Posted on 08/01/2008 12:17:04 PM PDT by nwctwx
It is unsettling, but rather simple.
OPINION-SPECULATION:
Those who hate Israel and Jews are moving into place.
What comes next with these types — time will tell.
The others are trying to figure out whether to get off
the fence and take sides or just stay out of the way.
More details update:
http://www.fbi.gov/terrorinfo/siddiqui.htm
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/022077.php
(BOSTON GLOBE)
August 4, 2008
“Al-Qaeda MIT scientist in custody in Afghanistan!”
SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON - Five years after her disappearance, an MIT-trained Pakistani neuroscientist accused of belonging to an Al Qaeda cell based in Boston, is alive and in custody in Afghanistan, her family’s attorney said yesterday.
“It has been confirmed by the FBI that Aafia Siddiqui is alive,” said Elaine Whitfield Sharp, a lawyer for Siddiqui’s family, who said she spoke to an FBI official on Thursday.”
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C07%5C07%5Cstory_7-7-2008_pg7_13
“‘Pakistani woman detained at Bagram airbase’”
By Muhammad Bilal
ISLAMABAD
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http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2372718194
“Pakistan: ‘Al-Qaeda’ woman in Afghan prison, claims activist”
Karachi, 28 July (AKI)
August 1, 2008
http://sandiego.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/sd080108.htm
“TWO PHYSICIANS PLEAD GUILTY IN INTERNATIONAL INTERNET PHARMACY CONSPIRACY”
PRESS RELEASE SNIPPET: “WASHINGTON – Two physicians have pleaded guilty to conspiracy for their participation in an Internet pharmacy business that generated more than $126 million in gross revenues from the illegal sale of prescription pharmaceuticals, Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Karen P. Hewitt for the Southern District of California announced today.
Chandresh Shah, M.D., 51, of Smyrna, Ga., pleaded guilty today in San Diego before U.S. District Judge Irma E. Gonzalez to one count of conspiracy to illegally distribute controlled substances and agreed to forfeit $16,674.
On July 8, 2008, Gerald Morris, M.D., 37, of Houston, also pleaded guilty before Judge Gonzalez to one count of conspiracy to illegally distribute controlled substances and agreed to forfeit $52,446.
Shah and Morris were indicted on July 27, 2007, with 16 other defendants for their role in a conspiracy to operate an international online pharmaceutical distribution network known as Affpower. According to the indictment, the Affpower enterprise sold controlled and non-controlled prescription drugs through numerous affiliated Web sites to customers who lacked prescriptions for the drugs from a personal physician. From August 2004 to June 2006, the Affpower enterprise allegedly received more than one million Internet orders for controlled and non-controlled prescription pharmaceuticals from customers in all 50 U.S. states.”
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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BLOG:
Note: The following blog entry is a quote:
http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/8911.htm
Rafsanjani: Iran Beginning Work On Nuclear Fusion
Iranian Expediency Council chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has announced that Iran is at the beginning of the first stage of nuclear fusion.
He said, “Nuclear fusion is more important and healthier than the nuclear fission presently in use.”
Speaking to a gathering of student political activists, he said that the West would again confront Iran for using nuclear fusion, but that “since we are still at the early stage they will not confront us (now).”
He added that Iran must obtain advanced technologies like the U.S., Russia, China, and Japan in order to reduce the technological gap between it and these countries, and in order to “break the monopoly of global powers over advanced technology.”
Sources: Kayhan, Iran Daily, Iran, August 2, 2008; Al-Madina, Saudi Arabia, Al-Khaleej, UAE, August 3, 2008
Posted at: 2008-08-04
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BLOG:
Note: The following blog entry is a quote:
http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/8912.htm
IRGC Commander: We’ve Tested New Advanced Missile
Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Ali Ja’fari has announced that the IRGC has tested new advanced weaponry that he says can “strike any enemy ship in a range of 300 km.”
Ja’far noted that the missile’s technology was new and developed by Iran.
