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Show 2 BULLETIN Tuesday, November 20,2007 u At the AH stories and photos from The Associated Press Hate crimes up 8% in '06 20 Today WASHINGTON—Hate crime incidents rose nearly 8 percent last year, the FBI reported Monday, as civil rights advocates increasingly take to the streets to protest what they call official indifference to intimidation and attacks against blacks and other minorities. Police across the nation reported 7,722 criminal incidents in 2006 targeting victims or property as a result of bias against a race, religion, sexual orientation, ethnic or national origin or physical or mental disability. That was up 7.8 percent from 7,163 incidents reported in 2005. More than half the incidents were motivated by racial prejudice, but the report did not even pick up all the racially motivated incidents last year. Although the noose incidents and beatings among students at the Jena, La., high school occurred in the last half of 2006, they were not included in the report. Only 12,600.of the nation's more than 17,000 local, county, state and federal police agencies participated in the hate crime reporting program in 2006 and neither Jena nor LaSalle Parish, in which the town is located, were among the agencies reporting. Nevertheless, the Jena incidents, and a subsequent rash of noose and other racial incidents around the country, have spawned civil rights demonstrations that culminated last week at Justice Department headquarters here. The department said it investigated the Jena incident but decided not to prosecute because the •Washington Update: Congressman Jim Matheson (D-Utnh): 10:45 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.@ Hinckley Caucus Room, •;•;_, OSH255 . ..$* •WRC Follow-up discussion of the film "A Boy I Am": Noon to 1 p.m. @ V UnionRoom411 • Neurosdence Seminar Series: Jerry Silver, Ph.D.: 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. @ Eccles Institute of Human Genetics ••;•, • Meteorology Graduate Seminar: ' Icebergl A remote sensing story: 3:30 @IIOINSCC ....• .,.: ... • . -,-,,• • Wednesday • "Dream America" Prints by Andy Warhol: All day @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts • Cinderella: Masks, Magic, & Mirrors: All day @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts • Bear Riven Last Chance to Change Course: Utah Museum of Natural History • Faculty Recital: Ning Lu, piano: 7:30 p.m. @ Libby Gardner Concert Hall • Picturing the West: 19th Century Landscape Photography: All day @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts Thursday •Thanksgiving Holiday O - D A Y WEATHER OUTLOOK Today 42/26 40/25 WASHINGTON—Despite a decline in violence in -Iraq, northern Iraq has become more violent than Thursday other regions as al-Qaida and other Partly Cloudy^ militants move there to avoid coWWW.WEATHER.COM alition operations elsewhere, the region's top U.S. commander said Monday. Army Maj. Gen. Mark P. Hertling and Clarifications said al-Qaida cells still operate in all the key cities in the north. -The policy of-The-Daily Utah Chronicle-— .^What-you're seeing is the enemy is to correct any error made as soon as pos- shifting," Hertling told Pentagon resible. Ifyou find something you would like porters in a video conference from clarified or find unfair, please contact the outside Tikrit in northern Iraq. editor at 801-581-8317. Hertling said militants have been Sunny 42/25 Corrections jNhu fjork $tm ACROSS 62 Actress Garbo 4 Speak 63 "Er ... um ..." 64 Old tennis racket string material 9 Smokey Robinson's music genre, for short 14 de France 15 End of a hangman's rope 66 Taboos 67 Cry before "Get your hands off!" 17 Bore 21 federal government does not typically bring hate crime charges against juveniles. Organizers said 100 busloads of protesters joined Friday's march here. In September, an estimated 20,000 protesters marched through Jena. On Nov. 3, hundreds of protesters marched through downtown Charleston, W. Va., to urge prosecutors to add hate crime charges against six white people charged in the beating, torture and sexual assault of a 20-year-old black woman who was discovered Sept. 8 after several days of alleged captivity in a rural trailer. The Jena case began in August 2006 after a black student sat under a tree known as a gathering spot for white students. Three white students later hung nooses from the tree. They were Leaders pledge to work against U.S. Edited by Will Shortz DOWN 23 Boar 2 . . 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"What is not reported, however, is the lack of prosecution and serious investigation by the Justice Department to counter this increase in hate crimes." pushed east to his area from Anbar in June, compared with 900 last by the so-called Awakening move- month. ment, in which local tribes have The U.S. military says overall allied with the coalition against attacks in Iraq have fallen 55 peral-Qaida. Others have been pushed cent since nearly 30,000 additional north to his area from the Baghdad American troops arrived in Iraq by region, where this year's U.S. troops June, and some areas are experiencescalation has made more opera- ing their lowest levels of violence tions possible. since the summer of 2005. "The attacks are still much higher Still, the threat posed by roadside than I would like here in the north, bombs, which the military calls imbut they-are-continuinfrto decrease -ptovised-explosive devices, or IEDs, in numbers and scale of attacks," he remains a serious problem, retired said. Gen. Montgomery Meigs, director ( Hertling said 1,830 roadside df^th^Pefntagon's-counter-IED orbombs were placed in his region ganization, told reporters Monday. 