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Page 8A NATION/WORLD East Oregonian Saturday, February 20, 2016 U.S. would let Apple keep software to help FBI hack iPhone Pentagon says U.S. bombed IS training camp in Libya By ROBERT BURNS AND MAGGIE MICHAEL Associated Press WASHINGTON — American )( ¿JKWHUERPEHUV VWUXFN DQ Islamic State training camp in rural Libya near the Tunisian border Friday, killing dozens, probably including an IS operative considered responsible for deadly attacks in Tunisia last year, U.S. DQGORFDORI¿FLDOVVDLG7KHVWULNHGLG not appear to mark the beginning of a sustained U.S. campaign in Libya but a Pentagon spokesman said “it may not be the last.” The spokesman, Peter Cook, said the U.S. is determined to stop the Islamic State from “gaining traction” in Libya. Cook said the training camp was “relatively new,” and that the U.S. has LGHQWL¿HGVLPLODU,VODPLF6WDWHWUDLQLQJ camps elsewhere in Libya, suggesting potential future strikes in defense of regional and U.S. national security interests. ,Q /LE\D ORFDO RI¿FLDOV HVWLPDWHG that Friday’s U.S. attack killed more than 40 people with more wounded, some critically. Up to 60 people were believed to be at the camp, said a 86RI¿FLDOVSHDNLQJRQFRQGLWLRQRI anonymity to discuss intelligence-re- lated information. Political chaos in Libya has allowed the Islamic State to expand across the northern coast of the oil-rich North African country, which is just across the Mediterranean from Italy and has also become a major conduit for African migrants heading to Europe. IS controls the central city of Sirte and a number of oil installations. Adding to the concern in Washington and Europe is evidence that the number RI ,VODPLF 6WDWH ¿JKWHUV LQ /LE\D LV increasing — now believed to be about ²HYHQDVWKHJURXS¶VQXPEHUV in Syria and Iraq are shrinking. The Obama administration has said it would approve of international military support for counter-Islamic State efforts in Libya once the country assembles a unity government. But it also has vowed to strike key targets when opportunities arise, such as Friday’s attack near the city of Sabratha. The Libyan parliament is close to endorsing a new unity government cabinet, which could eventually seek international military intervention against Islamic State extremists. Cook said the U.S. airstrikes targeted extremist Noureddine Chouchane, a Tunisian national. Cook called him “an ISIL senior facilitator in Libya associated with the training camp,” using another acronym for the Islamic State. &RRN GLG QRW FRQ¿UP WKDW Chouchane had been killed but said “we feel good” about the effectiveness RIWKHDWWDFNZKLFKRWKHURI¿FLDOVVDLG ZHUHFRQGXFWHGE\)(VWULNHDLUFUDIW based in Britain. Cook said unmanned aircraft, or drones, also were involved. &RRN VDLG 7XQLVLDQ RI¿FLDOV LQ 0D\KDGQDPHG&KRXFKDQHDVD VXVSHFWLQD0DUFKDWWDFNRQ the Bardo Museum in Tunis in which 22 people died. Scalia laid to rest AP Photo/Evan Vucci The body of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia arrives at the Supreme Court in Washington on Friday. Thousands of mourners will pay their respects Friday for Justice Antonin Scalia as his casket rests in the Great Hall of the Supreme Court, where he spent nearly three decades as one of its most inluential members. Clinton vs Sanders in Nevada primary: Urban vs rural LAS VEGAS (AP) — Seeking an edge, Hillary Clinton courted voters throughout Las Vegas’ sprawling population centers on Friday while rival Bernie Sanders barnstormed across northern Nevada in search of delegates in the state’s high-stakes Demo- cratic presidential caucuses. The divergent scenes offered evidence of the two paths Clinton and Sanders are following as they furi- ously stump for every vote before Saturday’s Nevada caucuses. Clinton is hoping minorities and unions in Nevada’s population center give her the edge over Sanders, while the Vermont democratic socialist aims to drive up turnout in the state’s more lightly-pop- ulated northern region to claim victory. Sanders’ strategy is driven in part because Nevada Democrats allocate delegates to caucus winners based on congressional districts, giving greater weight to sparsely populated areas like Elko. Obama lost the popular vote to Clinton in the 2008 contest here but the quirky nature of the caucus enabled him to emerge with one more delegate than Clinton. Neither candidate is pursuing a single-track strategy. Clinton canceled a trip to Florida on Monday to campaign in Elko and Reno and her campaign KDV GHYRWHG VLJQL¿FDQW UHVRXUFHV EXLOGLQJ D ¿HOG operation even in the most remote reaches of the states. Sanders has especially focused on wooing Las Vegas’ minority population, especially young people, both to win votes and to counter the Clinton critique that he only appeals to white voters. Campaigning in Elko, Sanders steered clear of raising high expectations During a round-table event about women and family issues at the College of Southern Nevada, Clinton said the election should not be “a theoretical discussion” but a “down-to- earth” discussion about how to make child care more affordable for families. In Reno, former Presi- dent Bill Clinton responded to Sanders’ recent assertions that the Clinton admin- istration’s trade policies and welfare reform during the 1990s ultimately hurt minorities. “There’s been a lot of passion in this primary,” the ex-president said. “Hillary’s opponent jumped all over me last night about how bad I’ve been for African-Americans and poor people. Let me just say this, that campaign has been remarkably fact-free. A lot of the numbers don’t add up.” The Clinton campaign tried to keep hammering her appeal with black voters on Friday as it unveiled the endorsement of Rep. James Clyburn, the top Democrat from the next state on the early voting calendar, South Carolina. Clyburn’s endorsement underscored Clinton’s strength in South Carolina among the state’s African-American commu- nity. