Thursday, 8.20.15 ON THE WEB: www.yankton.net NEWSROOM: [email protected] ress akotan the world P &D PAGE 7 Islamic State Beheads Syrian Scholar DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — The 81-year-old antiquities UN To Let Iran Inspect scholar had dedicated his life to exploring and overseeing Syria’s ancient ruins of Palmyra, one of the Middle East’s most spectacular archaeological sites. He even named his daughter after Zenobia, the queen that ruled from the city 1,700 years ago. That dedication may have cost him his life. On Wednesday, Alleged Nuke Work Site relatives and witnesses said Khaled al-Asaad was beheaded by Islamic State militants, his bloodied body hung on a pole in a GEORGE JAHN ing Iran to inspect its own nuclear site The document seen by the AP is a main square. Antiquities officials said they believed IS militants had Associated Press and report to the U.N. in an open and draft that one official familiar with its transparent way is remarkably naive and contents said doesn’t differ substantially interrogated al-Asaad, a long-time director of the site, trying incredibly reckless. This revelation only from the final version. He demanded to get him to divulge where authorities had hidden treasures VIENNA (AP) — Iran will be allowed secreted out of Palmyra before the extremists seized the ruins to use its own inspectors to investigate reinforces the deep-seated concerns anonymity because he wasn’t authorized the American people have about the to discuss the issue in public. last spring. a site it has been accused of using to The brutal killing stunned Syria’s archaeological commu- develop nuclear arms, operating under agreement.” The document is labeled “separate ar- The Parchin agreement was worked rangement II,” indicating there is another nity and underscored fears the extremists will destroy or loot a secret agreement with the U.N. agency the 2,000-year-old Roman-era city on the edge of a modern that normally carries out such work, out between the IAEA and Iran. The Unit- confidential agreement between Iran and ed States and the five other world powers the IAEA governing the agency’s probe of town of the same name, as they have other major archaeologi- according to a document seen by The As- cal sites in Syria and Iraq. sociated Press. were not party to it but were briefed by the nuclear weapons allegations. the IAEA and endorsed it as part of the Iran is to provide agency experts with “We have lost not just a scholar of archaeology but one of The revelation on Wednesday newly the pillars of archaeology in the 20th century,” said Ahmad riled Republican lawmakers in the U.S. larger package. photos and videos of locations the IAEA On Wednesday, White House National says are linked to the alleged weapons Ferzat Taraqji, a 56-year-old antiquities expert and friend of who have been severely critical of a the victim. broader agreement to limit Iran’s future Security Council spokesman Ned Price work, “taking into account military con- nuclear programs, signed by the Obama said the Obama administration was cerns.” administration, Iran and five world pow- “confident in the agency’s technical plans That wording suggests that — beyond ers in July. Those critics have complained for investigating the possible military di- being barred from physically visiting the Scientists Know How Genes Makes You Fat that the wider deal is unwisely built on mensions of Iran’s former program. ... The site — the agency won’t get photo or Scientists have finally figured out how the key gene tied to trust of the Iranians, while the administra- IAEA has separately developed the most video information from areas Iran says obesity makes people fat, a major discovery that could open tion has insisted it depends on reliable robust inspection regime ever peacefully are off-limits because they have military the door to an entirely new approach to the problem beyond inspections. negotiated.” significance. diet and exercise. A skeptical House Speaker John All IAEA member countries must give While the document says the IAEA The work solves a big mystery: Since 2007, researchers Boehner said, “President Obama boasts the agency some insight into their nuclear “will ensure the technical authenticity” of have known that a gene called FTO was related to obesity, but his deal includes ‘unprecedented verifica- programs. Some are required to do no Iran’s inspection, it does not say how. they didn’t know how, and could not tie it to appetite or other tion.’ He claims it’s not built on trust. But more than give a yearly accounting of the The draft is unsigned but the pro- known factors. the administration’s briefings on these nuclear material they possess. But na- posed signatory for Iran is listed as Ali Now experiments reveal that a faulty version of the gene side deals have been totally insufficient tions— like Iran — suspected of possible Hoseini Tash, deputy secretary of the causes energy from food to be stored as fat rather than - and it still isn’t clear whether anyone proliferation are under greater scrutiny Supreme National Security Council for burned. Genetic tinkering in mice and on human cells in the at the White House has seen the final that can include stringent inspections. Strategic Affairs. That reflects the signifi- lab suggests this can be reversed, giving hope that a drug or documents.” The agreement in question diverges cance Tehran attaches to the agreement. other treatment might be developed to do the same in people. Said House Foreign Affairs Committee from normal procedures by allowing Iranian diplomats in Vienna were The work was led by scientists at MIT and Harvard Uni- Chairman