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ByReginaGarciaCano and James Macpherson The Associated Press CANNONBALL,N.D. Protest- ers at the demonstration against the Dakota Access pipeline are increasingly divided over how to stop the project, with militant younger activists seeking more aggressive tactics and an older crowd arguing for peaceful protest centered on prayer. The differences came to a head last week after law enforcement officers in riot gear forced hundreds of protesters off an encamp- ment on private property. In response, some demon- strators torched three vehi- cles on a bridge, creating a blockade that effectively cut off easy access to the pipe- line construction zone and made it far harder for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and nearby residents to get to Bismarck for errands and medical appointments. Many other protesters in- sist that their cause cannot resort to law breaking, and they support the threat of eviction that the main camp has issued against instiga- tors. "We don't want people instigating things that are going to get out of hand. We don't need them," said Don Cuny, chief of security for the large camp near the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers. With the potential for more violence, tribal elders have asked that children be removed from the camp. "They want the kids out of here if things get ugly," said Emmett White Temple, a 55-year-old member of the Standing Rock Sioux. The sprawling encamp- ment known as Oceti Sa- kowin, or Seven Coun- cil Fires camp, is on Army Corps of Engineers land. Within it are smaller camps occupied by protesters from across the U.S. and beyond. Residents are coy about singling out the group or groups that set the vehicles on fire, but they overwhelm- ingly point to a young crowd of campers. For months now, oppo- nents of the four-state, $3.8 billion pipeline have been camping in this area about 50 miles south of Bismarck. They worry the pipeline will disturb cultural artifacts and threaten drinking wa- ter sources on the Standing Rock Sioux's nearby reser- vation and downstream. The pipeline's operator, Texas-based Energy Trans- fer Partners, insists the project is safe. The tribe is fighting the pipeline's per- mitting process in federal court. Tribal elders condemned the destruction of the vehi- cles, White Temple said. "People were getting chewed out for the aggres- sion," he said of a meeting Sunday at the main protest camp. "We have to keep on with prayer, but those people are still digging that pipeline," he said. Others believe "vi- olence gets action." Over the weekend, con- struction crews worked right next to the camp that authorities cleared Thurs- day, when they arrested more than 140 people. Win- ter clothing, propane tanks, wood, tires, bottled water and other items belonging to the protesters lay next to heavy equipment. The vehicles set on fire were still smoldering Sun- day as at least 10 dozen law enforcement vehicles and officers from different juris- dictions stood just beyond a cement barricade. Cody Hall, a former spokesman for one of the encampment's factions, said the entire camp must remain united to success- fully fight the pipeline. He said the violence seen Thursday was "expected." "I'm not going to say any- thing bad about the fire be- ing put up," Hall said. "It happens and we are deal- ing with it." NORTH DAKOTA Pipeline protesters are increasingly divided over tactics MIKEMCCLEARY—THEBISMARCKTRIBUNE,FILE Dakota Access Pipeline protesters sit in a prayer circle at the Front Line Camp as a line of law enforcement officers make their way across the camp to remove the protesters and relocate to the overflow camp a few miles to the south on Highway 1806in Morton County, N.D. MARKO DROBNJAKOVIC — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Iraqi Federal Police officers observe as air and ground strikes hit the town of Shura, south of Mosul, Iraq, on Saturday. By Qassim Abdul-Zahra The Associated Press BAZWAYA, IRAQ Iraqi spe- cialforcesstoodpoisedtoen- ter Mosul in an offensive to drive out Islamic State mil- itants after sweeping into the last village on the city's eastern edge Monday while fendingoffsuicidecarbombs without losing a soldier. Armored vehicles, includ- ing Abrams tanks, drew fire from mortars and small arms as they moved on the village of Bazwaya in an as- sault that began at dawn, while artillery and air- strikes hit IS positions. By evening, the fight- ing had stopped and units took up positions less than a mile from Mosul's eastern border and about 5 miles from the center, two weeks into the offensive to retake Iraq's second-largest city. "We will enter the city of Mosul soon and liberate it from Daesh," said Brig. Gen. Haider Fadhil of Iraq's spe- cial forces, using an Arabic acronym for the extrem- ists. He added that more than 20 militants had been killed while his forces suf- fered only one light injury from a fall. Three suicide car bomb- ers had tried to stop the ad- vance before the army took control of Bazwaya, but the troops destroyed them, he said. The army said another unit, its 9th Division, had moved toward Mosul and was about 3 miles from its eastern outskirts, the neighborhood of Gogjali. At one point, a Humvee packedwithexplosivesraced ahead and tried to ram the approachingforces,butIraqi troops opened fire, blowing it up. Plumes of smoke rose from IS positions hit by ar- tilleryandairstrikes thatthe army said came from the U.S.-led coalition. State TV described the operation as a "battle of honor" to liberate the city, which was captured by IS from a superior yet ne- glected Iraqi force in 2014. Some residents hung white flags on buildings and windows in a sign they would not resist gov- ernment troops, said Maj. Salam al-Obeidi, a member of the special forces opera- tion in Bazwaya. Since Oct. 17, Iraqi forces and their Kurdish allies, Sunni tribesmen and Shi- ite militias have been con- verging on Mosul from all directions. Entering Gog- jali could be the start of a new slog for the troops, as they'll be forced to engage in difficult, house-to-house fighting in more urban ar- eas. The operation is ex- pected to take weeks, if not months. Special forces poised on eastern edge of Mosul IRAQ By Malcolm Ritter The Associated Press NEW YORK Zika virus rav- ages the testes of male mice, sharply reducing sperm counts and fertil- ity, says a study that raises a new specter about its threat to people. Experiments found tes- tes of infected mice shrank about 90 percent by weight, while their output of useful sperm fell by three-quar- ters on average, and often more. Now it's time to find out if Zika causes similar dam- age in men, experts said. "We just don't know that yet," said Michael Diamond of the Washington Univer- sity School of Medicine in St. Louis, a senior author of the study. The virus is known to infect a man's re- productive system and per- sist in sperm and semen, "so it's in the right place," he said. Diamond said he sus- pects that in mice, the damage is permanent. But mice are not men, and experts unconnected with the study agreed that it can't be assumed that the mouse results apply to people. Zika, which is transmit- ted by the bite of a trop- ical mosquito, is such a mild disease in people that most who get it don't even know they are sick. But it can cause serious birth de- fects if women are infected while pregnant, so health officials have been con- cerned mostly with help- ing women who are preg- nant or about to become pregnant avoid the disease. Dr. Anthony Fauci, di- rector of the National In- stitute of Allergy and Infec- tious Diseases in Bethesda, Maryland, said the study alerts researchers to look for effects in men. "Don't jump to the con- clusion right off that this is definitely what is happen- ing to the human," he said. But the mouse finding is a "red flag you need to pur- sue." The mouse results ap- pear in a paper released Monday by the journal Nature. They show the vi- rus attacks the anatomical structure where sperm are made and reach maturity. Testosterone levels also fell. HEALTH Zika ravages mice testes, raising concern about men FELIPE DANA — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE An Aedes aegypti mosquito known to carry the Zika virus, is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. 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