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UNITED NATIONS
(AP) — President Barack
Obama on Tuesday
pledged all possible tools
— military, intelligence
and economic — to defeat
the Islamic State group,
but acknowledged the
extremist group has taken
root in Syria and Iraq, is
resilient and continues to
expand.
Obama hosted a U.N.
gathering of world leaders
working to expand the
battle against terrorism,
a day after he and the
leaders of Russia, China
and Iran addressed the
General Assembly during
its 70th anniversary. The
¿ght against terrorism,
particularly in Syria, has
seized the attention of top
of¿cials, but there has
been no overall agreement
on how to end the conÀict
there.
“I have repeatedly said
that our approach will take
time. This is not an easy
task,” Obama cautioned,
while adding that he was
“ultimately optimistic”
the brutal organization
would be defeated because
it has nothing to offer but
suffering and death.
The meeting also heard
from the Iraqi leader,
who sought more help
against IS in his country,
and learned from Obama
that three more countries
— Nigeria, Tunisia and
Malaysia — were added
to the coalition ¿ghting the
group.
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KABUL, Afghanistan
(AP) — A day after a
strategic northern city
fell to the Taliban, the
insurgents fanned out
in full force Tuesday,
closing roads, throwing up
checkpoints and torching
government buildings
as fearful residents
huddled indoors amid
signs a promised Afghan
counteroffensive was
faltering.
U.S. warplanes carried
out two airstrikes on
Taliban positions, but
government ground
troops sent to try to
retake Kunduz, one of
Afghanistan’s wealthiest
cities, were stalled by
roadblocks and ambushes,
unable to move closer than
about a mile toward their
target.
A NATO of¿cer said
more airstrikes were
unlikely as “all the Taliban
are inside the city and so
are all the people.” He
spoke on condition of
anonymity because he
was not authorized to brief
media on the issue.
His words suggested
the ¿ght to retake the city
would involve painstaking
streetbystreet ¿ghting as
government forces try to
avoid civilian casualties in
retaking control.
The fall of the city of
300,000 inhabitants is a
major setback to President
Ashraf Ghani, who has
staked his presidency
on bringing peace to
Afghanistan and seeking
to draw the Taliban to
peace talks.
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NEW YORK (AP)
— Edward Snowden,
who has confounded U.S.
of¿cials since his abrupt
departure from the country
two years ago, has just
found a new megaphone
in Twitter.
The former National
Security Agency worker
who leaked classi¿ed
documents about
government surveillance
started tweeting Tuesday.
He had more than 185,000
followers an hour after
his ¿rst tweet, “Can you
hear me now?” Six hours
later, he was up to 625,000
followers.
Snowden is following
just one account: tweets
from the National Security
Agency.
The NSA did not
respond to a request for
comment.
Snowden is currently
living in exile in Russia.
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5,000 acres of gently rolling land along
the Big Sioux River. Trailer homes are
scarce and houses have well-trimmed
lawns.
The Santee Sioux hope to use pot
in the same way that many tribes rely
on casinos — to make money for
community services and to provide a
monthly income to tribal members.
Reider hopes marijuana pro¿ts
can fund more housing, an addiction
treatment center and an overhaul of the
clinic. Some members want a 24/7 day
care center for casino workers.
The prosperity that marijuana could
bring to Indian Country comes with
huge caveats. The drug remains illegal
under federal law, and only Congress
can change its status. The administra-
tion that moves into the White House in
2017 could overturn the Justice Depart-
ment’s decision that made marijuana
cultivation possible on tribal lands.
Meanwhile, tribes must follow
strict security measures or risk the
entire operation.
The marijuana cannot leave the
reservation, and every plant in Flan-
dreau’s growing facility will have a
bar code. After being harvested and
processed, it will be sold in sealed
1-gram packages for $12.50 to $15
— about the same price as the illegal
market in Sioux Falls, according to
law enforcement. Consumers will be
allowed to buy only 1 gram — enough
for two to four joints — at a time.
Want another gram? The bar-coded
package of the ¿rst gram must be
returned at the counter.
In the long run, Reider is certain
that the bene¿ts will outweigh the risks
of tribal marijuana enterprises.
The tribe, he said, must “look at
these opportunities because in order
to preserve the past we do have to
advance in the present.”
Associated Press
FLANDREAU, S.D. — The
Santee Sioux tribe has already
proven its business acumen, running
a successful casino, a 120-room hotel
and a 240-head buffalo ranch on the
plains of South Dakota.
