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Monday, November 7, 2011 - 3A
The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom Monday, November 7, 2011 - 3A
NEWS BRIEFS
WARREN, Mich.
Obama campaign
to open two offices
in Michigan
Michigan campaign workers
for President Barack Obama are
openingtwo offices this weekend.
Campaign officials said in a
statement that yesterday marks
the openings of the Macomb
County headquarters in Warren
and the Washtenaw County head-
quarters in Ann Arbor. They join
offices in Detroit, Pontiac, Flint,
Lansing and Kalamazoo.
State campaign spokesman
Clark Pettig says a Grand Rapids
headquarters is expected to open
by the end of the month.
MEDFORD, Ore.
Man indicted for
alleged sniper
attack on school
A federal grand jury has indict-
ed an Oregon man who authori-
ties fear may have been plotting
a sniper attack on a high school
football game.
The indictment filed Friday in
U.S. District Court in Medford
charges 26-year-old Raphael
Enrique Amoroso, of Grants Pass,
with two firearms counts. One
alleges he took a loaded .45-cali-
ber pistol onto the grounds of
Grants Pass High School. The
other alleges he is an illegal mari-
juana user in possession of fire-
arms.
He is scheduled to be arraigned
today.
A judge ordered Amoroso held
without bail after the prosecution
argued that the case raised red
flags suggesting he posed a dan-
ker to the community.
SEATTLE
Professors host
classes at Occupy
Seattle site
University and college instruc-
tors are leading free classes and
lectures at Occupy Wall Street
protests in different cities.
In Seattle, the teachers union
for community colleges orga-
nized an overnight set of lectures
when Occupy Seattle moved into
the campus of Seattle Central
Community College.
Instructor Karen Strickland
says the teachers wanted to show
support through lessons. The
teachers were also worried about
clashes between police and the
occupiers. Strickland says les-
sons included how to photograph
human rights abuses, the history
of labor movements and writing a
"position statement."
"Teach-ins" as the classes are
called have also been held in San
Diego and Albuquerque, N.M.
LAGOS, Nigeria
U.S. warns of sect
* bomb attacks in
Nigeria capital
After a weekend of violence
and fear, U.S. officials warned
yesterday that luxury hotels fre-
quented by foreigners and Nige-
ria's elite may be bombed by a
radical Muslim sect as the death
toll from attacks in the country's
northeast rose to more than 100.
The warning by the U.S.
Embassy shows how seriously
diplomats take the threat posed
by the outlawed Islamist group
known locally as Boko Haram,
which previously bombed the
Pnited Nations headquarters in
the capital, Abuja, killing 24.
The unusually specific warn-
ing from the U.S. Embassy iden-
tified possible targets in Abuja
ks the Hilton, Nicon Luxury and
Sheraton hotels. With popular
restaurants and bars, the hotels
draw diplomats, politicians and
S even reformed oil delta mili-
tants.
Theembassysaid anattackmay
tome as Muslims in the oil-rich
nation celebrate the Eid al-Adha
holiday and that its diplomats and
staff had been instructed to avoid
those hotels.
-Compiled from
Daily wire reports
Pot possession
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Muslims pray yesterday on a street outside a mosque during celebrations of Eid al-Adha, a feast celebrated by Muslims
worldwide, which Muslims in Russia call Kurban-Bairam.
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80,000 Muslims pray in
celebrat ion of Eid al-Adha
On religious holiday,
Russians call for
more mosques
MOSCOW (AP) - Tens of
thousands of Muslim men knelt
shoulder-to-shoulder in prayer
on the freezing streets of Mos-
cow yesterday to celebrate the
religious holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Estimates of the number of
Muslims living or working in the
Russian capital run from 2 mil-
lion to as high as 5 million, but
the city only has a few mosques.
Police said 170,000 people
celebrated the holiday in Mos-
cow, including80,000 who gath-
ered on the street outside what
was once the main mosque.
The 100-year-old pastel green
Cathedral Mosque was torn
down in September and a new
mosque being built next to it is
still under construction.
Many of those who braved
temperatures of minus 8 degrees
Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit)
to pray on Sunday morning were
migrant workers from countries
in Central Asia that were once
part of the Soviet Union.
"Of course new mosques are
needed," said Maruv, a shop
worker from Tajikistan who
gave only his first name. "Look
at how many people are in the
street and it's cold. They have
been standing here waiting for
the beginning of prayers since 6
a.m. and there are no facilities."
Police cordoned off the area
and set up metal detectors
to screen worshippers. The
mosque is located next to the
Olympic Stadium, where this
weekend women tennis play-
ers from Russia and the Czech
Republic played the Fed Cup
final.
Muslim prayers also were
held at three other mosques and
in three city parks.
Eid al-Adha, a feast celebrat-
ed by Muslims worldwide, is
known as Kurban-Bairam in
Russia.
Russia's Council of Muftis said
that for the first time this year
the ritual slaughter of sheep was
performed at 10 slaughterhouses
on the outskirts of Moscow. In
past years, Muscovites have com-
plained angrily about the kill-
ing of sheep in the courtyards of
apartment buildings in the city
center.
