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Page 8A NATION/WORLD East Oregonian BRIEFLY Al-Qaida’s No. 2 ¿JXUHNLOOHGLQ86 VWULNHLQ<HPHQ CAIRO (AP) — A U.S. airstrike has killed Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader, who commanded its SRZHUIXO<HPHQLDI¿OLDWH dealing the global network its biggest blow since the killing of Osama bin Laden and eliminating a charismatic leader at a time when it is vying with the Islamic State group for the mantle of global jihad. Nasir al-Wahishi is the latest in a series of senior ¿JXUHVIURPDO4DLGD¶V Yemen branch eliminated by U.S. drone strikes the SDVW¿YHPRQWKVLQFOXGLQJ its top ideologue and a senior military commander. 7KH86KDVLQWHQVL¿HGLWV campaign, trying to push back the group as it has captured new territory in Yemen by taking advantage of the southern Arabian nation’s chronic chaos. The US activity against al-Qaida is also not limited to Yemen. Over the weekend, a U.S. airstrike in Libya targeted an al-Qaida- linked militant commander, Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who led a 2013 attack on an Algerian gas complex that killed 35 hostages including several Americans. US RI¿FLDOVDUHVWLOOWU\LQJWR FRQ¿UPZKHWKHUKHZDV killed in the raid. Al-Wahishi was a former aide to bin Laden who, after WKHDO4DLGDDI¿OLDWHLQ Saudi Arabia was crushed in the mid-2000s, rebuilt it in his homeland Yemen and turned it into the terror network’s most dangerous branch. The Yemeni branch, known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, claimed responsibility for January’s attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that killed 12 people. It also attempted several direct attacks on the United States including the botched 2009 plot to bomb an American passenger jet. &RROUDLQ\ ZHDWKHUKLQGHUV KXQWIRUORRVH NLOOHUVRQ'D\ DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — Search teams hindered by cool, rainy weather combed through woods for an 11th day trying to track down two escaped murderers on Tuesday as RQHRI¿FLDOUDLVHGGRXEWV the escapees relied solely on a now-jailed prison worker to help them get away after their breakout. More than 800 law HQIRUFHPHQWRI¿FHUVZKR are searching for convicts David Sweat and Richard Matt shifted their focus eastward along Route 374 leading from the village of Dannemora, home of the Clinton Correctional Facility, in far northern New York. State police said Tuesday the manhunt will be expanded beyond where it’s been most intense, 16 square PLOHVRIZRRGV¿HOGVDQG swamps around a road where search dogs caught the scent of both men and searchers found evidence indicating they may have spent time there. Clinton County Sheriff David Favro said rain has been washing away any VFHQWGRJVPLJKW¿QGDQG interfering with thermal imaging devices being used to detect body heat. Matt and Sweat escaped June 6 from the maximum- security prison near the Canadian border. Sweat, 35, was serving a life sentence without parole in the killing of a sheriff’s deputy. Matt, 48, was doing 25 years to life for the kidnap, torture and hacksaw dismemberment of his former boss. Meanwhile, the prison worker charged with providing the killers with hacksaw blades, chisels and other tools was visited in jail by her husband. 5XVVLDWR DGGQHZ LQWHUFRQWLQHQWDO PLVVLOHVWKLV\HDU MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s military will add over 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles this year alone that are capable of piercing any missile defenses, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday in a blunt reminder of the nation’s nuclear might amid tensions with the West over Ukraine. Putin spoke at the opening of an arms show at a shooting range in Alabino just west of Moscow, a huge display intended to showcase Russia’s resurgent military. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg accused the Russians of “nuclear saber-rattling,” and said that was one of the reasons the western military alliance has EHHQEHH¿QJXSLWVDELOLW\WR defend its members. U.S. Secretary of 6WDWH-RKQ.HUU\EULH¿QJ reporters via teleconference from Boston, where he is recovering from surgery on a broken leg, called Putin’s announcement concerning. “We’re trying to move in the opposite direction,” Kerry said. “We have had enormous cooperation from the 1990s forward with respect to the structure of nuclear weapons in the former territories of the Soviet Union. And no one wants to see us step backwards.” He said Putin could be posturing. “It’s really hard to tell,” Kerry said. “But nobody should hear that kind of an announcement from the leader of a powerful country and not be concerned about the implications.” Russia-West relations have plunged to their lowest point since Cold War times over Moscow’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and support for a separatist insurgency in eastern Ukraine. Wednesday, June 17, 2015 &KRRVLQJ\RXURZQ 'H¿QLWLRQRIUDFHEHFRPLQJÀXLG Associated Press WASHINGTON — Rachel Dolezal, born to white parents, VHOILGHQWL¿HV DV EODFN ² D GHFLVLRQ WKDW LOOXVWUDWHV KRZ ÀXLG LGHQWLW\ FDQ be in a diversifying America, as the ULJLGUDFLDOVWUXFWXUHVWKDWKDYHGH¿QHG most of this country’s history seem, for some, to be softening. Dolezal resigned as the leader of the NAACP’s Spokane, Washington, branch after questions surfaced about her racial identity. When asked directly on NBC’s “Today” show Tuesday whether she is “an African-American woman,” Dolezal replied, “I identify as black.” +HUSDUHQWVLGHQWL¿HGKHUDVZKLWH with a trace of Native American heritage, and her mother, Ruthanne Dolezal, has said Rachel began to “disguise herself” as black after her parents adopted four black children more than a decade ago. 