But those enterprises have not
been immune to competition and
the lingering effects of the Great
Recession, so the small tribe of 400 is
undertaking a new venture — opening
the nation’s ¿rst marijuana resort on
its reservation. The experiment could
offer a new money-making model for
tribes nationwide seeking economic
opportunities beyond casinos.
Santee Sioux leaders plan to grow
their own pot and sell it in a smoking
lounge that includes a nightclub,
arcade games, bar and food service,
and eventually, slot machines and an
outdoor music venue.
“We want it to be an adult play-
ground,” tribal President Anthony
Reider said. “There’s nowhere else in
America that has something like this.”
The project, according to the tribe,
could generate up to $2 million a
month in pro¿t, and work is already
underway on the growing facility. The
¿rst joints are expected to go on sale
Dec. 31 at a New Year’s Eve party.
The legalization of marijuana on
the Santee Sioux land came in June,
months after the Justice Department
outlined a new policy that allows Indian
tribes to grow and sell marijuana under
the same conditions as some states.
Many tribes are hesitant to jump
into the pot business. And not everyone
in Flandreau, about 45 miles north of
Sioux Falls, believes in the project.
But the pro¿t potential has attracted
the interest of many other tribes, just
as the debut of slot machines and table
AP Photo/Jay Pickthorn
In this photo, marijuana plants grow in the new germinating facility
on the Flandreau Santee Sioux Reservation in Flandreau, S.D..
games almost 27 years ago.
“The vast majority of tribes have
little to no economic opportunity,”
said Blake Trueblood, business
development director at the National
Center for American Indian Enterprise
Development. For those tribes, “this is
something that you might look at and
say, ‘We’ve got to do something.”’
Flandreau’s indoor marijuana farm
is set against a backdrop of soybean
¿elds. If not for a security booth
outside, the building could pass as an
industrial warehouse.
Inside, men are working to grow
more than 30 different strains of the
¿nicky plant, including those with
names like “Gorilla Glue,” “Shot
Glass” and “Big Blue Cheese.”
Pot is prone to mildew and mold,
picky about temperature and pH level
and intolerant to tap water. So the
Santee Sioux have hired Denver-based
consulting ¿rm Monarch America to
teach them the basics.
Tribal leaders from across the
country and South Dakota legislators
will tour the Flandreau facility in
mid-October.
“This is not a Ày-by-night opera-
tion,” said Jonathan Hunt, Monarch’s
vice president and chief grower. Tribal
leaders “want to show the state how
clean, how ef¿cient, how pro¿cient,
safe and secure this is as an operation.
We are not looking to do anything
shady.”
A marijuana resort open to the
public has never been tried in the
U.S. Even in states such as Colorado
and Washington, where pot is fully
legal, consumption in public places is
generally forbidden, although pro-pot
activists are seeking to loosen those
restrictions. Colorado tolerates a
handful of private marijuana clubs.
Unlike the vast reservations in
western South Dakota, where poverty
is widespread, the little-known Flan-
dreau Santee Sioux Reservation is on
Environmental groups seek end to all Arctic Ocean drilling
ANCHORAGE, Alaska
(AP) — Royal Dutch Shell’s
decision to end its quest for
oil in the Arctic waters off
Alaska sparked jubilation
among
environmental
activists, who said Tuesday
that they will seize the oppor-
tunity to seek an end to all
drilling to in the region.
But while Shell’s move
is a de¿nite setback for oil
companies, it does not mean
offshore drilling is dead or
that the Arctic Ocean has any
greater protection now than it
had last week.
Shell’s decision gives
advocates on both sides a
chance to pause and consider
whether Arctic drilling
should continue, said Mike
LeVine of the ocean-advo-
cacy group in Juneau known
as Oceana.
“Meaningful action to
address climate change is
almost certainly going to
mean we can’t keep looking
for oil in remote and expen-
sive places,” LeVine said.
“Rather than investing in
programs like this, we need
to ¿gure out how to transition
away from fossil fuels and
toward sustainable energy.”
Shell announced Monday
that it would abandon explo-
ration in U.S. Arctic waters
“for the foreseeable future”
after a well drilled this
summer in the Chukchi Sea
off the Alaskan coast failed
to ¿nd natural gas and oil in
suf¿cient quantities.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC
spent more than $7 billion on
Arctic offshore development
in the Chukchi and Beaufort
seas and was dogged at every
regulatory level by environ-
mental groups, which feared
that a spill in the harsh
climate would be dif¿cult to
clean up and devastating to
polar bears, walruses, seals
and other wildlife.
The next step for many
environmental
advocates
is to establish “some sort of
binding policy so that these
decisions are not up to oil
companies,” said Cassady
Sharp, spokeswoman for
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