Sources: IRNA, Fars, Iran, August 4, 2008
Posted at: 2008-08-04
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http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/pdf/itic_e0708.pdf
QUOTE:
03/08/2008
Monthly list of Information Bulletins issued by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
at the IICC, July 2008
During June 2008, the ITIC posted 68 Bulletins in six languages. An important Bulletin summing up the lull arrangement was issued this past month
PDF English
ADDING TO POST NO. 102:
August 4, 2008
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2008/August/08-nsd-687.html
Aafia Siddiqui Arrested for Attempting to Kill United States Officers in Afghanistan
NEW YORK- Michael J. Garcia, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Mark J. Mershon, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (”FBI”), and Raymond W. Kelly, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York, announced today the arrest of Aafia Siddiqui on charges related to her attempted murder and assault of United States officers and employees in Afghanistan. Siddiqui arrived in New York this evening and will be presented tomorrow before a United States Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. According to the Complaint filed in Manhattan federal court:
On July 17, 2008, officers of the Ghazni Province Afghanistan National Police (”ANP”) observed Siddiqui outside the Ghazni governor’s compound. ANP officers questioned Siddiqui, regarded her as suspicious, and searched her handbag. In it, they found numerous documents describing the creation of explosives, as well as excerpts from the Anarchist’s Arsenal. Siddiqui’s papers included descriptions of various landmarks in the United States, including in New York City. Siddiqui was also in possession of substances that were sealed in bottles and glass jars.
On July 18, 2008, a party of United States personnel, including two FBI special agents, a United States Army Warrant Officer, a United States Army Captain, and United States military interpreters, arrived at the Afghan facility where Siddiqui was being held. The personnel entered a second floor meeting room — unaware that Siddiqui was being held there, unsecured, behind a curtain.
The Warrant Officer took a seat and placed his United States Army M-4 rifle on the floor next to the curtain. Shortly after the meeting began, the Captain heard a woman yell from the curtain and, when he turned, saw Siddiqui holding the Warrant Officer’s rifle and pointing it directly at the Captain. Siddiqui said, “May the blood of [unintelligible] be directly on your [unintelligible, possibly head or hands].” The interpreter seated closest to Siddiqui lunged at her and pushed the rifle away as Siddiqui pulled the trigger. Siddiqui fired at least two shots but no one was hit. The Warrant Officer returned fire with a 9 mm service pistol and fired approximately two rounds at Siddiqui’s torso, hitting her at least once.
Despite being shot, Siddiqui struggled with the officers when they tried to subdue her; she struck and kicked them while shouting in English that she wanted to kill Americans. After being subdued, Siddiqui temporarily lost consciousness. The agents and officers then rendered medical aid to Siddiqui.
Siddiqui, a 36-year-old Pakistani woman who previously resided in the United States, is charged in a criminal Complaint filed in the Southern District of New York with one count of attempting to kill United States officers and employees and one count of assaulting United States officers and employees. If convicted, Siddiqui faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on each charge.
Mr. Garcia praised the investigative work of the Joint Terrorism Task Force (”JTTF”), the Federal Bureau of Investigation and New York City Police Department. He also expressed his gratitude to the Office of International Affairs of the Criminal Division of the United States Department of Justice and the United States Department of State for their assistance in the case. Mr. Garcia also thanked the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts for their assistance.
Mr. Garcia said that the investigation is continuing.
Assistant United States Attorney Christopher L. Lavigne is in charge of the prosecution.
The charges and allegations contained in the Complaint are merely accusations and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
Criminal Complaint
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Here is the criminal complaint:
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2008/August/siddiqui-aafia-complaint.pdf
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Note: The following text is a quote:
August 4, 2008
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2008/August/08-nsd-684.html
Senior Member of FARC Terrorist Organization Indicted for His Role in Hostage-Taking of Three Americans Recently Rescued in Colombia
WASHINGTON - Hely Mejia Mendoza, known better by his alias “Martin Sombra,” was indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., on Friday on seven counts of terrorism and weapons charges arising out of his participation in the hostage-taking of three American citizens, Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Thomas Howes, in the Republic of Colombia, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Patrick Rowan and District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor announced today. The three former hostages had been held in the Colombian jungle by the members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for over five years, until they were rescued last month by Colombian military forces.