Ed Royce: “International inspec- Tehran to employ its own experts and unavailable for comment, Wednesday versity and published online Wednesday by the New England tions should be done by international equipment in the search for evidence of while IAEA spokesman Serge Gas said the Journal of Medicine. inspectors. Period.” activities it has consistently denied — try- agency had no immediate comment. The discovery challenges the notion that “when people get But House Democratic leader Nancy ing to develop nuclear weapons. The main focus of the July 14 deal obese it was basically their own choice because they choose Pelosi shrugged off the revelation, saying, Olli Heinonen, who was in charge of between Iran and six world powers is to eat too much or not exercise,” said study leader Melina “I truly believe in this agreement.” the Iran probe as deputy IAEA director curbing Iran’s present nuclear program Claussnitzer, a genetics specialist at Harvard-affiliated Beth The newly disclosed side agreement, general from 2005 to 2010, said he could that could be used to make weapons. But Israel Deaconess Medical Center. “For the first time, genetics for an investigation of the Parchin nuclear think of no similar concession with any a subsidiary element obligates Tehran to has revealed a mechanism in obesity that was not really sus- site by the U.N.’s International Atomic other country. cooperate with the IAEA in its probe of pected before” and gives a third explanation or factor that’s Energy Agency, is linked to persistent al- The White House has repeatedly de- the past allegations. involved. legations that Iran has worked on atomic nied claims of a secret side deal favorable The investigation has been essentially weapons. That investigation is part of the to Tehran. IAEA chief Yukiya Amano deadlocked for years, with Tehran as- overarching nuclear-limits deal. told Republican senators last week that serting the allegations are based on false Israel Suspends Detention Of Striker Evidence of the inspections conces- he was obligated to keep the document intelligence from the U.S., Israel and other JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday sion is sure to increase pressure from confidential. adversaries. But Iran and the U.N. agency suspended the detention order against a Palestinian prisoner U.S. congressional opponents before a Iran has refused access to Parchin for agreed last month to wrap up the investi- who has been on a hunger strike for 65 days, releasing him Senate vote of disapproval on the overall years and has denied any interest in — or gation by December, when the IAEA plans while he receives medical care in a ruling that his relatives and agreement in early September. If the work on — nuclear weapons. Based on to issue a final assessment. supporters hailed as a victory. resolution passes and President Barack U.S., Israeli and other intelligence and its That assessment is unlikely to be The decision means that Mohammed Allan will no longer Obama vetoes it, opponents would need own research, the IAEA suspects that the unequivocal. Still, it is expected to be be shackled to his bed and his family will be able to visit him a two-thirds majority to override it. Even Islamic Republic may have experimented approved by the IAEA’s board, which in the hospital, where his lawyer said he remains sedated and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, with high-explosive detonators for nu- includes the United States and the other unconscious. a Republican, has suggested opponents clear arms. nations that negotiated the July 14 agree- The court’s action did little to resolve a debate over will likely lose a veto fight, though that The IAEA has cited evidence, based ment. They do not want to upend their Israel’s practice of holding suspects without charge, known as was before Wednesday’s disclosure. on satellite images, of possible attempts broader deal, and will see the December administrative detention, or a new law that permits the force- John Cornyn of Texas, the second- to sanitize the site since the alleged work report as closing the books on the issue. feeding of hunger strikers. ranking Republican senator, said, “Trust- stopped more than a decade ago. Before he fell unconscious Aug. 14, Allan had appeared set to be the first test of the law. Since then, he has been given fluids and nutritional supplements while the case went to court, although those treatments were not considered to be Subway’s Latest Challenge: Getting Out From Jared’s Shadow force-feeding. After a long day of deliberations, the Supreme Court an- CANDICE CHOI story for more than 15 years nounced that Allan, who doctors say has suffered some brain AP Food Industry Writer as it more than doubled its damage, would remain hospitalized but that his administrative locations in the U.S. The pitch- detention was suspended. NEW YORK (AP) — Subway man appeared in Subway TV benefited hugely from Jared ads as recently as last month, Fogle’s weight loss story. Now on the day his home was the sandwich chain needs to raided by state and federal Mom Who Suffocated 3 Sons To Blame figure out how to prevent him investigators, according to BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio (AP) — A mother accused of killing from overshadowing its future. iSpot.tv, which measures her three sons was dominated and isolated by her husband, a It’s not clear how custom- national TV ads. That ad re- man nearly twice her age who had been her own mother’s live- ers will react to Fogle’s plans capped how Fogle lost weight, in boyfriend before they married, authorities said Wednesday. to plead guilty to allegations and the latest