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WORLD IN BRIEF
it ever held — and the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, which once
served as its de facto capital. Tens of thousands of its fighters have
been killed on the battlefield, but an untold number have escaped.
As it gradually disintegrates, theological splits have also emerged
within the organization, including the rise of a faction that blames
its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, for the setbacks.
Associated Press
Family of slain sergeant says
Trump showed ‘disrespect’
WASHINGTON — The mother of an Army sergeant killed in
Niger said today that President Donald Trump, in a call offering
condolences, showed “disrespect” to the soldier’s loved ones as
they drove to the airport to meet his body. Trump, engulfed in con-
troversy over the appropriate way for presidents to show compas-
sion for slain soldiers, strongly disputed that account.
Sgt. La David Johnson was one of four American military per-
sonnel killed nearly two weeks ago whose families had not heard
from Trump until Tuesday. Rep. Frederica Wilson said that Trump
told the widow that Johnson “knew what he signed up for.”
The Florida Democrat said she was in the car with the widow,
Myeshia Johnson, on the way to Miami International Airport to
meet the body when Trump called. La David Johnson’s mother,
Cowanda Jones-Johnson, said today that the congresswoman’s
account was correct.
“Yes the statement is true,” Jones-Johnson said. “I was in the
car and I heard the full conversation.
That’s simply not so, Trump said today. He declared on Twit-
ter: “Democrat Congresswoman totally fabricated what I said to
the wife of a soldier who died in action (and I have proof). Sad!”
And in a White House meeting on tax reform, Trump said that
he “didn’t say what that congresswoman said, didn’t say it at all.
She knows it.”
Wilson did not back down from her account, suggesting that
Trump “never wants to take ownership” of a mistake.
“If you are the leader of the free world, if you are president of
the United States and you want to convey sympathy to a griev-
ing family, a grieving widow, you choose your words carefully,”
Wilson said. “And everyone knows that Donald Trump does not
choose his words carefully.”
Manhunt underway after 3 killed
at Maryland office shooting
EDGEWOOD, Md. — A gunman opened fire at a Maryland
office park this morning, killing three co-workers and wounding
two others, authorities and the business owner said.
A manhunt was underway for 37-year-old Radee Labeeb
Prince, who was considered armed and dangerous.
Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said Prince shot his
victims with a handgun and fled the Emmorton Business Park in
Edgewood, which is about 25 miles northeast of Baltimore. The
sheriff did not release a motive for the shooting.
The victims and the suspect worked for Advanced Granite
Solutions, according to the owner of the home improvement com-
pany. Prince has been an employee for four months, working as a
machine operator, owner Barak Caba said. Caba was shaken and
would not provide additional details.
The wounded were in critical condition, according to a spokes-
woman for the University of Maryland Medical Center’s R Adams
Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, speaking during a break from a
meeting of a state board, said the survivors had gunshot wounds
to the head.
He said authorities had helicopters in the air and police on the
ground looking for Prince.
“The killer remains on the loose,” Hogan said.
Tillerson: US seeks accountability
for Myanmar abuses
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Rex Tillerson con-
demned today reported atrocities committed against Rohingya
Muslims in Myanmar. He said those responsible — perhaps the
country’s military — will be held accountable.
Tillerson, who is set to visit South Asia next week, is urging the
Myanmar government to improve humanitarian access to the pop-
ulation in western Rakhine state.
Amnesty International has accused Myanmar’s security forces
of killing hundreds of men, women and children during a system-
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Senate health care deal in doubt
as Trump says he’s opposed
WPLG via AP
Myeshia Johnson cries over the casket of her husband,
Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed in an ambush in
Niger, upon his body’s arrival in Miami.
atic campaign to expel the Rohingya. More than 580,000 refugees
have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since late August.
“We really hold the military leadership accountable for what’s
happening,” Tillerson said at the Center for Strategic and Interna-
tional Studies, a Washington think tank. “What’s most important
to us is that the world can’t just stand idly by and be witness to the
atrocities that are being reported in that area.”
Judge: Newest travel ban ‘same
maladies’ as previous version
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan Senate deal to curb the growth
of health insurance premiums is reeling after President Donald
Trump reversed course and opposed the agreement and top con-
gressional Republicans and conservatives gave it a frosty reception.
Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash.,
announced their accord Tuesday after weeks of negotiations and
five days after Trump said he was halting federal subsidies to insur-
ers. Under the lawmakers’ agreement, the payments would con-
tinue for two years while states were given more leeway to let
insurers sidestep some coverage requirements imposed by Presi-
dent Barack Obama’s health care law.