The Indictment charges Sombra, 55, with one count of Conspiracy to Commit Hostage Taking, three counts of Hostage Taking, one count of Using and Carrying a Firearm During a Crime of Violence, and two counts of Providing Material Support to Terrorists and a Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. If convicted of these charges, Sombra would face a maximum term of up to 60 years of incarceration, which is the maximum sentence permitted under Colombian law for Colombian nationals extradited to the United States for prosecution.
Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Thomas Howes were conducting counter-drug aerial surveillance in southern Colombia on February 13, 2003, when their Cessna aircraft experienced engine failure and was forced to make an emergency landing on a remote mountainside. Two of the five occupants of the plane were captured and immediately executed by FARC guerrillas. The other three, Mr. Gonsalves, Mr. Stansell, and Mr. Howes, were held under barbaric conditions in the jungle for over five years.
The Indictment alleges that Martin Sombra served as “jailer” of the American hostages for most of their first two years of captivity. He designed and supervised the construction of a large barbed-wire concentration camp in which he held the Americans and dozens of other hostages in the jungle. The Indictment charges that Sombra used chains and wires to bind the necks and wrists of the American hostages to prevent their escape, and forced the hostages on a grueling 40 day “death march” with heavy backpacks through dense jungle to outrun Colombian military forces. Sombra ordered his confederates to kill the Americans and the other hostages rather than allow them to be rescued by the Colombian police or military. The Indictment also alleges that Sombra was involved in filming a proof of life video of the three Americans on July 25, 2003, in which the FARC announced that the Americans would be held hostage until the FARC’s various political demands were met.
Sombra was one of the 43 men who originally founded the FARC in 1964, and allegedly served on the “Estado Mayor Central,” or central general staff, of the terror group at a time when the organization’s ranks grew to over 16,000 armed guerrillas. Sombra was arrested by the Colombian National Police in the outskirts of the capital city of Bogota on February 28, 2008. He is the most senior member of the FARC ever captured during the 44-year-old conflict in Colombia.
The U.S. Department of Justice also announced today the unsealing of an Indictment previously returned against six other FARC senior commanders involved in the hostage taking of Marc Gonsalves, Keith Stansell and Thomas Howes. Two of the six defendants named in the unsealed Indictment are now believed to be deceased, including FARC Secretariat member Luis Edgar Devia Silva, better known as “Raul Reyes,” and the FARC’s former “Supreme Leader” Manuel Marulanda Velez. The other four defendants named in the newly unsealed Indictment remain at large. They include the commanders of the FARC’s Teofilo Forero Mobile Column and others FARC members directly involved in the abduction of the three American hostages on February 13, 2003: (1) Carlos Alberto Garcia, aka “Hermides Buitrago,” aka “El Paisa,” aka “Oscar Montero;” (2) Yurley Capera Quezada, aka “La Pilosa;” and (3) Pedro Gonzalez Perdomo, aka “Alfredo Arenas,” aka “Commandante Alfredo.”
The newly unsealed Indictment also names the FARC’s overall “military” commander, Jorge Briceno Suarez, aka “Mono Jojoy” for his role in the hostage taking of the three Americans. A proof of life video of the three Americans released by the FARC in 2003 shows defendant Mono Jojoy telling the Americans that they are “prisoners . . . in the power of the FARC,” and that the governments of the United States and Colombia have “abandoned and forgotten you.”
The United States government, through the Rewards for Justice Program of the Department of State, is offering a reward of up to five million dollars for information leading to the apprehension or conviction of any FARC commanders involved in the hostage taking of Keith Stansell, Thomas Howes, and Marc Gonsalves, and the murder of Thomas Janis, including the four fugitives named in the Indictment unsealed today.