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration told a U.S. magistrate judge on Friday it would be willing to allow Apple Inc. to retain possession of and later destroy specialized software it has been ordered to design to help the FBI hack into an encrypted iPhone used by the gunman in December’s mass shootings in California. The government made clear that it was open to less intrusive options in a new OHJDO¿OLQJLQWHQGHGWREOXQW public criticism by Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, who said the software would be “too dangerous to create” because it would threaten the digital privacy of millions of iPhone customers world- wide. “Apple may maintain custody of the software, destroy it after its purpose under the order has been served, refuse to disseminate it outside of Apple and make clear to the world that it does not apply to other devices or users without lawful court orders,” the Justice Depart- ment told Judge Sheri Pym. “No one outside Apple would have access to the software required by the order unless Apple itself chose to share it.” In the latest volley between the federal govern- ment and one of the world’s most respected companies, the Justice Department argued that Apple has the technical ability to comply with a court order issued this week — but won’t do so because of its marketing strategy. “Apple has attempted to design and market its prod- ucts to allow technology, rather than the law, to control access to data which has been found by this court to be warranted for an important LQYHVWLJDWLRQ´ WKH ¿OLQJ states. The Justice Department’s motion, which seeks to force Apple to comply with Pym’s order, appears aimed at rebutting some of the key objections of Apple and its supporters. BRIEFLY Last of ‘Angola Three’ inmates released, thanks supporters ST. FRANCISVILLE, La. (AP) — The last inmate of a group known as the “Angola Three” pleaded no contest Friday to manslaughter in the 1972 death of a prison guard and was released after more than four decades in prison, UDLVLQJDFOHQFKHG¿VWDVKHZDONHGIUHH Albert Woodfox and two other men became known as the “Angola Three” for their decades-long stays in isolation at the Louisiana Penitentiary at Angola and other prisons. Their cases drew condemnation from human rights groups DQGIRFXVHGDWWHQWLRQRQWKHXVHRIVROLWDU\FRQ¿QHPHQWLQ American prisons. 2I¿FLDOVVDLGWKH\ZHUHNHSWLQVROLWDU\EHFDXVHWKHLU Black Panther Party activism would otherwise rile up inmates at the maximum-security prison farm in Angola. Woodfox consistently maintained his innocence in the killing of guard Brent Miller. He was being held at the West Feliciana Parish Detention Center in St. Francisville, about 30 miles north of Baton Rouge. He was awaiting a third trial in Miller’s death after earlier convictions were thrown out by federal courts for reasons including racial bias in selecting a grand jury foreman. Woodfox, who turned 69 on the same day he was UHOHDVHGVSRNHWRUHSRUWHUVDQGVXSSRUWHUVEULHÀ\RXWVLGHWKH jail before driving off with his brother. Speaking of his future plans, he said he wanted to visit his mother’s gravesite. She died while he was in prison, and Woodfox said he was not allowed to go to the funeral. As to whether he would have done anything differently back in 1972, Woodfox responded: “When forces are beyond your control, there’s not a lot you can do. Angola was a very KRUULEOHSODFHDWWKHWLPHDQGHYHU\ERG\ZDVMXVW¿JKWLQJWR survive from day to day.” Record number of astronaut wannabes apply to NASA — 18,300 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space travel never looked so good. NASA announced Friday it received a record number of applicants — some 18,300 — for its next astronaut class. That’s more than double the previous record of 8,000 for the ¿UVWVSDFHVKXWWOHDVWURQDXWFODVVLQ7KLVWLPH1$6$ hit social media hard to promote the openings. The odds of getting picked are small; only eight to 14 Americans will be chosen. NASA expects it will take 1½ years to whittle down the list. Candidates need to be U.S. citizens with a bachelor’s degree in science, math or engineering. “It’s not at all surprising to me that so many Americans from diverse backgrounds want to personally contribute to blazing the trail on our journey to Mars,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a former space shuttle commander, said in a statement. Like the eight-member Class of 2013, the future DVWURQDXWVZLOOWUDLQWRÀ\WRWKH,QWHUQDWLRQDO6SDFH6WDWLRQ on capsules under development by SpaceX and Boeing, as well as on NASA’s Orion spacecraft intended for deep-space exploration. NASA aims to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030s. The two-month application period closed Thursday. The ¿UVWDVWURQDXWFODVVZDVWKH0HUFXU\FKRVHQLQ OREGON MANUFACTURERS. LOCAL BUSINESSES. YOUR NEIGHBORS. ALL GETTING MORE FROM THEIR ENERGY. Here in Oregon, thousands of businesses and individuals are saving money with help from Energy Trust of Oregon. With cash incentives for energy improvements, we can help you get more from your energy. + Are you ready to get more from your energy? Visit www.energytrust.org/more or call us at 1.866.368.7878. Serving customers of Portland General Electric, Pacific Power, NW Natural and Cascade Natural Gas.
