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ByJeffreyCollins The Associated Press CHARLESTON, S.C. They forgave him. They advised him to repent for his sins, and asked for God's mercy on his soul. One even told Dylann Storm Roof to re- pent and confess, and "you'll be OK." Relatives of the nine community leaders shot down during a Bible study session at their historic black church confronted the shooting suspect Fri- day during his initial court hearing, and spoke of love. "I forgive you, my fam- ily forgives you," said An- thony Thompson. "We would like you to take this opportunity to repent. ... Do that and you'll be bet- ter off than you are right now." Roof, who faces nine counts of murder, was or- dered held on $1 million bond on a separate gun charge. He appeared by video from the county jail, looking somber in a striped jumpsuit and speaking only briefly in response to the judge's questions. A police affidavit re- leased Friday accused Roof of shooting all nine victims multiple times, and mak- ing a "racially inflamma- tory statement" as he stood over an unnamed witness. Felecia Sanders survived the Wednesday night attack by pretending to be dead, but lost her son Tywanza. She also spoke from the judge's courtroom, where Roof's image appeared on a television screen. "We welcomed you Wednesday night in our Bi- ble study with open arms. You have killed some of the most beautifulest peo- ple that I know. Every fiber in my body hurts ... and I'll never be the same," Sanders told Roof. "Tywanza was my hero," Sanders said, but even she showed some kindness as she confronted the man ac- cused of killing her son: "As we said in Bible Study, we enjoyed you but may God have mercy on you." Roof, 21, bowed his head slightly and appeared downcast as the relatives spoke. From the jail, he could hear the people talk- ing, but couldn't see them, because the camera shows only the judge. The relatives' remarkable comments seemed in keep- ing with a spirit evident on the streets of Charleston Friday, where people built a memorial and planned a vigil to repudiate what- ever a gunman would hope to accomplish by attacking the Emanuel African Meth- odist Episcopal Church, one of the nation's most im- portant African-American sanctuaries. "A hateful person came to this community with some crazy idea he'd be able to divide, but all he did was unite us and make us love each other even more," Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. said as he described plans for the evening vigil at a sports arena. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said the state will "absolutely" want the death penalty. A steady stream of peo- ple brought flowers and notes and shared som- ber thoughts at a growing memorial in front of the church, which President Barack Obama called "a sa- cred place in the history of Charleston and in the his- tory of America." "This was an act of ra- cial terrorism and must be treated as such," the Rev. Cornell William Brooks, president of the National Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored Peo- ple, said Friday in Charles- ton. Roof had complained while getting drunk on vodka recently that "blacks were taking over the world" and that "someone needed to do something about it for the white race," according to Joey Meek, who tipped the FBI when he saw his friend on surveillance im- ages. Roof also told him he used birthday money from his parents to buy a .45 Glock pistol before the at- tack, Meek said. The affi- davit said Roof's father and uncle also called authorities after seeing surveillance photos, and that the father said Roof owned a .45-cal- iber gun. Brooks said hate crimes take aim at collective val- ues, but "we have never al- lowed ourselves to be vic- tims, we have never capit- ulated, we have never laid prostate before the dem- agogue of racism in this country." "This is a moment in which we say to them, the white nationalists move- ment, those purveyors of hate, we as Americans will not subscribe to that philos- ophy. We will not give up, we will not give in," he said. Roof was arrested in North Carolina after an alert motorist recognized him, and returned in shack- les to a county jail where he was being held next to the cell of Michael Slager, the white former police officer charged with fatally shoot- ing black motorist Walter Scott in neighboring North Charleston. It was the third arrest for Roof, who was quizzed by police in February after workers at the Columbiana shopping mall said he ap- peared dressed entirely in black, asking strange ques- tions about employee move- ments and closing times. He was charged then with pos- sessing suboxone, a drug typically used to treat her- oin addiction. A trespassing charge was added after he showed up again in April, prompting a three-year ban from the mall. CHURCH ATTACK FamiliesofCharleston9 forgive shooting suspect CENTRALIZEDBONDHEARINGCOURT,OFCHARLESTON,S.C. Dylann Roof appears via video before a judge in Charleston, S.C., on Friday. CURTIS COMPTON — ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION VIA AP Stewart Watson, right, of Baltimore, comforts Maranda Mincey of Charleston, as they both become emotional while visiting the sidewalk memorial at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Friday in Charleston, S.C. KARIM KADIM — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE Civilians inspect the site of a car bomb attack on Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad, Iraq. By Matthew Lee and Bradley Klapper The Associated Press WASHINGTON Iran's sup- port for international ter- rorist groups remained un- diminished last year and even expanded in some respects, the Obama