The Department of State’s Rewards for Justice Program has been employed worldwide to fight terrorism. Since the program’s inception in 1984, the United States has paid more than $77 million to more than 50 persons who provided credible information that led to the apprehension of individuals or prevented acts of international terrorism.
Both indictments announced today were the result of an investigation led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Miami Field Office and are being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Kohl of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Columbia, with the support of the Counterterrorism Section of the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
An indictment is merely a formal charge that a defendant has committed a violation of criminal laws. Every defendant is presumed innocent until and unless found guilty.
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BLOG:
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/08/farc_commanders_indicted_over.php
“FARC Commanders Indicted Over Kidnappings of Americans”
By Andrew Cochran
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50691
“Officials Continue Developing Iraq’s Intelligence Capabilities”
By Tim Kilbride
Special to American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2008
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50685
Coalition, Iraqi Forces Detain 11, Find Weapons
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2008 – Coalition and Iraqi forces detained 11 suspected terrorists and found weapons caches during recent operations in Iraq, military officials said.
In Mosul today, coalition forces detained a man believed to be an al-Qaida leader who resurfaced after being released from prison in March. Another suspected terrorist also was captured during the operation, officials said.
In operations yesterday, six suspected terrorists were captured by coalition forces near Kirkuk. Two of the suspects reportedly are part of an al-Qaida suicide-car-bombing operation and a foreign-terrorist-facilitation network, officials said.
In operations Aug. 2, Iraqi special operations soldiers detained four suspected terrorists in Mosul. The suspects reportedly are associated with an al-Qaida intimidation cell that uses ransoms from kidnappings to fund terrorist operations. The individuals also are believed to be involved in assassination attempts and oil smuggling, officials said.
In Baghdad on Aug. 2, Iraqi and coalition forces found weapons caches during three separate operations. They discovered 41 rocket-propelled grenades, 12 artillery rounds, four guided missiles, three mortar rounds, 2 pounds of explosives, and various small-arms ammunition, officials said.
(Compiled from Multinational Force Iraq and Multinational Corps Iraq news releases.)
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=50686
Coalition, Afghan Forces Kill Enemy Fighters, Detain Six Suspects
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 2008 – Coalition and Afghan forces killed enemy fighters, detained six suspects and found weapons during recent operations in Afghanistan, military officials said.
In operations yesterday, coalition forces were searching areas in Ghazni province’s Waghez district when they came under attack by small-arms and mortar fire. Coalition forces repelled the attack, killing an unspecified number of enemy fighters, officials said.
Afghan and coalition forces detained four suspected terrorists and discovered bomb-making materials in Khowst province. The individuals reportedly are linked to a bomb-facilitation network responsible for numerous attacks in the province’s Sabari district, officials said.
In operations Aug. 2, coalition forces killed one enemy fighter and detained two more in Ghazni province. The individuals reportedly are responsible for bombings and mortar attacks against Afghan and coalition troops, officials said.
(Compiled from Combined Joint Task Force 101 news releases.)
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/08/20080804-2.html
For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
August 4, 2008
President Bush Signs S. 3370 Into Law
White House News
On Monday, August 4, 2008, the President signed into law:
S. 3370, the “Libyan Claims Resolution Act,” which facilitates the resolution of pending claims against Libya by United States nationals.
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UPDATE:
Thanks to a special emailer for pointing to this article:
http://www.elmundo.es/suplementos/cronica/2008/668/1217714406.html
“OPERACIÓN | COOPERANTE BAJO SOSPECHA
Remedios en la selva de las FARC”
SNIPPET: “Acusada de ser recaudadora del grupo terrorista en Europa, fotografiada en un campamento en 2003, quién es realmente esta abulense de 58 años. El guerrillero Reyes la llamaba «apreciada camarada».”
