NATION/WORLD
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
East Oregonian
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Clinton says no email apology:
‘What I did
was allowed’
By CATHERINE LUCEY
Associated Press
AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris
A Syrian family react after arrived with others aboard a dinghy from Turkey, on the island of Lesbos, Greece on
Monday.. The island of some 100,000 residents has been transformed by the sudden new population of some
20,000 refugees and migrants, mostly from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Migrants stranded on Greek island
By HAMZA HENDAWI
Associated Press
MYTILENE, Greece —
It was supposed to be the
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Western Europe. But now
thousands of migrants are
mired in despair, anger and
frustration on the scenic
Greek island of Lesbos.
After perilous sea voyages
from neighboring Turkey,
they have been stranded here
for days, some for nearly two
weeks, running out of money
and desperate to get to main-
land Greece and continue
their route.
The island of some
100,000
residents
has
been transformed by the
sudden new population of
some 20,000 refugees and
migrants, mostly from Syria,
Iraq and Afghanistan — and
the strain is pushing everyone
to the limit.
Fights break out among the
migrants as they wait in long
lines for hours in the summer
heat and humidity, after days
without showers. Families,
sleeping on the streets, wander
the seaside promenade of
Mytilene, Lesbos’ capital,
asking at the swanky cafes
and restaurants to use their
bathrooms or charge phones.
The small police force, over-
whelmed by the numbers,
charges in at any sign of
trouble, beating crowds with
batons to break them up.
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be met with more ruin here,”
said Mohammed Salama, a
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the Damascus suburbs where
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seeking a refuge so he can
bring his four daughters and
pregnant wife who remained
behind.
“I did not come here
to make money,” he said
Sunday. “I came here so I can
later bring my children and
have them live in safety.”
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Greek islands hugging the
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stop for many of those trying
to reach Western Europe.
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document. Without that
document, they can’t buy a
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A Greek policeman tries to put migrants and refugees
waiting for a registration procedure in a line, at the
port of northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Greece,
on Saturday.
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among the hot, exhausted
crowds, often met by
police swinging batons and
shouting, “Pisso!” — Greek
for “go away.”
The nerves of Lesbos
residents as well are fraying.
Drivers blast their horns
in fury at migrants walking
in the middle of the streets
by Mytilene’s port. Some
passers-by roll their eyes
disapprovingly. Many put on
surgical masks when they pass
through the area, convinced
the new arrivals are bringing
disease. On Saturday, two
elderly men walked among
the overwhelmingly Muslim
migrants handing out copies
of the Bible in Arabic.
Others complain about
the litter — bottles, plastic
bags and cardboard thrown
into the sea and covering the
streets around the port.
“Why, man? Why?” one
municipality worker, pointing
to bottles in the sea, yelled at
some young Iraqis sitting by
the water throwing bread to
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There are also acts of
courtesy and kindness.
Sitting outside a hotel having
a morning coffee, a Greek
woman in her 60s was met
by an endless stream of
passing Syrians, Iraqis and
Afghans asking her questions
— Where was a pharmacy?
Where do they sell phone
cards? She patiently answered
every one.
Some restaurants let in
women and children to use
their bathrooms. Policemen
sometimes help the elderly,
offering them seats, and when
there are no tensions, they
quietly answer the migrants’
countless questions about
their fate.
Among the refugees and
migrants, confusion reigns.
Lines suddenly form and
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and wait for hours, only to
discover the line was sparked
by a rumor and they were
waiting for nothing.
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converged on one of the
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them and Syrians in the line,
until police rushed in. It turned
out the caravan was empty.
“I admit, we may not be
organized, but the police
don’t have to hit us so hard,”
complained Khaled Ghazal,
a Syrian travelling with a
10-year-old son suffering
from a blood disease. Maysa
Mustafa, a Syrian environ-
mentalist, showed bruises on
her shoulder she said were
from police beatings. Another
Syrian, Ahmed Tawil, had a
black eye.
ROSZKE, Hungary
(AP) — Hundreds of
angry and frustrated
asylum-seekers broke
through police lines
Monday near Hungary’s
southern border with
Serbia and began
marching north toward
Budapest, while Britain
and France pledged to
take in tens of thousands
more refugees to try to
ease the crisis.
As European leaders
debated how to share
responsibility for the more
than 340,000 people from
the Middle East, Africa
and Asia who are already
seeking refuge, Germany
promised to spend billions
of euros in extra aid for
those already there and
those yet to arrive. France
weighed whether increased
airstrikes against Islamic
State militants would help
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But the Hungarian
prime minister scoffed
at a proposed quota
system for refugees in
the 28-member European
Union, saying it wouldn’t
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secured its borders.
Hungary’s inability to
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across its southern border
with Serbia was on graphic
display Monday. Crowds
who had grown tired of
waiting for buses at Hunga-
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center near the border
village of Roszke tore
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advanced down a country
road and walked around
rows of police trying
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offered no resistance as
about half of the 500-strong
crowd reached the M5
highway that connects
Serbia and Hungary. They
headed north along the
shoulder, raising their arms
and chanting “Germany!
Germany!”
Hillary Rodham Clinton
“I take the
responsibilities
of handling
classified
materials very
seriously and
did so.”
— Hillary Rodham
Clinton
she did not apologize
for using a private email
system when asked directly
by NBC, “Are you sorry?”
Asked Monday by the AP
why she won’t directly
apologize, Clinton said:
“What I did was allowed.
It was allowed by the State
Department. The State
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that.”
“I did not send or receive
any information marked
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rials very seriously and did
so.”
Clinton’s efforts to
address the email issue
comes as her chief rival for
the Democratic nomination,
independent Vermont Sen.
Bernie Sanders, exits the
summer surging in still-
quite-early public opinion
polls and drawing massive
crowds to his rallies and
events.
Asked for an example
of how she differs with
Sanders on policy, Clinton
demurred. “I’m going
to keep laying out what
I would do as president,
what I stand for. ... I’m very
much looking forward to
the debates that we’re going
to have and we’ll have
plenty of time to draw those
contrasts.”
Asked when she might
start, Clinton said: “I don’t
have any timing. I’m
talking about what I would
do as president: where I
stand, what I believe.”
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa
— Hillary Rodham Clinton
said Monday she does not
need to apologize for using
a private email account and
server while at the State
Department because “what
I did was allowed.”
In an interview with The
Associated Press during a
Labor Day campaign swing
through Iowa, the front-
runner for the Democratic
presidential
nomination
also said the lingering
questions about her email
practices while serving as
President Barack Obama’s
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not damaged her campaign.
“Not at all. It’s a distrac-
tion, certainly,” Clinton
said. “But it hasn’t in any
way affected the plan for
our campaign, the efforts
we’re making to organize
here in Iowa and elsewhere
in the country. And I still
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the organization and the
message that my campaign
is putting out.”
Yet even in calling the
inquiry into how she used
email as the nation’s top
diplomat a distraction,
Clinton played down how it
has affected her personally
as a candidate.
“As the person who has
been at the center of it,
not very much,” Clinton
said. “I have worked really
hard this summer, sticking
to my game plan about
how I wanted to sort of
reintroduce myself to the
American people.”
As she has often said in
recent weeks, Clinton told
AP it would have been a
“better choice” for her to
use separate email accounts
for her personal and public
business. “I’ve also tried to
not only take responsibility,
because it was my decision,
but to be as transparent as
possible,” Clinton said.
Part of that effort,
Clinton said, is answering
any questions about her
email “in as many different
settings as I can.” She noted
she has sought for nearly
a year to testify before
Congress about the issue,
and that she is now slated to
do so in October.
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