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oris Nemtsov, a Russian
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BY SIOBHAN HUGHES
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 Congress averted a shutdown of the Department of
Homeland Security by approving a one-week stopgap
bill to extend funding. A1
 The U.S. military is eyeing
a monthslong campaign to
squeeze Islamic State fighters before inserting Iraqi
forces to retake Mosul. A7
 Mexican police arrested
Servando Gómez, head of the
Knights Templar drug cartel. A5
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yet that chronic fatigue syndrome has a biological basis. A3
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Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, a critic of President Vladimir Putin, was gunned down on a bridge near the Kremlin late Friday.
Putin Critic Slain in Moscow
Boris Nemtsov was
branded a traitor by
some after he criticized
Russia’s Ukraine policy
tal killing bears all the hallmarks of a contract murder and
is of an exclusively provocative
character,” Dmitry Peskov,
spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, told Russian news
agencies.
He said Mr. Putin asked to
monitor the investigation personally, and had offered his
deepest condolences to Mr.
Nemtsov’s family.
It was the highest-profile killing of a political figure in more
than a decade, more typical of
the violent years just after the
collapse of the Soviet Union in
BY ALEXANDER KOLYANDR
AND GREGORY L. WHITE
MOSCOW—Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was
gunned down on a bridge next
to the Kremlin late on Friday, in
what authorities said appeared
to be a contract killing.
“The president said this bru-
1991 than of today.
The White House condemned
the “brutal murder” and called
for a “prompt, impartial &
transparent investigation,” in
tweets posted by the U.S. National Security Council.
Mr. Nemtsov, 55 years old,
was killed just yards from Red
Square and the Kremlin wall in
the shadow of the multicolored
domes of St. Basil’s Cathedral,
as he walked across the Bolshoi
Moskvoretsky Bridge around
midnight, on an unseasonably
warm winter night.
Police said the assailants
fired at least six shots from a
passing white car, four which hit
Mr. Nemtsov in the back. A
woman he was walking with was
unhurt, police said, without
identifying her.
Police said they had deployed
extra officers and issued a special citywide alert for the killers,
who remained at large early Saturday. The area near the Kremlin is one of the highest-security
locations in the capital, with
dozens of video cameras and
other monitoring devices installed.
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U.S. Limits Spy Aid Given to Ukraine
BY ADAM ENTOUS
AND JULIAN E. BARNES
them, the U.S. blacks out military
staging areas on Russian territory and reduces the resolution
so that enemy formations can’t
be clearly made out, making
them less useful to Ukrainian
military commanders, according
to U.S. officials briefed on the intelligence-sharing program.
Those steps, which delay the
delivery of the images by at least
24 hours, are designed to keep
the U.S. out of the so-called kill
chain—military jargon for the
stages of lethal operations—be-
WASHINGTON—The U.S. is
providing spy-satellite imagery
to Ukraine to help in its fight
against Russia-backed rebels, but
with a catch: The images are significantly degraded to avoid provoking Russia or compromising
U.S. secrets.
The White House agreed last
year to Ukraine’s request to provide the photos and other intelligence. But before delivering
Where Do You Buy Your Snail Slime?
A Push to Shop Local
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In Thailand, professor promotes
homegrown ooze to fight wrinkles
BY JAMES HOOKWAY
BANGKOK—Why pay for expensive imported snails to ooze
slime all over your face when local snails can do it better?
The supposedly rejuvenating
properties of snail mucus are a
surprise hit in Japan and South
Korea. There are snail creams,
snail masks and snail lotions, all
blended for different skin types.
Devotees say they help ward off
wrinkles and leave their faces
looking younger. Even in France
people are beginning to realize
that there might be more to escargot than just cooking them in
garlic and butter.
But Bangkok-based biology
professor Somsak Panha questions why so many Thais are
now buying up foreign snail
creams and lotions when they
can use their own.
“Instead of flying to other
countries to buy snail slime, I
would like to ask people this:
What’s wrong with snail slime
from Thailand?” says Mr. Somsak, gently rubbing the shell of a
pebble-size snail until its mucus
begins to drip down his forearm.
“We should be proud of our own
snails and support them.”
He says tropical snails such as
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his favorite, Hemiplecta distincta, secrete a more potent
mucus, packed with antioxidants
and complex chemical compounds such as hyaluronic acid,
which helps cells repair themselves. These aren’t as prevalent,
he says, in the slime of gastropods farmed in more temperate
places such as Chile or South
Korea.
So, to help remedy matters
Mr. Somsak, 56 years old, is tapping his three decades of experience teaching snail biology to
launch a company with Thailand’s Chulalongkorn University.
