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Ohio Terror Suspect profiled as face of Muslim persecution? (Archive from Detroit Free Press, 2002)
Detroit Free Press ^
| January 31, 2006
| MICK McCABE
Posted on 08/10/2006 9:20:22 AM PDT by americaprd
For one particular sophomore at Dearborn Fordson, the teasing began a few days after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
"Hey, bin Laden," fellow students would yell in his direction as he walked the hallways. Others would point and call him "the terror squad."
Why would students single out someone to be teased about Osama bin Laden, good-natured or not? Well, it doesn't help that his first name is Osama.
Osama Abulhassan is a sophomore on Fordson's varsity basketball team. Having Osama as a name today must be like having had the name Adolf in 1943.
Sobhi and Wardeh Abulhassan came to the United States from Lebanon almost 26 years ago. They named the last of their five children Osama.
"They named me after a prophet," Abulhassan said. "He was a holy man."
From holy man to oh-holy-cow in five short months.
"I didn't hear of bin Laden until three years ago when he was in the news," Abulhassan said. "I didn't think anything of it until Sept. 11. Then I got a little worried."
Who wouldn't worry? Fordson has a large population of Americans of Middle Eastern descent, but Osama is not a common name.
"I don't know anyone here by that name," Abulhassan said. "I know of a couple in junior high named Osama. If my last name was close to bin Laden it might be a problem."
The good news is that Abulhassan hasn't encountered any problems from other teams.
No defender has said anything stupid to try to throw him off his game. No opposing player has made any bad jokes.
"I don't know, maybe they don't know my name," Abulhassan said.
I would like to think that even if opposing players know his first name is Osama, they are mature enough not to cause trouble.
That was not the case about a decade ago when the United States was involved in the Gulf War.
Fordson was singled out by some other schools as if Saddam Hussein was on staff.
Outrageous rumors flew, including one that some Fordson students had bombed Telegraph Road.
Conference officials called a special meeting, and some schools considered boycotting their games against Fordson -- home and away -- or trying to force Fordson out of the league.
"I got a call from someone asking if it was safe to come into the building," Fordson athletic director Mark Shooshanian said.
It didn't help that during pregame warm-ups in one of Fordson's first home basketball games after the Gulf War began, the Gap Band's song "You Dropped a Bomb on Me" blared over the loudspeakers. But not for long.
Thankfully, no one has any qualms about coming to Fordson's gym these days.
"People have been more sensitive to the situation," Shooshanian said. "Overall, our league has been fine. The athletic directors and the coaches understand the situation."
But I have to admit, it was a shocker seeing the name Osama in the Fordson scorebook.
"I'm not ashamed of my name," Abulhassan said. "My parents named me that and I'm proud of it."
Of course, that does not mean he is a bin Laden fan.
"He's fighting for a cause like the United States is," Abulhassan said. "But he's killing innocent people and that makes him appear to be a bad guy."
Abulhassan is at the opposite end of the good guy/bad guy spectrum.
A year ago he earned a 3.9 grade-point average, and he expects a 4.0 from the first semester this academic year.
He competes in football, basketball, track and baseball. He hopes to go to law school, but his first goal centers around basketball. A couple of weeks ago he scored 16 points against main rival Dearborn.
"My dream my whole life is to be able to play college basketball," Abulhassan said. "I'm just cherishing the opportunity I have now to play on the varsity. Hopefully, it will help me in the future."
Can you imagine what the Cameron Crazies at Duke would do to an opposing player named Osama?
Abulhassan would like to find out.
Contact MICK McCABE at 313-223-4744 or mccabe@freepress.com.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Michigan; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abulhassan; atta; carocell; osamaabulhassan
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To: MikeA
"No more student visas, no more tourist entries, no more flights into this country from Islamic country, no more of these people in our country anymore."
OBVIOUSLY this should have been done years ago. However, we will not be able to deport any Muslims who are US Citizens, and in Britain at least it is the native born "youth" who are the problem.
However, the fact that we fail to control our borders at the airports is a disgrace. No doubt it is very, extremely difficult to stop people from crossing over the Mexican and Canadian borders, but it would be very, extremely easy for us to prevent Egyptian "students" from entering the US via JFK airport.