ad- ministration said Friday, less than two weeks be- fore the deadline for com- pleting a nuclear deal that could provide Tehran with billions of dollars in relief from economic sanctions. The assessment offered a worrying sign of even worse terror-related vio- lence to come after a year in which extremists in the Middle East, Africa and Asia committed 35 percent more terrorist acts, killed nearly twice as many peo- ple and almost tripled the number of kidnappings worldwide. Statistics re- leased by the State De- partment on Friday also pointed to a tenfold surge in the most lethal kinds of attacks. Yet even as the Islamic State and the Taliban were blamed for most of the death and destruction in 2014, the department's annual terrorism report underscored the ongoing threat posed by Iran and its proxies across the Is- lamic world and beyond. Tehran increased its as- sistance to Shiite militias fighting in Iraq and con- tinued its long-standing military, intelligence and financial aid to Lebanon's Hezbollah, Syrian Presi- dent Bashar Assad's em- battled government and Palestinian groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. While the 388-page study said Iran has lived up to in- terim nuclear deals with world powers thus far, it gave no prediction about how an Iran flush with cash from a final agree- ment would behave. World powers and Iran are trying to conclude an accord by the end of the month, setting 15 years of restrictions on Iran's nu- clear program in exchange for significant relief from the international sanctions that have crippled the Ira- nian economy. In total last year, nearly 33,000 people were killed in almost 13,500 terrorist attacks around the world, according to the figures that were compiled for the State Department by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Mary- land. That's up from just over 18,000 deaths in nearly 10,000 attacks in 2013. Twenty-four Americans were killed by extremists in 2014, the report said. US report finds Iran threat undiminished TERRORISM By Andrew Taylor and Ricardo Alonso- Zaldivar The Associated Press WASHINGTON Repealing President Barack Obama's signature health care law would modestly increase the budget deficit, while the number of uninsured Americans would rise by more than 20 million, said a nonpartisan government study released Friday. The report from the Con- gressional Budget Office comes ahead of a highly anticipated Supreme Court ruling that could have a major impact on the Af- fordable Care Act, nullify- ing health insurance subsi- dies for some 6 million peo- ple in more than 30 states. The budget analysts said that would add a host of new uncertainties to their estimates. Republicans now in con- trol of both chambers of Congress say they are not backing away from their promise to repeal "Obam- acare." But repealing the law's spending cuts and tax in- creases would add $137 bil- lion to the federal deficit over the coming decade, CBO said, even though al- most $1.7 trillion in cover- age costs would disappear. Repeal would reduce def- icits in the first few years but increase them steadily as time goes on. Repeal would up the number of uninsured peo- ple by about 24 million people, and the share of U.S. adults with health in- surance would drop from roughly 90 percent now to about 82 percent, the report said. On the other side of the balance sheet, the report says that completely re- pealing the law would, on average, boost the economy by 0.7 percent a year after the start of the '20s. That's mostly because more peo- ple would enter the work- force or work more hours to make up for the lack of gov- ernment health care subsi- dies. But the positive economic effects of repeal would fade over time, the budget agency said, offset by the increased budget deficits. Repeal of the excise tax on high-cost plans is a major reason why deficits would increase in later years, be- cause more and more plans would be hit by this "Cadil- lac tax." The CBO provides law- makers with nonpartisan budget and economic anal- ysis. Republicans control- ling Congress have increas- ingly asked the office to in- corporate a broader range of potential economic con- sequences of major legisla- tion into its work, and Fri- day's report is the first ma- jor study released since GOP appointee Keith Hall took over as CBO director. CBO analysts always cau- tion that their studies of legislation can be uncer- tain, especially over many years. Previously, CBO analyses would not have taken into account such a broad range of economic consequences. The agency said that using its earlier approach would have resulted in a bigger es- timated impact on the defi- cit, an increase of $353 bil- lion over the coming de- cade. Adding the economic factors cuts the repeal's ef- fect on the deficit by more than half over 10 years, the report says. The budget scorekeepers also offered a cautionary note to Congress: Obama's law is by now so enmeshed with the health care system that uprooting it would cre- ate its own issues. The health care law offers subsidized private health insurance policies to peo- ple who don't have access to coverage on the job, along with an expanded version of Medicaid geared to low-in- come adults, in states that have accepted the expan- sion. ACA Report indicates higher deficits, more uninsured if health law tossed out Thiscouldbeyourluckyday by helping a dog or cat find a loving home from... Ad Sponsorship $ 25 Call Suzy 737-5056 RedBluffDailyNews ELI Paws & Claws TEHAMACOUNTYANIMAL SHELTER 1830 Walnut Street P.O. Box 38 • Red Bluff, CA 96080 (530) 527-3439 CORNING ANIMAL SHELTER 4312 Rawson Rd. 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