Siam Snail Co. Ltd. is starting
slowly at first, distributing sample lotions to spas and hotels
around Bangkok. Mr. Somsak
says that promoting Thai snails
could help defend the militaryruled state from invasive foreign
species; health inspectors are already investigating some snail
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Hemiplecta distincta
cause of concerns that furnishing
tactical intelligence to the Ukrainians could trigger a more aggressive Russian military response.
The images also are being obscured to reduce the risk that, if
the Russians were to obtain
them, they could glean important
intelligence about U.S. satellite
capabilities.
The U.S. effort to keep its distance goes beyond intelligence
sharing. Last fall, the U.S. delivered short-range radars to
Ukraine to help its forces pinpoint incoming mortar and artillery fire, but withheld key components needed to make the
system more effective, according
to U.S. and Ukrainian officials.
Ukrainian officials say the
limitations have hampered the
ability of their forces to counter
separatists who receive advanced
training and equipment from
Moscow. Russia has consistently
denied aiding the rebels.
The separatists gained signifiPlease see UKRAINE page A6
A MOTHER’S CHOICE:
JIHAD OR PRISON
U.K. woman now regrets cooperating with police
to get her son and his friend to return from Syria fight
BY ALEXIS FLYNN AND JENNY GROSS
BIRMINGHAM, England—Majida Sarwar searched the bedroom of her 21-year-old son five
days after he left on what he
had said was a university-sponsored trip. Mrs. Sarwar found a
frightening six-page letter, addressed, “DEAR MUM PLEASE
READ,” that sent her to police.
“As you know, I have gone
for a holiday, but the real purpose is to do Jihad for Allah,”
the May 2013 letter began. It
ended saying he was headed to
Syria, where, citing religion, “I
will help the oppressed and
fight Allah’s enemies.”
Mrs. Sarwar and her husband
worked with U.K. authorities to
help retrieve their son and his
boyhood friend from an al
Qaeda-linked rebel group fighting to topple Syrian President
Bashar al-Assad.
Months later, the young men,
apparently disillusioned with
the war, agreed to return home.
They were arrested on arrival at
London’s Heathrow Airport and
sentenced in December to more
than 12 years in prison, the longest penalty imposed in the U.K.
Yusuf Sarwar, left, and Mohammed Nahin Ahmed, in police photos.
so far for traveling to fight in
Syria. Mrs. Sarwar, angry over
the sentence, says she regrets
turning in her son.
As Western countries try to
figure out how to keep young
people from the lure of Islamic
State and other terror groups,
the U.K. has turned to Muslim
women in a program launched
last year to help spot radicalism sprouting in their families.
The idea is to intercept family
members before they leave.
Other intervention programs
have been started in Denmark,
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 The U.S. is giving Ukraine
degraded spy-satellite imagery
to avoid provoking Russia or
compromising U.S. secrets. A1
David Maung/Bloomberg News
 The Obama administration
is significantly playing down the
utility of using military force to
deny Iran an atomic bomb. A7
WASHINGTON—Congress
temporarily avoided a partial
shutdown of the Homeland Security Department Friday night,
approving a one-week extension
of the agency’s funding as its
midnight deadline approached.
Support for the one-week
patch came together Friday
night hours after a three-week
short-term spending bill was defeated in the House in a blow to
the chamber’s GOP leaders.
After watching top House Republicans’ plan derail Friday afternoon, House Democrats
helped GOP leaders find the
votes to pass the one-week funding measure Friday night in a
357-60 vote. House Republican
leaders brought the one-week
bill to the floor under a fasttrack procedure that required a
two-thirds majority for passage.
The Senate earlier in the evening approved the one-week bill
by a voice vote and the White
House was expected to sign it.
GOP lawmakers have been
wrestling for weeks over
whether to use Homeland Security funding to block implementation of President Barack
Obama’s executive action on immigration. The president in November said he would bypass
Congress to issue work permits
and offer safe harbor from deportation to millions of illegal
immigrants.
The House passed a bill in
January that would fund the department through September
and block the administration’s
action. Over the past few weeks,
that bill was blocked by Democrats in the Senate, and this
week Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) agreed
to bring to the floor a bill that
didn’t include the immigration
language. It passed Friday 68-31.
Republicans in the House, intent on using the spending bill
to demand immigration changes,
sought to merge the chamber’s
bills but were unlikely to succeed. Mr. McConnell set up a
Monday vote on starting formal
negotiations, but Democrats
were expected to block them.
Republicans said they expected that next week the House
would end up going along with
the Senate’s bill funding Homeland Security through September
without immigration changes. “I
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France and Australia.
But the experience of the
Sarwar family illustrates the
difficulties, and it may give
pause to parents who face the
choice for their sons and
daughters of a militant’s death
abroad or a lengthy prison
term at home.
“The feeling in the Muslim
community was, ‘Are you kidding me?’ ” said Farooq Siddique, a former adviser to the
British government’s anti-extremism campaign. “You are efPlease see TERROR page A8
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