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each year made. So, in order to clear up any
confusion that may exist, we put
YORK (AP) - As the that order out to make certain that
biggest city deals with officers know that they cannot be
of terrorism and a variety the reason for someone displaying
it crimes, carrying a little (marijuana) publicly."
trijuana is still a big deal. Kelly said the vast majority of
are more arrests for low- pot arrests come from undercover
t possession in New York officers who witness hand-to-
bout 50,000 a year - than hand drug transactions or people
er crime, accounting for smoking pot in public. And, the
ie of every seven cases that department says, as low-level
in criminal courts. arrests have risen, violent crime
phenomenon that has has decreased dramatically.
d despite more leniency But many New Yorkers, most-
marijuana use - the state ly black and Hispanic men, say
d its marijuana-possession they're being targeted in the name
re than 30 years ago. of keeping the city safe.
s say the deluge has been Bronx community organizer
n part by the New York Alfredo Carrasquillo, 27, estimat-
Department's strategy of ed he's been arrested on marijua-
people and frisking those na possession charges more than
olice say meet crime sus- 20 times, starting when he was 14
escriptions. More than a and police ordered him to empty
illion people, mostly black out his pockets outside his high
panic men, were stopped school. He says he was arrested,
r - unfair targets, crit- but was never found smoking the
About 10 percent of stops drug or holding it out in the open
arrests. - though a 1977-state law says
department says that the those with25grams of the drugor
's main goal is to take less in their pockets or bags should
T the street and prevent onlybe ticketed. Legally, it'savio-
nd that the tactic is a life- lation that doesn't result in a crim-
ool. But critics say officers inal record.
for guns in pockets more "We weren't stupid enough to
id pot and - though state smoke it in the middle of the day,"
s the drug is supposed to he said.
pen view to warrant an Gabriel Sayegh, the New York
- lock up the possessor director of the Drug Policy Alli-
ance, a group critical of the
sponse, Police Commis- national war on drugs, said the
Raymond Kelly recently department benefits from the
d officers they can't make arrests.
for small amounts of pot "Every year, they're bringing
e's pockets or bags - and 50,000 people into their system,"
gger an arrest by search- he said. "A significant portion
ple or telling them to of whom have not been arrested
heir pockets. before.
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Oklahoma rattled by
largest earthquake
in state's history
State has Kansas State. Fans were still
leaving the game.
experienced spike "That shook up the place,
in ehad a lot of people nervous,"
Oklahoma State wide receiver
since 2009 Justin Blackmon said.
The temblor sent Jesse
Richards' wife running out-
SPARKS, Okla. (AP) - side because she thought their
Clouds of dust belched from home was going to collapse.
the corners of almost every The earthquake centered near
room in Joe Reneau's house their home in Sparks, 44 miles
as the biggest earthquake in northeast of Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma history rocked the could be felt throughout the
two-story building. state and in Arkansas, Kansas,
A roar that sounded like a Missouri, northern Texas and
jumbo jet filled the air, and some parts of Illinois and Wis-
Reneau's red-brick chimney consin.
collapsed and fell into the roof Richards estimated it lasted
above the living room. By the for as much as a minute. One
time the shaking stopped, a of his wife's cookie jars fell on
pantry worth of food had been the floor and shattered, and
strewn across the kitchen and pictures hanging in their liv-
shards of glass and pottery ing room were knocked askew.
covered the floor. "We've been here 18 years,
"It was like WHAM!" said and it's getting to be a regular
Reneau, 75, gesturing with occurrence," said Richards,
swipes of his arms. "I thought 50. But, he added, "I hope I
in my mind the house would never get used to them."
stand, but then again, maybe Geologists now believe a
not." magnitude 4.7 earthquake
The magnitude 5.6 earth- Saturday morning was a fore-
quake and its aftershocks still shock to the bigger one that
had residents rattled yester- followed that night. They
day. No injuries were reported, recorded 10 aftershocks by
and aside from a buckled high- midmorning yesterday and
way and the collapse of a tower expected more. Two of the
on the St. Gregory's University aftershocks, at 4 a.m. and 9
administration building, nei- a.m., were big, magnitude 4.0.
ther was any major damage. "We will definitely continue
But the weekend earthquakes to see aftershocks, as we've
were among the strongest yet already seen aftershocks from
in a state that has seen a dra- this one," said Paul Earle, a
matic, unexplained increase in seismologist with the U.S.
seismic activity. Geological Survey in Golden,
Oklahoma typically had Colo. "We will see aftershocks
about 50 earthquakes a year in the days and weeks to come,
until 2009. Then the number possibly even months."
spiked, and 1,047 quakes shook Brad Collins, the spokesman
the state last year, prompting for St. Gregory's University in
researchers to install seismo- Shawnee, said one of the four
graphs in the area. Still, most towers on its "castle-looking"
of the earthquakes have been administration building col-
small. lapsed in the big earthquake
Saturday night's big one and the other three towers
jolted Oklahoma State Univer- were damaged. He estimated
sity's stadium shortly after the the towers were about 25 feet
No. 3 Cowboys defeated No. 17 tall.
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