1 Have a chair by, as a table 22 The T in T.G.l.F. 3 7 1 6 Thousands of people march around the Justice Department in Washington on Friday, Nov. 16, during the "March Against Hate Crimes"to protest hate crime issues. in one's head and outs 9 PEOPLES ORGANIZATION 10B PROGR 65 Stand for a portrait 16 Love to bits 20 Have RACIAL PROFILING 57 Bohr l Speaks, informally (§) www.dailyutahchronicle.com NEWS In Brief Humane Society asks BYU not to display white rhino Al-Qaida stirs violence in Northern Iraq Partly Cloudy Wednesday www.dailyutahchronide.com CONTACT INFORMATION www.dailyutahchronide.com/contacts Editorial Editor in Chief • m.piper@chronide.utah.edu Press contact • press@chronicle.utah.edu Editorial letters • letters@chronide.utah.edu Business General Manager • j.sorensen@chronicle.utah.edu Director of Advertising • thurtado@chronide,utah.edu TEHRAN, Iran—Venezuela's outspoken president joined with Iran's leader Monday in boasting that they are "united like a single fist" in challenging American influence, saying the fall of the dollar is a sign that "the U.S. empire is coming down." Hugo Chavez also joked about the most serious issue the U.S. is confronting regarding Iran—nuclear weapons—during his gettogether with Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The visit came after a failed attempt by the firebrand duo to move OPEC away from pricing its oil in dollars. OPEC's weekend summit displayed the limits of their alliance — their proposal was overruled by other members, led by Saudi Arabia — but it also showed their potential for stirring up problems for the U.S. and its allies. Making his fourth trip to Tehran in two years, Chavez has built a strong bond with Ahmadinejad that has produced a string of business agreements as well as a torrent of rhetoric presenting their two countries as an example of how smaller nations can stand up to the US. "Here are two brother countries, united like a single fist," Chavez said upon his arrival in Tehran, according to Venezuela's state-run Bolivarian News Agency. "God willing, with the fall of the dollar, the deviant U.S. imperialism will fall as soon as possible, too," Chavez said after a two-hour closed meeting with Ahmadinejad, the Iranian state news agency IRNA reported. As the dollar weakens, oil prices have soared toward $100 a barrel. Chavez said at the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, that prices would more than double to $200 if the U.S. attacked Iran or Venezuela. Advertising 801 581.7041 EDITOR IN CHIEF REDUX EDITOR Matthew Piper Danny Letz PROVO,—The Humane Society of the United States is objecting to the planned display of a white rhino at Brigham Young University. The rhino was killed in South Africa by Fred Morris of Draper, a museum benefactor who had a permit. "Museums and institutions of higher learning, perhaps a century ago, used to acquire animals through this fashion by sending out trophy hunters to collect specimens from the wild. But it has really gone out of fashion and there are much better ways to set up a museum collection without procuring the animals from wild populations," said Michael Markarian, executive vice president of the Humane Society. The Humane Society, based in Washington, D.C., said white rhinos are among the rarest large mammals in the world. The group is asking BYU to stop the exhibit, but the school has no plans to change course. "We followed appropriate procedure in acquiring the rhinoceros in terms of international law and federal lavi and all treaties that exist to protect these animals. We've not done anything illegal at all," museum director Larry St. Clair said Monday. The Humane Society claims the bagging of a white rhino conflicts with the standards of The Church of lesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which owns BYU. St. Clair, however, said officials at a national park in South Africa reported a surplus of rhinos. He said all meat was given to local residents. Clinton says economy needs experienced president KNOXVILLE, Iowa—The economy needs help and fast, Hillary Rodham -Gliriton declared Monday, claiming the experience for the job and saying the nation can't afford to break in a newcomer. In speech that kicked off a two-day campaign swing through Iowa, the New York senator painted a bleak picture of a U.S. economy battered by home foreclosures, rising oil prices and lack of good jobs for middle class workers. Without mentioning names, she suggested Democratic rival Barack Obama—less than three years into his first term in the Senate—and other candidates lack the experience necessary to address the nation's myriadfiscalchallenges. "There is one job we can't afford on-the-job training for—our next president. That could be the costliest job training in history," Clinton said. "Every day spent learning the ropes is another day of rising costs, mounting deficits and growing anxiety for our families. And they cannot afford to keep waiting." In Iowa, Obama was asked about Clinton's comments and offered a sharp response. "My understanding is she wasn't Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration. I don't know exactly what experience she's claiming," he said. "Rather than just assert experience, if she has specific differences with me in regard to economic policy then let's have that debate." News 801 581.NEWS MANAGING EDITOR ASST. REDUX EDITOR Becca Krahenbuhl Dan Fletcher PRODUCTION MANAGER OPINION EDITOR ArianaTorrey Lindsey Sine ONLINE EDITOR SPORTS EDITOR Andy Thompson Tony Pizza NEWS EDITOR ASST. SPORTS EDITOR Dustin Gardiner Cody Brunner ASST. NEWS EDITOR PHOTO EDITOR Ana Breton Lennle Mahler ASST. 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