How many more innocent people will be killed before we really start to take the jihadis who want to kill each and every one of us seriously?
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posted on
08/10/2006 9:50:35 AM PDT
by
jocon307
(The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
To: americaprd
From the article, speaking on OBL:
"He's fighting for a cause like the United States is," Abulhassan said. "But he's killing innocent people and that makes him appear to be a bad guy."
Why, yes, he does appear that way...
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posted on
08/10/2006 9:54:22 AM PDT
by
polymuser
(There is one enemy and one war.)
To: americaprd
"Abulhassan is at the opposite end of the good guy/bad guy spectrum.
A year ago he earned a 3.9 grade-point average, and he expects a 4.0 from the first semester this academic year.
He competes in football, basketball, track and baseball. He hopes to go to law school, but his first goal centers around basketball. A couple of weeks ago he scored 16 points against main rival Dearborn."
LOL! And he plotted to KILL YOU!! What a model young man. That's what happens when you write glowing articles about people you don't even know.
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posted on
08/10/2006 9:56:49 AM PDT
by
L98Fiero
(I'm worth a million in prizes.)
To: beltfed308
No sympathy here. I didn't have the facts or the whole story. I retract my comments.
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posted on
08/10/2006 10:03:50 AM PDT
by
SHARI BABY
(ain't that a kick in the pants)
To: MikeA
Hard to bear, must be done.
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posted on
08/10/2006 10:07:58 AM PDT
by
SHARI BABY
(ain't that a kick in the pants)
To: jocon307
However, we will not be able to deport any Muslims who are US CitizensThese guys appear to be Home Grown Terrorists.
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posted on
08/10/2006 10:08:52 AM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: jocon307
Hit the button too soon - Not only do these guys appear to be home grown, but in the wee hours this morning Sky News reported the guys rounded up in England were also home grown.
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posted on
08/10/2006 10:10:06 AM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
To: americaprd
This article might interest you (especially the bold hightlights)
Excerpts from:
All-American Terrorists: How Dearbornistan Boys Went From Football Field to Islamic Terror; TracFone Detonators & Passenger Lists
By Debbie Schlussel
"...Take Ali Houssaiky of Dearborn, Michigan, currently residing in a holding cell in an Ohio jail.
...Osma Sabhi Abulhassan & Ali Houssaiky
In 2003, he was an Honorable Mention on the Michigan Class-A All-State Football Team. The Fordson High School Football Team he co-captained was hailed in USA Today for its observance of Ramadan fasting. In 2004, he got a full scholarship to play football at Grand Valley State University. And now in 2006, this All-American running back is a...They admitted to buying over 600 pay-as-you-go TracFone cellphones, removing the chips, and selling them to their "boss" for $5 (each) over the cost of the phones. The chips are used in bombs by Islamic terrorist groups and have been used to detonate many carbombs. And their "boss" is the subject of an open investigation by the FBI.
Washington County, Ohio Sheriff Larry Mincks--whose men arrested the two--says there are frequent visits to the area by Middle Eastern men driving rental cars usually from Michigan or Virginia, "trying to purchase as many TracFones as they can," and shipping them to the Middle East. Now, I know why it's so hard for me to find a TracFone. Store clerks at CVS et al say Arabs all over the Detroit area have been buying them out in bulk amounts. After an arraignment hearing in an Ohio courtroom, Houssaiky shouted to reporters that he was "doing my job." Just what was his "job"? Do Homeland Security and the FBI want to face facts that these are not the only two Muslim All-American boys raised in this country performing that "job"?
Houssaiky's alma mater, Dearborn's Fordson High School, is the most Muslim populated public high school in America. Hate is prevalent in the tax-funded school, and many of its students have been participating in the pro-Hezbollah rallies in town. The school is "Hezbollah High." Did Houssaiky learn it is okay to participate in this "job" from his peers there? From his mosque? Or some other Dearbornistan institution?
In the face of mounting evidence against her brother, Diana Houssaiky claims the arrest of her brother is discrimination because "his name is Ali and his friends name is Osma." Actually, the discrimination is that Washington County, Ohio Deputy Sheriffs--instead of immediately cuffing the potential terrorists--gave them bottled water and let them sit in the grass to drink it.