chapter in his Investigators believe Brittany Pilkington used each boy’s that he paid for sex acts with life as a family man with two comfort blanket to suffocate them in their crib or bed over minors and received child children. the last 13 months, because she wanted her husband to pay pornography, since it doesn’t It was one of three Subway more attention to herself and their 3-year-old daughter, Logan have anything to do with Sub- ads featuring Fogle up to that County Prosecutor William Goslee said. way’s food. But the associa- point in the year, out of a total Pilkington, 23, is jailed on murder charges in all three tion of the company’s name of 40 different Subway ads, deaths, including her 3-month-old son Noah, who died Tues- with crimes that evoke such according to iSpot.tv. day, less than a week after he was returned from protective universal disgust come at a Julie Carlton, a 28-year-old custody on a judge’s order. rough juncture for Subway. graduate student who was at Goslee said he won’t likely seek the death penalty because Subway is facing intense a Subway in New York City of the background of Brittany Pilkington, including the fact competition and concerns that Wednesday, said she doesn’t she had been dominated by her husband Joseph Pilkington, it’s overgrown. The company’s plan to stop going to the chain 43, who had been her “semi-stepfather” at one point. Goslee co-founder and CEO is fighting because she doesn’t think said she apparently feared how the boys would grow up, and cancer. And at a time when at- the company is to blame for described her daughter Hailey as her only friend. titudes about the definition of Fogle’s actions. “It was her plan to eliminate male children in order that healthy are changing, Subway She said she was much this father would have more attention available for her and for is trying to convince people more upset with Chick-fil-A Hailey the daughter,” Goslee said. “That’s a fact.” about the quality of its food by after the fried chicken chain’s removing artificial ingredients president publicly reaffirmed from its menu. his support of what he called Police Hunt ‘Foreigner’ In Bombing “For a while, when you see the “biblical definition of BANGKOK (AP) — A police manhunt was underway a Subway ad, you’re going to the family unit” that did not Wednesday for an “unidentified foreign man” shown in a se- think about that child pornog- include same-sex marriage. curity video leaving a backpack at a popular Bangkok shrine raphy charge,” said Allen Ad- The move provoked an outcry just minutes before a bomb exploded there. amson of the brand consulting from gay rights supporters. Two other people seen on the video near the man are firm Landor Associates. “There’s a big difference also considered suspects in Monday’s deadly bombing, Companies like having fa- between with what happed ANDREAS BRANCH/PATRICK MCMULLAN CO./SIPA USA/TNS with Jared and what happened Jared Fogle on June 8 at the premiere of Disney-Pixar’s police said. mous representatives because Authorities released a sketch of the man who left behind it’s a way to make people feel with Chick-fil-A,” said Carlton, “Inside Out”; in Hollywood, Calif. who noted that Subway cut the backpack and offered a 1 million baht ($28,000) reward like that they could somehow for information leading to his arrest. But apart from the be more like those individu- ties with Fogle. Still, the revelations about food, with industry execu- locations as McDonald’s, the rough portrait, they had few solid leads in Monday’s bomb- als — which in the case of tives saying people are paying next biggest chain. Fogle meant losing weight and Fogle come at a bad time for ing at the Erawan Shrine that killed 20 people and wounded Subway, which had already closer attention to things like Don Sniegowski, editor of 120 others. being able to keep it off. But ingredients, not just calories Blue Maumau, a site for fran- such relationships also can been struggling with sales. The grainy security video shows the man, wearing a Subway is privately held or fat. To keep pace, Subway chisees, said it’s difficult to yellow T-shirt and shorts, sitting down on a bench at the backfire when celebrities run said in June it would remove predict how business might be into trouble. and doesn’t publicly report its shrine, taking off a black backpack and leaving it behind as financial results. But average artificial ingredients from its affected by the Fogle scandal, he stands up and walks away. Time stamps show he left the The charges against food, following similar deci- but he thinks sales will be hurt Fogle also are tough because annual sales at U.S. Subway lo- shrine 15 minutes before the explosion, which struck just cations fell 3 percent last year, sions by others. slightly. before 7 p.m. he wasn’t just a one-time Overextension might be “You think of Subway, and endorser; he is famous solely according to industry tracker The two possible accomplices are seen standing in front Technomic. That was the first part of the problem, too. Sub- you think of Jared chasing of the man, said police spokesman Lt. Gen. Prawut Thavorn- for dropping more than 200 way says it has about 27,000 around little girls. It’s going to pounds with his “Subway decline since 2006. siri. One of the men was wearing a red shirt and the other The company is dealing locations in just the U.S., mitigate people’s decision to was in white, and they were seen leaving the area shortly diet.” which is nearly twice as many go there,” he said. Subway leaned on Fogle’s with changing attitudes about before the man in yellow also leaves.

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