NATION/WORLD Thursday, May 21, 2015 East Oregonian Page 7A Oil slicks off California span nine miles least tern, both endangered shore birds, a spokeswoman said. GOLETA, Calif. — An Members of the Inter- oil spill that fouled beaches national Bird Rescue were and threatened wildlife prepared to clean any birds along a scenic stretch of the covered with oil. California coast spread across Environmental groups 9 miles of ocean Wednesday used the spill as an oppor- as cleanup efforts began and tunity to take a shot at fossil federal regulators investigated fuels and remind people of the how the pipeline leaked. DUHD¶VQRWRULHW\ZLWKRLOVSLOOV Workers in protective suits “Big Oil comes with big raked and shoveled stinky risks — from drilling to black goo off the beaches, delivery,” said Bob Deans, while boats towed booms spokesman for the Natural into place to corral the two Resources Defense Council. slicks off the Santa Barbara “Santa Barbara learned that coast where a much larger lesson over 40 years ago spill in 1969 — the largest in when offshore drilling led to U.S. waters at the time — is disaster.” credited with giving rise to Large offshore rigs still the American environmental dot the horizon off the coast, movement. pumping crude to shore. The The amount of oil leak occurred in a pipe that released in the latest spill was carrying crude from an was unknown, but the pipe onshore facility to another was carrying 84,000 gallons point in the chain of produc- an hour before the leak was tion that eventually leads to a detected, suggesting more UH¿QHU\ oil escaped than the 21,000 Kennth Song/The News-Press via AP The oil spilled into a gallons initially estimated. It took three hours to shut An oil slick washes up on the shore Tuesday near Goleta, Calif. Capt. Dave Zaniboni of the Santa Barbara Coun- culvert running under a down the pipe Tuesday, but ty Fire Department says the pipeline on the land near Refugio State Beach broke Tuesday and spilled oil into a highway and into a storm drain that emptied into the RI¿FLDOVGLGQ¶WVD\KRZORQJLW culvert that ran under the U.S. 101. leaked beforehand or discuss problems and was inspected A combination of soiled from overlooking bluffs. found in the calm seas or ocean. The spill was not expected the rate at which oil escaped about two weeks ago, though beaches and pungent stench “It smells like what they rocky coast by late morning, the pipe. results of that inspection had of petroleum caused state use to pave the roads,” said said Capt. Mark Crossland of to affect gas prices, even Federal regulators from not been analyzed yet, said SDUNV RI¿FLDOV WR FORVH WR Fan Yang, of Indianapolis, the state Department of Fish though the pipeline was out of operation for now, said the Department of Transpor- Darren Palmer, a district Refugio State Beach and El ZKR ZDV KRSLQJ WR ¿QG and Wildlife. tation, which oversees oil manager with the company Capitan State Beach, both cleaner beaches in Santa The department closed Tom Kloza, global head pipeline safety, investigated that owns the pipe, Plains All popular campgrounds west Barbara, about 20 miles away. ¿VKLQJ DQG VKHOO¿VK of energy at the Oil Price WKH OHDN¶V FDXVH WKH SLSH¶V American Pipeline LP. of Santa Barbara, over the ³,¶P VDG IRU WKH ELUGV ² LI harvesting for a mile east and Information Service. In condition and the potential “Plains is taking respon- Memorial Day weekend. they lose their habitat.” west of Refugio beach and it fact, Californians probably regulatory violations. sibility and paying for every- Still, tourists were drawn Environmental damage deployed booms to protect the will see prices drop because The 24-inch pipe built thing associated with this WR SXOO RII WKH 3DFL¿F &RDVW ZDVDQWLFLSDWHGEXWGHDG¿VK nesting and foraging habitat crude has dropped 60 cents in 1991 had no previous spill,” Palmer said. Highway to eye the disaster and oily birds had not been of the snowy plover and the in the past week, Kloza said. Associated Press Nebraska votes to abolish death penalty BRIEFLY U.S. releases hundreds of bin Laden documents WASHINGTON (AP) — Documents swept up in the raid on Osama bin /DGHQ¶VFRPSRXQGSRUWUD\ a leader cut off from his underlings, disappointed by their failures, beset by their complaints and regretting years of separation from much of his extensive family. )RFXV\RXU¿JKWLQJRQ America, not each other, the sidelined al-Qaida chief exhorts his followers. In a videotaped will, he urges one of his wives, should she remarry after his death, to still choose to live beside him in paradise. He also directs her to send their son WRWKHEDWWOH¿HOG Despite some surprising quirks in the collection, the overall message of the 103 letters, videos and reports made public Wednesday KHZVWRWKHWHUURUJURXS¶V familiar mission: In the QDPHRI*RG¿QGDZD\ to kill Americans. Kill Europeans. 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The documents, as translated by U.S. LQWHOOLJHQFHRI¿FLDOVPL[ the mundane language of business — personnel training, budget matters, ¿QDQFLQJIRU³ZRUNVKRSV and collaborating groups” — with fervent religious appeals and updates on terrorism plots, all written LQÀRZHU\ODQJXDJHIXOORI praise for God. The documents include D¿OOLQWKHEODQNVMRE application for al-Qaida candidates that not only asks typical human resources questions about education and hobbies but also, “Do you wish to execute a suicide operation?” It requests an emergency contact should the applicant become a martyr. DEA raids clinics, pharmacies in 4 Southern states LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Authorities raided medical clinics, pharmacies and other locations across the South on Wednesday as part of a Drug Enforcement Administration attempt to thwart illegal prescription drug sales. 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Foreign legion ¿JKWVIRU,VODPLF State; West fears it will spawn global terror web PANKISI GORGE, Georgia (AP) — One day this April, instead of coming home from school, two teenagers left their valley high in the Caucasus, and went off to war. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, a 20-year-old VWROHKHUIULHQG¶VSDVVSRUWWR make the same hazardous journey. From New Zealand, came a former security guard; from Canada, a hockey fan ZKRORYHGWR¿VKDQGKXQW And there have been many, many more: between 16,000 and 17,000, according to one independent Western estimate, men and a small number of women from 90 countries or more who have streamed to Syria and Iraq to wage Muslim holy war for the Islamic State. Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, WKHJURXS¶VOHDGHUKDV appealed to Muslims throughout the world to move to lands under its FRQWURO²WR¿JKWEXWDOVR to work as administrators, doctors, judges, engineers and scholars, and to marry, put down roots and start families. LINCOLN, Neb. 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