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tractors were wounded
— none with life-threat-
ening injuries, a U.S.
State Department official
said.
“I have been to many
attacks, taken wounded
people out of many blast
sites, but I can say I have
ever seen such a horrible
attack as I saw this morn-
ing,” ambulance driver
I have been to many attacks,
taken wounded people out
of many blast sites, but I can
say I have ever seen such a
horrible attack as I saw this
morning
Alef Ahmadzai told The
Associated Press. “Ev-
erywhere was on fire and
so many people were in
critical condition.”
There was no claim of
responsibility for the at-
tack, which came in the
first week of the Muslim
holy month of Ramadan.
The Taliban flatly denied
any involvement in an
email to news outlets and
condemned all attacks
against civilians.
The explosives were
hidden in a tanker truck
used to clean out septic
systems, said Najib Dan-
ish, deputy spokesman
for the interior minister.
The number of dead and
wounded was provided
by the Afghan govern-
ment’s media center, cit-
ing a statement from the
Afghan Ulema Council,
the country’s top reli-
gious body that includes
Muslim clerics, scholars
and men of authority in
religion and law.
The blast gouged a cra-
ter about 5 meters (15
feet) deep near Zanbaq
Square in the Wazir Ak-
bar Khan district, where
foreign embassies are
protected by a battery of
their own security per-
sonnel as well as Afghan
Vanport
partners.
“The terrorists, even
in the holy month of
Ramadan, the month of
goodness, blessing and
prayer, are not stopping
the killing of our inno-
cent people,” said Presi-
dent Ashraf Ghani.
Afghanistan’s war, the
longest ever involving
U.S. troops, has shown no
sign of letting up, and the
introduction into the bat-
tle of an Islamic State af-
filiate has made the coun-
try only more volatile.
Although they are
small in number, mili-
tants from the Islamic
State in Khorasan — an
ancient name for parts
of Afghanistan, Iran
and Central Asia — have
taken credit for several
brazen assaults on the
capital.
“Let’s be clear: This is
an intelligence failure,
as has been the case with
so many other attacks in
Kabul and beyond. There
was a clear failure to an-
ticipate a major security
threat in a highly se-
cured area,” said Michael
Kugelman of the U.S.-
based Wilson Center.
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New Faubion School, the first newly constructed Portland Public
School in two decades, announced a partnership May 23 with
Concordia University Facility and Kaiser Permanente at 3039
Northeast Rosa Parks Way. Workers broke ground on the new
school, which opens in the fall of 2017, last month.
Attack
Left to right: Kimberely Dixon, Faubion Principal Jen McCalley,
Concordia University Gary Withers, Kaiser Permanente
Northwest Dr. Imelda Dacones, Tracy Dannen-Grace, Concordia’s
Sarah Sweitzer.
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away shortly after the incident
at a local hospital. Fletcher was
treated for his injuries and re-
leased from a hospital Tuesday.
Christian was apprehended at
the scene, and according to the
affidavit released by the Mult-
nomah County Circuit Court
Tuesday, he confessed to the
crimes in the back of the police
car: “I just stabbed a bunch of (ex-
pletive) in their neck.”
The state has charged Christian
with two counts of aggravated
murder, one count of attempted
aggravated murder; one count of
first-degree assault; three counts
of unlawful use of a weapon; and
two counts of intimidation in
the second degree. At a Saturday
press conference Multnomah
County district attorney noted
aggravated murder is “a capital
offense in Oregon.”
Witnesses say the incident took
place just as a Green Line train
bound for Clackamas Town Cen-
ter pulled into the Hollywood
Transit Center, and that imme-
diately afterward, Christian
de-boarded the train and fled into
the Hollywood neighborhood.
A passenger’s video of Chris-
tian’s arrest shows him shouting
at police and drinking out of a
container before being appre-
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with 42 incidents – half of which
were reported in Portland.
A spokesperson for the SPLC
told The Skanner the organiza-
tion only began tracking hate in-
cidents starting after the election.
The Portland Police Bureau’s in-
Christian will most likely die in prison
since our state has not executed any-
one against their will since Kennedy
was president
hended.
Friday’s slayings made national
headlines along with a string of
gruesome crimes targeting mi-
norities.
In December, the Southern
Poverty Law Center reported
more than 1,000 hate incidents
took place nationwide in the first
weeks after Donald Trump was
elected to the Presidency. The re-
port, which tracks the number of
incidents between Nov. 9 and Dec.
12 of that year, notes Oregon had
the highest per capita reporting
teractive crime map allows users
to look at crime broken down by
neighborhood and type of inci-
dent (such as theft, vandalism or
assault) but the map does not in-
clude a category for bias crime —
which can encompass several of
those categories. The bureau was
not able to provide information
on how bias crimes are tracked,
and whether they have increased
in its jurisdiction, in time for The
Skanner’s deadline.
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vivors found it especially difficult
to locate housing in Portland, as city
officials there continued their dis-
criminatory policies of redlining to
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New Faubion School
temporary housing during the Second
World War. Many of its residents were
transient laborers that were employed
to work on the Kaiser shipyards in Port-
African American survivors found it espe-
cially difficult to locate housing in Portland,
as city officials there continued their discrim-
inatory policies
force crowding of African American
residents into the Albina community
— just because the color of their skin,”
Winters said while addressing the Sen-
ate floor on Tuesday.
Stories like Winters’ are recounted
in “The Wake of Vanport” — a series
of short documentaries that capture
the memories of those who lived in
Vanport and survived its demise. The
Skanner Foundation, through its North
Portland Multimedia Training Center,
created the oral history project.
Vanport was built in 1942, largely as
land and in Vancouver, Wash. Vanport
took its name from both cities.
Largely recognized as a center of di-
versity, Vanport was home to some of
the first Black teachers and policemen
in the state during wartime. And while
covering only 650 acres, the city was
self-sustaining, equipped with shop-
ping centers, a hospital, post office, li-
brary, schools, and even a movie theater.
On that fatal day of May 30, 1948 —
shortly after 4 p.m. — a 200-foot section
of the dike holding back the Columbia
River collapsed, drowning Vanport in
less than two hours.
The loss of property
totaled millions of
dollars.
Today, Delta Park
rests on the former
site of Vanport. But
through an effort of
community mem-
bers, historians and
survivors, a peti-
tion and campaign
has been launched
to change the name Survivors gather on high ground to watch the destruction of Vanport after
of the park to Van- the flood on May 30, 1948.
port.
ed at the airport in Josephine County.
This year, the State Senate recognized
The legislative assembly also com-
two additional hallmarks of Oregon’s memorated the 75th anniversary of
wartime history.
the internment of Japanese Americans
The “Triple Nickles” were a Black with Senate Concurrent Resolution
World War II paratrooper unit that de- 14. It acknowledges the injustice, pain
ployed to Pendleton Field, Oregon near and suffering inflicted on Japanese
the end of war. In their honor, a marker Americans during World War II and
will be unveiled on June 3 at the Siskiy- recognizes Feb. 19 as a national Day of
ou Smokejumper Base Museum, locat- Remembrance.
PHOTO BY ALLEN DELAY (1915-2005) ©THOMAS ROBINSON
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police and National Secu-
rity Forces. The nearby
German Embassy was
heavily damaged.
Also in the area is Af-
ghanistan’s
Foreign
Ministry, the Presiden-
tial Palace and its in-
telligence and security
headquarters, guarded
by soldiers trained by
the U.S. and its coalition
PHOTOS BY JERRY FOSTER
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