The Houssaiky family has called the Michigan American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee to complain about the arrest and ensuing investigation. The organization, headed by "former" Islamic terrorist and FBI award revokee Imad Hamad, is telling people "not to rush to judgment."
...600 cellphone chips. A boss under investigation by the FBI. $10,000 in cash. Passenger lists from flights and info on airport security checkpoints. Lying to police about it. They hail from Dearborn, home to thousands of Hezbollah-supporting Islamists. And we are not supposed to "rush to judgment"?
**** More coverage from:
AP,The Marietta Times,Detroit's WXYZ-TV/Channel 7 (Print & Video),West Virginia's WTAP, See here also (Print & Video @ both links)
To: americaprd; Admin Moderator
Date of article field should also be 2002
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posted on
08/10/2006 10:17:32 AM PDT
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
To: MikeA
for me, Islam has shown itself to be a failed ideology/religion that is even worse than the branch dividians of waco.
We got rid of them, we need to think about getting rid of islam.
We have little tolerance for the neo nazi, the jim jones kool aid drinkers and others.
Islam has gone over the line.
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posted on
08/10/2006 10:18:05 AM PDT
by
staytrue
To: WmShirerAdmirer
who makes trac fones ?
can we buy the company and insert an extra chip where we can remotely enter via a software back door and detonate the bombs ?
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posted on
08/10/2006 10:19:52 AM PDT
by
staytrue
To: americaprd
-"He's fighting for a cause like the United States is," Abulhassan said. "But he's killing innocent people and that makes him appear to be a bad guy."-
I can't tell if this is a result of family brainwashing or school indoctrination. That's pretty sad.
To: americaprd
YOU JUST CAN'T INTERPRET YOUR WAY OUT OF THIS STUFF!
MUSLIMS INSTRUCTED TO KILL CHRISTIANS AND JEWS [9:29-30] JUST FOR SPEAKING AGAINST ISLAM [9:32]!
KORAN [9.29] Fight those who do not believe in Allah, nor in the latter day, nor do they prohibit what Allah and His Apostle have prohibited, nor follow the religion of truth, out of those who have been given the Book,
until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection.
KORAN [9.30] And the
Jews say: Uzair [Ezra] is the son of Allah; and the
Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before;
may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!
FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS PROHIBITED:
KORAN [9.32] They desire to put out the light of Allah with their mouths, and Allah will not consent save to perfect His light, though the unbelievers are averse.
THIS IS MUHAMMAD'S EXAMPLE JUSTIFYING THE KILLING OF DUTCH FILM MAKER THEO van GOGH:
Hadith Sahih Muslim, Book 19, Chapter 41: THE MURDER OF KA'B B. ASHRAF, (THE EVIL GENIUS) OF THE JEWS [for authoring songs and jokes about Muhammad]
HADITH Sahih Muslim [19:4436] It has been narrated on the authority of Jabir that
the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said:
Who will kill Ka'b b. Ashraf? He has maligned Allah, the Exalted, and His Messenger. Muhammad b. Maslama said: Messenger of Allah, do you wish that I should kill him? He said: Yes. He said: Permit me to talk (to him in the way I deem fit). He said: Talk (as you like). So, Muhammad b. Maslama came to Ka'b and talked to him, referred to the old friendship between them and said: This man (i. e. the Holy Prophet) has made up his mind to collect charity (from us) and this has put us to a great hardship. When be heard this, Ka'b said: By God, you will be put to more trouble by him. Muhammad b. Maslama said: No doubt, now we have become his followers and we do not like to forsake him until we see what turn his affairs will take. I want that you should give me a loan. He said: What will you mortgage? He said: What do you want? He said: Pledge me your women. He said: You are the most handsome of the Arabs; should we pledge our women to you? He said: Pledge me your children. He said: The son of one of us may abuse us saying that he was pledged for two wasqs of dates, but we can pledge you (cur) weapons. He said: All right. Then Muhammad b. Maslama promised that he would come to him with Harith, Abu 'Abs b. Jabr and Abbad b. Bishr. So they came and called upon him at night. He came down to them. Sufyan says that all the narrators except 'Amr have stated that his wife said: I hear a voice which sounds like the voice of murder. He said: It is only Muhammad b. Maslama and his foster-brother, Abu Na'ila. When a gentleman is called at night even it to be pierced with a spear, he should respond to the call. Muhammad said to his companions: As he comes down, I will extend my hands towards his head and when I hold him fast, you should do your job. So when he came down and he was holding his cloak under his arm, they said to him: We sense from you a very fine smell. He said: Yes, I have with me a mistress who is the most scented of the women of Arabia. He said: Allow me to smell (the scent on your head). He said: Yes, you may smell. So he caught it and smelt. Then he said: Allow me to do so (once again). He then held his head fast and said to his companions: Do your job.