'ROH]DO LVQ¶W WKH ¿UVW SHUVRQ WR make this type of change. Millions of Americans changed racial or ethnic identities between the 2000 and 2010 censuses, even though their choices may have contradicted what their skin color appeared to be, or who their parents said they are. “It forces us to really question whether or not this biological basis for identity is a smart path to continue down in the future,” said Camille Gear Rich, a University of Southern California law and sociology professor who writes about elective race choices. Americans have become comfort- able with people self-identifying their race, Rich said, “but often that invoca- tion of identity based on a biological claim isn’t backed up by anything else after the claim is made.” In the United States, there is an expectation that people would have a biological connection to a racial or an ethnic identity they are claiming, said Nikki Khanna, a University of Vermont sociology professor. She co-authored a 2010 study that found increasing numbers of biracial adults were choosing to self-identify as multi- racial or black instead of white. “There really is no biological basis to race, but what I’m saying is that in our society the everyday person tends to think race must have some link to ancestry,” Khanna said. “So we expect that when people self-identify with a particular group they must have some ancestral link to that group.” Anthony Quintano/NBC News via AP In this image released by NBC News, former NAACP leader Rachel Dolezal appears on the “Today” show during an interview with co-host Matt Lauer Tuesday in New York. “I identify as black.” — Racheal Dolezal, Former leader of the Spokane, Wash. NAACP In the past, race was determined mostly by what other people thought a person was. For example, the Census Bureau’s enumerators would deter- mine on their own what a person’s race was, and classify them as such. By the VDQGVFHQVXVRI¿FLDOVZHUH allowing people to self-identify. Currently, the Census Bureau allows people to choose a racial category, or even multiple categories, to which they think they belong. 7KH FHQVXV LGHQWL¿HV UDFHV DV ZKLWH EODFNRU$IULFDQ$PHULFDQ$PHULFDQ ,QGLDQRU$ODVND1DWLYH$VLDQ1DWLYH +DZDLLDQ RU 2WKHU 3DFL¿F ,VODQGHU and “some other race” for those claiming more than one race. There is also a Hispanic ethnic category. People have been using that freedom since the early 2000s to move back and forth. They switched between races, moved from multiple races to a single race or back, or decided to add or drop Hispanic ethnicity from their LGHQWL¿HUVRQFHQVXVIRUPV Last year, a study showed that 1 in 16 people — or approximately 9.8 million of 162 million — who responded to both the 2000 and 2010 censuses gave different answers when it came to race and ethnicity. In addi- tion, in the 2010 census, more than 21.7 million — at least 1 in 14 — went beyond the standard labels and wrote “Arab,” “Haitian,” “Mexican” and “multiracial.” Dolezal, 37, said Tuesday that SXEOLVKHGDFFRXQWVGHVFULEHGKHU¿UVW as “transracial,” then “biracial,” then as “a black woman.” “I never corrected that,” she conceded, adding that “it’s more complex than being true or false in that particular instance.” She and her parents have disagreed about her backstory. Dolezal says she started identifying as black around age 5, when she drew self-portraits with a brown crayon. Her mother told Fox News on Tuesday that’s not true. Dolezal has gotten support from some in the black community, who say she should be allowed to self-identify as she pleases. However, other Afri- can-Americans say she is “passing” — a term mainly used to describe blacks who looked white enough to deny their African ancestry — and should not claim a racial identity that she cannot prove. She isn’t the only person who has faced that accusation. An opponent of Houston Community College trustee Dave Wilson complained that campaign mailings Wilson sent to voters in the predominantly black district implied Wilson, who is white, was black. U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts faced questions about her Native American ancestry during her last election after being listed as such in several law school directories. Some people have used their ability to self-identify as another race simply to get access to resources aimed at minorities, Rich said, but “race is something that is a social contract and it is not something that you just passively inhabit.” Where would you go if you died today? WHAT GOD SAYS: 1. You have sinned against God: “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23) 2. There is a penalty for your sin: “For the wages of sin is death.” (Romans 6:23a) “And Death and Hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. 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