In remarks Tuesday in the Rose Garden, Trump called the deal “a
very good solution” that would calm insurance markets, giving him
time to pursue his goal of scrapping Obama’s 2010 Affordable Care
Act, the target of Republican derision since it was signed into law.
Although top Democrats and some Republicans praised the
Alexander-Murray compromise agreement, Trump backed off
after a day of criticism from many in the GOP.
HONOLULU — Just hours before President Donald Trump’s
latest travel ban was to take full effect, a federal judge in Hawaii
blocked the revised order, saying the policy has the same problems
as a previous version.
The revised order “suffers from precisely the same maladies as
its predecessor,” U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson wrote in his
ruling, which prevented the Trump administration from enforcing
the travel ban set to go into effect early today.
It was the third set of travel restrictions issued by the president
to be thwarted, in whole or in part, by the courts.
A federal judge in Maryland quickly followed suit with a sim-
ilar ruling. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang also granted a
nationwide preliminary injunction late Tuesday.
Chuang’s ruling said the administration had “not shown that
national security cannot be maintained without an unprecedented
eight-country travel ban.”
Watson’s Tuesday ruling said the new ban, like its predecessor,
fails to show that nationality alone makes a person a greater secu-
rity risk to the U.S.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of cities are working fran-
tically to land Amazon’s second headquarters, raising a weighty
question with no easy answer:
Is it worth it?
Amazon is promising $5 billion of investment and 50,000 jobs
over the next decade and a half. Yet the winning city would have to
provide Amazon with generous tax breaks and other incentives that
can erode a city’s tax base.
Most economists say the answer is a qualified yes — that an
Amazon headquarters is a rare case in which a package of at least
modest enticements could repay a city over time. That’s particu-
larly true compared with other projects that often receive public
financial aid, from sports stadiums to the Olympics to manufac-
turing plants, which generally return lesser, if any, benefits over
the long run.
Al-Qaida set to gain as
Islamic State disintegrates
UN, US failed to prevent ethnic
cleansing in South Sudan
BEIRUT — Over several nights in September, some 10,000
men, women and children fled areas under Islamic State control,
hurrying through fields in northern Syria and risking fire from gov-
ernment troops to reach a province held by an al-Qaida-linked
group.
For an untold number of battle-hardened jihadis fleeing with
the civilians, the escape to Idlib province marked a homecoming of
sorts, an opportunity to continue waging war alongside an extrem-
ist group that shares much of the Islamic State’s ideology — and
has benefited from its prolonged downfall.
While the U.S.-led coalition and Russian-backed Syrian troops
have been focused on driving IS from the country’s east, an al-Qa-
ida-linked insurgent coalition known as the Levant Liberation
Committee has consolidated its control over Idlib, and may be
looking to return to Osama bin Laden’s strategy of attacking the
West.
Syrian activists with contacts in the area say members of the
Levant Liberation Committee vouched for fleeing IS fighters they
had known before the two groups split four years ago and allowed
them to join, while others were sent to jail. The activists spoke on
condition of anonymity because they still visit the area and fear
reprisals from the jihadis.
IS has lost nearly all the territory it once controlled in Syria
and Iraq, including the northern Iraqi city of Mosul — the largest
YEI, South Sudan — Until the summer of 2016, South Sudan’s
Yei region was a leafy oasis in the midst of the country’s civil
war. But when a national peace deal broke down and government
soldiers ransacked the area, a handful of U.N. and U.S. officials
begged their leaders for help.
The United Nations must send peacekeepers to Yei to protect
civilians from President Salva Kiir’s forces, who are burning vil-
lages and slaughtering men, women and children, they argued. And
the U.S. needs to change its approach in the face of a potential
genocide, they warned.
The pleas of officials and residents fell on deaf ears. The U.N.
did not send peacekeeping troops to stay in Yei, and the U.S. con-
tinued to support South Sudan’s military, possibly in violation of
U.S. law, an AP investigation found. The investigation is based on
more than 30 internal or confidential documents from the U.N.,
White House or State Department, and dozens of interviews with
current or former officials and civilians.
In a matter of weeks, Yei became the center of a nationwide
campaign of what the U.N. calls ethnic cleansing, which has cre-
ated the largest exodus of civilians in Africa since the Rwandan
genocide in 1994. More than 1 million people have now fled to
Uganda, mostly from the Yei region. And while there is no tally
for how many people have died in South Sudan, estimates put the
number in the tens or even hundreds of thousands.
Big question for US cities: Is
Amazon’s HQ2 worth the price?
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