And they killed him.
APOSTATES AND "young people with foolish thoughts"
TO BE KILLED BY ANYONE WHO FINDS THEM (e.g. honor killings):
KORAN [4.89] They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore
take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [4:52:260] Narrated Ikrima:
Ali burnt some people and this news reached Ibn 'Abbas, who said, "Had I been in his place I would not have burnt them, as the Prophet said, 'Don't punish (anybody) with Allah's Punishment.' No doubt, I would have killed them, for
the Prophet said, 'If somebody (a Muslim) discards his religion, kill him.' "
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [6:61:577] Narrated 'Ali:
I heard the Prophet saying, "In the last days (of the world)
there will appear young people with foolish thoughts and ideas. They will give good talks, but they will go out of Islam as an arrow goes out of its game, their faith will not exceed their throats.
So, wherever you find them, kill them, for there will be a reward for their killers on the Day of Resurrection."
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [9:84:64] Narrated 'Ali:
Whenever I tell you a narration from Allah's Apostle, by Allah, I would rather fall down from the sky than ascribe a false statement to him, but if I tell you something between me and you (not a Hadith) then it was indeed a trick (i.e., I may say things just to cheat my enemy).
No doubt I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "During the last days there will appear some young foolish people who will say the best words but their faith will not go beyond their throats (i.e. they will have no faith) and will go out from (leave) their religion as an arrow goes out of the game. So, where-ever you find them, kill them, for who-ever kills them shall have reward on the Day of Resurrection."
AND MODERATE MUSLIMS TOO:
HADITH Sahih Muslim [5:2325] Abu Sa'id al-Khudri reported that the Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) said:
A group would secede itself (from the Ummah) when there would be dissension among the Muslims. Out of the two groups who would be nearer the truth would kill them.
Unlike Christians, Muslims can pretend to deny their faith to fool unbelievers (Al-Taqiyyah):
KORAN [16.106] He who disbelieves in Allah after his having believed,
not he who is compelled while his heart is at rest on account of faith, but he who opens (his) breast to disbelief-- on these is the wrath of Allah, and they shall have a grievous chastisement.
UNEQUAL JUSTICE:
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [4:52:283] Narrated Abu Juhaifa:
I asked Ali, "Do you have the knowledge of any Divine Inspiration besides what is in Allah's Book?" 'Ali replied, "...we have what is written in this paper as well." I asked, "What is written in this paper?" He replied, "...the judgment that
no Muslim should be killed for killing an infidel."
HADITH Sunan Abu Dawud [14:2526] Narrated Anas ibn Malik:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: Three things are the
roots of faith: to refrain from (killing) a person who utters, "There is no god but Allah" and not to declare him unbeliever whatever sin he commits, and not to excommunicate him from Islam for his any action; and jihad will be performed continuously since the day Allah sent me as a prophet until the day the last member of my community will fight with the Dajjal (Antichrist). The tyranny of any tyrant and the justice of any just (ruler) will not invalidate it. One must have faith in Divine decree.
WOMEN (and girls) IN ISLAM:
KORAN [2.223] Your wives are a tilth for you, so go into your tilth when you like, and do good beforehand for yourselves, and be careful (of your duty) to Allah, and know that you will meet Him, and give good news to the believers.
KORAN [4.34] Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to excel others and because they spend out of their property; the good women are therefore obedient, guarding the unseen as Allah has guarded; and (as to) those on whose part you fear desertion,
admonish them, and leave them alone in the sleeping-places and beat them; then if they obey you, do not seek a way against them; surely Allah is High, Great.
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [7:62:67] Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "A matron should not be given in marriage except after consulting her; and
a virgin should not be given in marriage except after her permission." The people asked, "O Allah's Apostle! How can we know her permission?" He said,
"Her silence (indicates her permission)."
