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ByColleenBarry and Frank Jordans The Associated Press MILAN A routine request for ID papers outside a de- serted train station in Milan at 3 a.m. Friday led to a po- lice shootout that killed the Tunisian fugitive wanted in the deadly Christmas mar- ket attack in Berlin. While authorities ex- pressed relief that the search for Anis Amri was over, his four-day run raised fresh questions about whether he had any accom- plices and how Europe can stop extremists from mov- ing freely across its open borders, even amid an in- tense manhunt. Italian police said Amri traveled from Germany through France and into Italy after Monday night's truck rampage in Berlin, and at least some of his jour- ney was by rail. French offi- cials refused to comment on his passage through France, which has increased sur- veillance on trains after re- cent attacks in France and Germany. Italian Premier Paolo Gentiloni called for greater cross-border police coop- eration, suggesting some dismay that Europe's open frontier policy had enabled Amri to move around eas- ily despite being its No. 1 fu- gitive. Amri, whose fingerprints and wallet were found in the truck that plowed into Christmas market outside Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, killing 12 people and injuring 56 others, was caught seem- ingly by chance after elud- ing police for more than three days. "He was a ghost," Milan police chief Antoio de Iesu said, adding that Amri was stopped because of basic police work, intensified sur- veillance "and a little luck." Like other cities, Milan has been on heightened alert, with increased sur- veillance and police patrols. Italian officials stressed that the two young officers who stopped Amri didn't suspect he was the Berlin attacker, but rather grew suspicious because he was a North African man, alone outside a deserted train sta- tion in the dead of night. Amri, who had spent time in prison in Italy, was confronted by the officers in the Sesto San Giovanni neighborhood of Milan. He pulled a gun from his back- pack after being asked to show his ID and was killed in an ensuing shootout. One of the officers, Chris- tian Movio, 35, was shot in the right shoulder and had surgery for what doc- tors said was a superficial wound. His 29-year-old partner, Luca Scata, fatally shot Amri in the chest. The suspect had no ID or cellphone and carried only a pocket knife and the loaded .22-caliber pistol he used to shoot Movio, police said. He was identified with the help of fingerprints sup- plied by Germany. The Islamic State group has claimed responsibil- ity for Monday's attack. On Friday, it noted his death in Milan and released a sepa- rate video showing Amri swearing allegiance to the group's leader, Abu Bakr al- Baghdadi, while vowing to fight non-Muslims. The video, which ap- peared to have been taken by Amri himself, showed him on a footbridge in northern Berlin, not far from where the truck used in the attack was hijacked. It was not known when the video was taken. German authorities were suspicious of Amri and had put him under covert sur- veillance for six months fol- lowing a warning from in- telligence agencies that he might be planning an at- tack. But the surveillance ended in September after police found no proof of his alleged plans. Separately, German au- thorities tried to deport Amri after his asylum ap- plication was rejected in July but were unable to do so because he lacked valid identity papers, and Tunisia initially denied that he was a citizen. Authorities said he has used at least six dif- ferent names and three na- tionalities. Even as she voiced relief at the news from Milan, German Chancellor An- gela Merkel ordered a com- prehensive investigation to determine whether mis- takes had been made and legal hurdles had hampered the authorities' handling of the case. "We can be relieved at the end of this week that one acute danger has been ended," she said in Berlin. "But the danger of terror- ism as a whole remains, as it has for many years — we all know that." Amri passed through France before arriving by train at Milan's central sta- tion where video surveil- lance showed him at about 1 a.m. Friday, de Iesu said. A Milan anti-terrorism official, who spoke on con- dition of anonymity be- cause he was not authorized to talk publicly about the in- vestigation, said Amri made his way to the piazza out- side the Sesto San Giovanni train station that is 7.5 kilo- meters (nearly 5 miles) from the main station. Authorities are still try- ing to determine how Amri arrived at the piazza be- cause only a few buses op- erate at that hour. "It is now of great signif- icance for us to establish whether the suspect had a network of supporters or helpers in preparing and carrying out the crime, and in fleeing, whether there were accessories or help- ers," said Germany's chief federal prosecutor, Peter Frank, who heads the in- vestigation. GERMANY Be rl in a tt ac k su sp ec t ki ll ed i n sh oo to ut w it h Mi la n po li ce By Edith M. Lederer, Bradley Klapper and Josef Federman The Associated Press UNITEDNATIONS In a strik- ing rupture with past prac- tice, the United States al- lowed the U.N. Security Council on Friday to con- demn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem as a "flagrant vi- olation" of international law. In doing so, the out- going Obama administra- tion brushed aside Donald Trump's demands that the U.S. exercise its veto and provided a climax to years of icy relations with Israel's leadership. The decision to abstain from the council's 14-0 vote is one of the biggest American rebukes of its longstanding ally in recent memory. And it could have significant ramifications for the Jewish state, po- tentially hindering Israel's negotiating position in fu- ture peace talks. Given the world's widespread opposi- tion to settlements, the ac- tion will be almost impos- sible for anyone, including Trump, to reverse. Nevertheless, Trump vowed via Twitter: "As to the U.N., things will be dif- ferent after Jan. 20th." The resolution said Isra- el's settlements in lands the Palestinians want to include in their future state have "no legal validity." It de- manded a halt to such activ- ities for the sake of "salvag- ing the two-state solution." Loud applause erupted in the council chamber after U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power permitted the resolu- tion to pass. Friday's condemnation, a day after Egypt suddenly postponed a scheduled showdown, capped days of frantic diplomacy in capi- tals around the world. American officials indi- cated they would have been prepared to let the resolu- tion pass, despite blocking such proposals for years. Is- raeli officials said they were aware of such plans and turned to Trump for sup- port. The U.S. president- elect sent a tweet urging President Barack Obama to block the U.N. effort. Egypt then pulled its reso- lution, with U.S. officials cit- ing fierce Israeli pressure as the reason. Israeli officials then ac- cused Obama of colluding with the Palestinians in a "shameful move" against the Jewish state. Washing- ton denied the charge. Most of the world is op- posed to Israel's construc- tion of Jewish settlements in lands it seized in the 1967 Mideast War. The primary holdout at the U.N. has been the United States, which sees settlements as illegit- imate but has traditionally used its veto power as a per- manent member of the Se- curity Council to block such resolutions on the grounds that Israeli-Palestinian dis- putes should be addressed through negotiation. Underscoring that unity, Friday's resolution was pro- posed by nations in four dif- ferent parts of the world: Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal and Venezuela. It is the first resolution on settlements to pass in 36 years, Malaysia's U.N. Am- bassador Ramlan Bin Ibra- him said. Explaining the U.S. vote, Power quoted a 1982 state- ment from then-U.S. Presi- dent Ronald Reagan, which declared that Washington "will not support the use of any additional land for the purpose of settlements." "That has been the pol- icy of every administration, Republican and Democrat, since before President Rea- gan and all the way through to the present day," Power said. "One would think that it would be a routine vote," Power said. But she ac- knowledged that, in reality, the vote was "not straight- forward" because it oc- curred at the United Na- tions, a body that has sin- gled out Israel for criticism for decades. MIDDLE EAST United Nations condemns Israeli settlements as Obama declines to use veto DANIELEBENNATI—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Italian police cordon off an area around a body a er a shootout between police and a man in Milan's Sesto San Giovanni neighborhood early Friday. Corning's Annual Community Resource Guide PublishDate:Tuesday,January31,2017 2017 10% OFF your ad in each section when you buy an ad in Corning 2017 & Red Bluff 2017 Corning is on the map! Put your business on the map with it! 20,000 + readership! 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