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UP FRONTThursday 14 January 2016
Carter lays out plan to take Mosul, Raqqa from IS Investigators return
to dead US woman’s
LOLITA C. BALDOR warned that taking it back along with other key tar- local forces in Iraq and flat in Florence, Italy
Associated Press will not be quick or easy. gets,” Carter said. Syria to have lasting suc-
FORT CAMPBELL, Kentucky Carter announced in De- His speech offered an up- cess. He said the U.S. must MILAN (AP) — Crime scene
(AP) — Defense Secretary cember that the U.S. would beat assessment of the not “Americanize” the con-
Ash Carter laid out broad deploy about 200 special anti-IS campaign, say- flicts because that would investigators returned
plans Wednesday to de- operations forces to Iraq to ing that coalition-backed allow militants to accuse
feat Islamic State militants better capitalize on intelli- forces, supported by the the West of occupying the Wednesday to the Flor-
and retake the group’s key gence and put more pres- airstrikes, are taking back country.
power centers in Iraq and sure on the enemy. territory and going after the About 500 troops from the ence apartment where
Syria. And he announced “The specialized expedi- groups finances. This week 101st Airborne headquar-
that a special commando tionary targeting force I an- airstrikes hit an Islamic State ters group will deploy at the a 35-year-old American
force has now arrived in nounced in December is cash center in Mosul. end of February and about
Iraq. Speaking to troops woman was found stran-
from the 101st Airborne
Division who will soon de- gled to death over the
ploy to Iraq, Carter also
said he would meet in Paris weekend, searching for
next week with his defense
counterparts, mainly from clues to identify her killer.
Europe, and will challenge
them to bring more capa- Ashley Olsen was found
bilities to the fight.
He said he will be meeting nude on her bed in her
with defense leaders from
France, Australia, Germa- rented apartment on Sat-
ny, Italy, the Netherlands
and the United Kingdom. urday after her boyfriend
“Each of these nations has
a significant stake in com- had the owner open the
pleting the destruction of
this evil organization, and door, alarmed that the
we must include all of the
capabilities they can bring young woman had failed
to the field,” he said.
Carter’s broader message to respond to phone calls.
signaled the completion
of a military plan to help The body had bruises and
Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmer-
ga forces retake Mosul in scratches on the neck,
northern Iraq and to assist
the Syrian moderate forces and an autopsy deter-
oust Islamic State militants
from their headquarters in mined that she had been
Raqqa. He described op-
erations that would send strangled with a cord or a
Iraqi forces from the south
and Peshmerga forces rope. Authorities have not
from the north to encircle
and cut off Mosul. But he identified a suspect. Italian
media reports Wednesday
indicated that investiga-
tors are narrowing in on a
suspect, using video sur-
veillance cameras along
the route from the night-
club where she was last
seen early Friday to her
home, while also searching
for clues in the apartment.
The lead prosecutor de-
clined to comment on the
Defense Secretary Ash Carter speaks to reporters at the Pentagon. Carter laid out broad plans case Wednesday, and po-
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2016, to defeat Islamic State militants and retake the group’s key power
centers in Iraq and Syria. And he announced that a special commando force has now arrived in lice officials say they are
Iraq.
not authorized to speak
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
to the press during the in-
vestigation. Olsen, origi-
nally from Summer Haven,
now in place and is prepar- His remarks came a day 1,300 members of the 2nd Florida, had been living in
ing to work with the Iraqis after President Barack Brigade Combat Team will
to begin going after ISIL’s Obama’s State of the Union deploy to Iraq in late spring. Florence for three years,
fighters and commanders, speech, expanding on The brigade will be train-
killing or capturing them the message that the U.S. ing Iraqi and Peshmerga an active member of the
wherever we find them, must build and work with forces. q
expatriate community and
art scene. She had moved
to Italy to join her father
Walter Olsen, who teaches
WEF revokes invite to North Korea for Davos Forum in the Renaissance art city.
Walter Olsen issued a state-
JAMEY KEATEN ing of hundreds of heads sponsible and responsive “convincing, encourag- ment late Tuesday express-
Associated Press of state, CEOs and public member of the internation- ing signals out of DPRK that
GENEVA (AP) — Organiz- figures in the Swiss ski resort al community.” It did not there maybe is an opportu- ing the family’s grief and
ers of the World Economic of Davos. But after North elaborate. nity for international global
Forum in Davos say they Korea carried out on Jan. WEF officials said that the dialogue.” “But we have all confidence that the killer
have revoked an invitation 6 a nuclear test — which it decision to revoke the invi- seen what has happened
to a delegation from North claimed to be of a hydro- tation came within the last last week,” he told report- would be found.
Korea, in what appears to gen bomb — the WEF said 24 hours, in part because of ers, as organizers present-
be an international rebuke the country’s delegation the growing acceptance ed this year’s agenda. “We “We are devastated that
over the secretive Commu- would be subject to “exist- that the North Korean del- decided after the nuclear
nist country’s nuclear test ing and possible forthcom- egation, which was to be test that ... there will be no our precious Ashley has
this month. The WEF invita- ing sanctions.” Western headed by its foreign min- opportunity for an interna-
tion had been extended to and other countries have ister, would not be open to tional global dialogue in passed away resulting
North Korea in the autumn been looking for ways to dialogue. the spirit of the World Eco-
“in view of positive signs punish North Korea for its in- Philipp Roesler, a mem- nomic Forum.” from a horrible and sense-
coming out of the country,” creasingly militaristic tone. ber of the WEF managing “Therefore we could not
organizers said in a state- The WEF added that a board, said that when the maintain our invitation to less crime,” he wrote.
ment. North Korea had delegation would still be invitation was extended in DPRK,” he added, referring
accepted to attend the welcome in the future if the fall, event organizers to a common acronym for He described his daughter
annual high-profile gather- North Korea “acts as a re- believed there had been North Korea. q
as “a beautiful and cre-
ative young woman, with
a happy, exuberant and
generous soul,” adding:
“We are heartbroken she
was taken from us.”
He asked that the family
be left to grieve in peace
and expressed “faith that
the perpetrator will be
found and sentenced.”q
