Northwest Herald / NWHerald.com • Section B • Friday, June 13, 2014 •
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Sunni militants vow to march on Iraqi capital The ASSOCIATED PRESS BAGHDAD – Islamic militants who seized cities and towns vowed Thursday to march on Baghdad to settle old scores, joined by Saddam Hussein-era loyalists and other disaffected Sunnis capitalizing on the government’s political paralysis over the biggest threat to Iraq’s stability since the U.S. withdrawal. Trumpeting their victory, the militants also declared they would impose Shariah law in Mosul and other areas
they have captured. In northern Iraq, Kurdish security forces moved to fill the power vacuum – taking over an air base and other posts abandoned by the military in the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk. The move further raised concern the country could end up partitioned into Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish zones. Three planeloads of Americans were being evacuated from a major Iraqi air base in Sunni territory north of Baghdad, U.S. officials said, and
ing the growing international alarm over the stunning advances by fighters from the militant group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, the council president, said the U.N. envoy in Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, told members by videoconference that “there is no immediate danger of the violence spreading to Baghdad” – that the city “is well protected and the government is in control.” Prime Minister Nouri
Germany urged its citizens to immediately leave parts of Iraq, including Baghdad. President Barack Obama said Iraq will need more help from the United States, but he did not specify what it would be willing to provide. Senior U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter by name said Washington is considering whether to conduct drone missions in Iraq. The U.N. Security Council met on the crisis, underscor-
al-Maliki had asked parliament to declare a state of emergency that would give him and his Shiite-led government increased powers to run the country, but the lawmakers failed to assemble a quorum. The Islamic State, whose Sunni fighters have captured large swaths of territory in Iraq and Syria, aims to create an Islamic emirate spanning both sides of the border. It has pushed deep into parts of Iraq’s Sunni heartland once controlled by U.S. forces because police and military
forces melted away after relatively brief clashes, including in Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul. Skirmishes continued in several areas. Two communities near Tikirt – the key oil refining center of Beiji and the city of Samarra, home to a prominent Shiite shrine – remained in government hands, according to Iraqi intelligence officials. The price of oil jumped to above $106 a barrel as the insurgency raised the risk of disruptions to supplies.
Police, World Cup protesters clash U.S. drone strikes The ASSOCIATED PRESS SAO PAULO – Protesters and Brazilian police clashed in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and at least three other World Cup cities on Thursday ahead of the first match of soccer’s premier event. Just after the match started, about 300 protesters demonstrating against the World Cup marched along Rio’s Copacabana beach and stopped outside the FIFA Fan Fest – a closed and secured area on the beach where hundreds of fans are watching the match on a massive screen. The protesters were carrying banners with slogans knocking the Cup. The protest was peaceful, but there were worries that violence could break out as several adherents to the anarchist “Black Bloc” tactic were seen in the crowd of demonstrators in Copacabana. In Sao Paulo, more than 300 demonstrators gathered along a main highway leading to the stadium in Sao Paulo. Some tried to block traffic, but police repeatedly pushed them back, firing canisters of tear gas and using stun grenades. The flow of traffic to the arena was not blocked.
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A protester is detained by police Thursday during a demonstration demanding better public services and protesting the money spent on the World Cup soccer tournament in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Later, a group of fewer than 100 protesters gathered near a subway stop about 8 miles west of the stadium. No protests reported near the arena itself. A few protesters suffered injuries after being hit by rubber bullets, while others were seen choking after inhaling tear gas. An Associated Press photographer was injured in the leg after a stun grenade exploded near him. CNN reported on its website that two of its journalists were also injured.
“I’m totally against the Cup,” said protester Tameres Mota, a university student at the Sao Paulo demonstration. “We’re in a country where the money doesn’t go to the community, and meanwhile we see all these millions spent on stadiums.” In the crowd were anarchist adherents to the “Black Bloc” tactic of protest, a violent form of demonstration and vandalism that emerged in the 1980s in West Germany and helped shut down the 1999 World Trade Summit in
Seattle. Such Black Bloc protesters have frequently squared off against police in several Brazilian cities in the past year, as a drumbeat of anti-government demonstrations have continued since a massive wave of protests hit Brazil last year. Meanwhile, about 300 protesters gathered in central Rio de Janeiro in another demonstration against the World Cup. Police started using tear gas and took a few protesters there into custody, as marchers took to streets to denounce lavish public spending on a sports tournament in a nation with profound social needs. But that protest also mostly dissipated a few hours before the match. In Belo Horizonte, another Cup host city, about 200 protesters clashed with police at a rally against the event in a central plaza. Some demonstrators smashed the glass doors and windows of two banks. The protest has started peacefully but escalated, with the violence forcing at least one nearby hotel to shut its doors and ask guests not to go outside.
U.K. court says terror trial can be partly secret By JILL LAWLESS The Associated Press LONDON – A British court ruled Thursday that the bulk of a terrorism trial can be held in secret on national security grounds, but rejected prosecutors’ attempt to impose secrecy on the entire case, from the selection of the jury to the identity of the defendants. Media organizations had argued that would be a first in British legal history, and a dangerous precedent. The case concerns two men who were arrested last year and charged with terrorism offenses. Prosecutors argued they would have to abandon the case if the trial could not
be held in private and without naming the defendants. Last month a judge agreed to the restrictions, but the ruling was challenged by the BBC and other media organizations. Their lawyer, Anthony Hudson, called the secrecy bid a “totally unprecedented departure from the principle of open justice.” On Thursday three appeals judges ruled that the case was “exceptional,” and that the core of the trial should be heard without the public present. They said they were convinced that “the administration of justice would be frustrated if the trial were to be held in open court.” But, in a victory for the media, they said some sections
would be held in public, including the jury swearing-in, the reading of the charges, part of the prosecution’s opening statement and the verdicts. A small number of journalists will be allowed to attend most of the proceedings, but not to report on them as they unfold. They will be subject to strict restrictions, including leaving their notebooks behind at the end of each day, and will not be able to report on the trial until a new court order is given. The judges expressed “grave concern” about combining closed hearings with anonymous defendants and ordered that the names of the suspects be released. The defendants, previous-
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