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [5:58:234] Narrated Aisha:
The Prophet engaged me when I was a girl of six (years). We went to Medina and stayed at the home of Bani-al-Harith bin Khazraj. Then I got ill and my hair fell down. Later on my hair grew (again) and my mother, Um Ruman, came to me while I was playing in a swing with some of my girl friends. She called me, and I went to her, not knowing what she wanted to do to me. She caught me by the hand and made me stand at the door of the house. I was breathless then, and when my breathing became Allright, she took some water and rubbed my face and head with it. Then she took me into the house. There in the house I saw some Ansari women who said, "Best wishes and Allah's Blessing and a good luck." Then she entrusted me to them and they prepared me (for the marriage).
Unexpectedly Allah's Apostle came to me in the forenoon and my mother handed me over to him, and at that time I was a girl of nine years of age.
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [7:62:64] Narrated 'Aisha:
that the Prophet married her when she was six years old and
he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old, and then she remained with him for nine years (i.e., till his death).
THE JOOOOOOZ IN ISLAM:
KORAN [9.30] And the
Jews say: Uzair [Ezra] is the son of Allah; and the
Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before;
may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!
KORAN [5.51] O you who believe! do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whoever amongst you takes them for a friend, then surely he is one of them; surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [4:52:176] Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar:
Allah's Apostle said,
"You (i.e. Muslims) will fight with the Jews till some of them will hide behind stones. The stones will (betray them) saying, 'O 'Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.' "
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [4:52:177] Narrated Abu Huraira:
Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a
Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a
Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."
HADITH Sahih Bukhari [4:56:791] Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar:
I heard Allah's Apostle saying, "The
Jews will fight with you, and you will be given victory over them so that a stone will say, 'O Muslim! There is a
Jew behind me; kill him!' "
HADITH Sahih Muslim [41:6981] Ibn 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
You will fight against the
Jews and you will kill them until even a stone would say: Come here, Muslim, there is a
Jew (hiding himself behind me); kill him.
HADITH Sahih Muslim [41:6982] Ubaidullah has reported this hadith with this chain of transmitters (and the Words are):
"There is a
Jew behind me."
HADITH Sahih Muslim [41:6983] Abdullah b. 'Umar reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
You and the
Jews would fight against one another until a stone would say: Muslim, here is a
Jew behind me; come and kill him.
HADITH Sahih Muslim [41:6984] Abdullah b. 'Umar reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said:
The
Jews will fight against you and you will gain victory over them until the stone would say: Muslim, here is a
Jew behind me; kill him.
HADITH Sahih Muslim [41:6985] Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying:
The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the
Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the
Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a
Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the
Jews.
© Religion of Peace
KORAN (Shakir translation): http://www.hti.umich.edu/k/koran/HADITH: http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/searchhadith.html
ISLAM DELENDA EST!
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posted on
08/10/2006 10:25:01 AM PDT
by
UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
(Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
To: americaprd
Is Fordson a college or high school?
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posted on
08/10/2006 10:31:55 AM PDT
by
Muzzle_em
(taglines are for sissies)
To: pissant
"Is this the same guy???????"
I just e-mailed Mick McCabe and asked him. I'll let you know if I get an answer. (Crickets chirping)
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posted on
08/10/2006 10:57:13 AM PDT
by
hotshu
To: Muzzle_em
A high school. Sorry, this was originally posted in 2002
To: americaprd
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posted on
08/10/2006 11:06:31 AM PDT
by
BJClinton
(What happens on Free Republic, stays on Google.)
To: pissant
Same Guy?
I actually got a reply from the author of the article:
"Yes, it he appears he is the same guy. He played football, basketball, baseball and ran track at Dearborn Fordson. On top of that he was a 3.95 student with a 29 on the ACT."
I guess Mick just can't bring himself to admit that Osama might have a mean streak in him. Just Damn!
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posted on
08/10/2006 12:31:14 PM PDT
by
hotshu
To: hotshu
Mean streak? If only. These people are evil, rotten feces.
thanks for checking.
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posted on
08/10/2006 12:35:55 PM PDT
by
pissant
To: hotshu
I got the same reply from the reporter.
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