowed to publicly dis-
cuss the matter.
Shortly after news reports were published about the brief-
ing, Trump tweeted: “FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL
WITCH HUNT!”
A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin denied allegations
today.
Official: Trump briefed on
potentially compromising report
WASHINGTON — Top intelligence officials last week told
President-elect Donald Trump about an unsubstantiated report
that Russia had compromising personal and financial informa-
tion about him, a U.S. official says.
The briefing about the document was first reported by CNN.
A summary of the allegations was separate from a classified
assessment of Russia’s suspected attempts to meddle in the U.S.
presidential election. Trump and President Barack Obama were
briefed on the intelligence community’s findings last week.
Shortly after news reports were published about the brief-
ing, Trump tweeted: “FAKE NEWS - A TOTAL POLITICAL
WITCH HUNT!”
And in Moscow, a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin
denied the report. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov today dismissed
it as a “complete fabrication and utter nonsense.” He insisted
that the Kremlin “does not engage in collecting compromising
material.”
A U.S. official told The Associated Press on Tuesday that
intelligence officials had informed Trump about an unsubstanti-
ated report that Russia had compromising personal and financial
information about him. The Trump was expected to hold a pre-
viously scheduled news conference today to discuss his future
plans regarding his role with the Trump Organization. The offi-
cial who discussed the briefing by intelligence figures spoke on
condition of anonymity because the official was not allowed to
publicly discuss the matter.
Russia friend and sanctions foe,
Tillerson gets his hearing
WASHINGTON — Friend of Russia and foe of sanctions in
his corporate life, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secre-
tary of state, Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, is an unorthodox
choice for a Republican White House. He may feel perfectly at
home in Trump’s iconoclastic administration.
Likely to face pointed questions from both sides of the aisle
at his Senate confirmation hearing today, Tillerson represents
a break in a longstanding tradition of secretaries of state with
extensive military, legislative, political or diplomatic experi-
ence. Yet his supporters, including former GOP grandees Con-
doleezza Rice and Robert Gates, point to the oil man’s lengthy
career as a senior executive in a mammoth multinational com-
pany as proof he has the management and negotiating skills to
succeed as America’s top diplomat.
Democrats and even traditional GOP hawks are expected to
zero in on Tillerson’s role in orchestrating business deals with
Russia, which led to President Vladimir Putin awarding him the
Fierce battles leave hospital
in Iraqi city of Mosul gutted
AP Photo/Chuck Burton
Charleston, S.C., shooting suspect Dylann Roof is escort-
ed from the Cleveland County Courthouse in Shelby, N.C.,
in June. A federal jury has sentenced Roof to death for
killing nine black church members in a racially motivated
attack in 2015. A judge is verifying the sentence today.
Order of Friendship in 2013. Exxon and its subsidiaries’ activi-
ties in Iran and Iraq, and his environmental views are also likely
to be covered, as are suspicions that Tillerson’s focus will be
driven by corporate interests at the expense of the nation’s.
The severity of any challenge to Tillerson’s nomination is
unclear. Already, some leading Democrats who met privately
with him have voiced relief at his views on Russia, climate
change and trade, even if they appear not to mesh with those of
the president-elect.
Russia is sure to be foremost on everyone’s mind. With alle-
gations of Russian interference in the presidential election roil-
ing the nation, several lawmakers have spoken about scrutinizing
his and Exxon’s two-decade relationship with Putin and others
in Moscow.
Church families: Forgiving
shooter doesn’t mean sparing life
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Just because some of the families
of the nine people killed and three people who survived a rac-
ist massacre in a Charleston church have forgiven the man con-
victed in the shootings doesn’t mean they think his life should
have been spared.
There are a broad range of feelings among the loved ones who
were at Emanuel AME ranging from those who think there is no
justification to taking a life anytime to those who believe the bib-
lical Old Testament justice of an eye for an eye.
Dylann Roof will soon be off to federal death row, but the
families he shattered when he entered Emanuel AME Church and
fired 77 shots at the end of Bible study get one last chance to con-
front him today as U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel verifies the
jury’s sentence at a hearing.
It’s the only chance for them to speak to Roof and the court
directly, without having to answer specific questions.
The willingness to forgive dominated the news in the days
after the June 17, 2015, shootings as victims’ families and survi-
vors offered Roof forgiveness at his bond hearing. But there are
many like Melvin Graham who said forgiveness is still a work in
progress and he will forever grieve the death of his sister Cyn-
thia Hurd.
Inmates face uncertainty on
Guantanamo prison’s anniversary
MIAMI — The looming presidency of Donald Trump has
created a deep sense of uncertainty for inmates at Guantanamo
on the 15th anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at the
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MOSUL, Iraq — After weeks of airstrikes and artillery fire,
Mosul’s al-Salam hospital is little more than a burnt-out shell.
Retaken from the Islamic State group by Iraqi forces this month,
the building’s top floors were almost completely destroyed. The
gardens around the complex are strewn with medical records
and supplies. Bright blue hospital bedsheets hang from nearby
trees.
The hospital in eastern Mosul was the scene of one of the
most significant setbacks for Iraqi troops in the nearly 3-month
operation to retake Iraq’s second-largest city. On Dec. 6, after
advancing too quickly, Iraqi forces found themselves sur-
rounded by IS fighters in the hospital complex. Pummeled by
wave upon wave of militant counterattacks, dozens were killed
and wounded, according to Iraqi military and hospital officials,
eventually forcing a withdrawal.
Some Iraqi army officers blamed the setback on insuffi-
cient air support by the U.S.-led coalition. Others faulted poor
leadership and a lack of coordination among the many dispa-
rate Iraqi forces participating in the Mosul offensive, includ-
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structures.
Following the December withdrawal, Iraq’s elite rapid-re-
sponse unit joined the Iraqi army on Mosul’s southeast front
and the U.S.-led coalition increased its air campaign, despite
an initial reluctance to use airstrikes against IS in the vicinity
of the hospital.
Over the past month, coalition planes dropped 25 bombs
on the hospital complex, according to a Pentagon statement
provided to The Associated Press. After weeks of static front
lines, the renewed air and ground assault brought Iraqi forces
to the edge of the Tigris River. Since the Mosul operation was
launched in October, Iraqi forces have slowly clawed back
about a third of the city.
North Korea is a bad trip if
you’re looking to get high
PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea has been get-
ting some pretty high praise lately from the stoner world.
Marijuana news outlets including High Times, Merry Jane
and Green Rush — along with British tabloids, which always
love a good yarn — are hailing the North as a pothead paradise
and maybe even the next Amsterdam of pot tourism. They’ve
reported North Korean marijuana to be legal, abundant and
mind-blowingly cheap, sold openly to Chinese and Russian
tourists at a major market on the North’s border for about $3
a pound.
But seriously, North Korea? Baked?
The claim that marijuana is legal in North Korea is not true:
The North Korean penal code lists it as a controlled substance
in the same category as cocaine and heroin. And the person who
would likely help any American charged with a crime in North
Korea emphatically rejects the idea that the ban is not enforced.
“There should be no doubt that drugs, including marijuana,
are illegal here,” said Torkel Stiernlof, the Swedish ambas-
sador. The United States has no diplomatic relations with the
North, so Sweden’s embassy acts as a middleman when U.S.
citizens run afoul of North Korean laws.
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