SALUD HDEZ. MORA SILVIA R. TABERNE. Bogotá / Madrid
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/135.pdf
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/article/737
“Forgotten Investigation, Emails Offer Insight into IIIT Probe”
IPT News
August 3, 2008
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “A Northern Virginia think-tank is suspected of being a pivotal cog in the Muslim Brotherhood’s high command in America, newly released federal law enforcement records indicate.”
QUOTE:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1656223/posts?page=45#45
http://www.truthusa.com/NewsInternetGuerin.html
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UPDATE:
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/213237.html
(GUARDIAN UNLIMITED)
“Gilligan Gets 24hr Protection Over Gang Death Threat Fears”
“Former leader of Ireland’s biggest drugs gang is in danger after causing security clampdown in jail”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “John Gilligan, the Dublin criminal, one of whose gang murdered Veronica Guerin, is receiving 24-hour protection inside Ireland’s top-security Portlaoise prison, to safeguard him from other prisoners.
Gilligan, who was acquitted of Guerin’s murder, has been put in temporary segregation from other inmates over fears he could be murdered in jail, The Observer has learnt. The former leader of Ireland’s biggest drugs gang has been accused of causing a security clampdown on contraband after he was caught this week with a mobile phone, two sim cards and a syringe for injecting himself with muscle-building steroids.
They are also angry that his recent interview in Irish pop magazine Hot Press via a mobile phone and the discovery of another phone in his cell contributed to the clampdown, security sources said.”
45 posted on August 5, 2008 2:02:30 AM PDT by Cindy
Fyi Only.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056685/posts
“Strong 6.0 magnitude quake hits Central China”
Reuters (excerpt) ^ | August 5, 2008
Posted on August 5, 2008 3:19:34 AM PDT by HAL9000
Note: To read the complete report; please click on the link below.
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ICC-CCS.ORG - THE WEEKLY PIRACY REPORT - REPORT SNIPPET - QUOTE:
http://www.icc-ccs.org/prc/piracyreport.php
Weekly Piracy Report
29 July-4 August 2008
The following is a summary of the daily reports broadcast by the IMB’s Piracy Reporting Centre to ships in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions on the SafetyNET service of Inmarsat-C from 29 July to 4 August 2008.
ALERT
Chittagong anchorage, Bangladesh
The number of attacks has reduced since 2006. However, the area is still listed as a high risk area and mariners are advised to be cautious especially while approaching the anchorage and while at anchor at Chittagong
Nigeria
Violent attacks carried out by pirates on board vessels at anchor and vessel carrying out STS operations. Mariners are advised to exercise extreme caution in these waters.
Suspicious crafts
None reported
Recently reported incidents
31.07.2008: 2015 LT: 10:16.36N - 107:02.85E, Vung Tau Anchorage, Vietnam.
Robbers boarded a chemical tanker at anchor. D/O raised alarm and crew rushed to forecastle. Upon seeing crew alertness, the robbers jumped overboard and escaped with ship’s stores in a small boat.
25.07.2008: 2130 LT: Go Dau, Vietnam.
Two robbers armed with long knives boarded a bulk carrier. They broke open the padlocks to the forward store. Duty crew noticed the open stores and raised the alarm. Hearing the alarm, the robbers escaped in a waiting boat. Authorities and local agents informed.
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http://www.stavangeravisen.com/art.asp?id=43200
http://www.stavangeravisen.com/images/archive/p200808051058-91587.jpg
http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article2574924.ece
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http://www.arabtimesonline.com/client/pagesdetails.asp?nid=20558&ccid=18
“Muslim leader takes Norway to European rights court: lawyer”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “OSLO, Aug 5, 2008 (AFP) - Mullah Krekar, founder of radical Islamist group Ansar al-Islam, has filed charges with Europe’s human rights court against Norway, where he lives, for ‘inhuman treatment,’ his lawyer said Tuesday.
‘We lodged a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in April,’ Brynjar Meling told AFP, confirming a report in the Verdens Gang daily. ‘The complaint is currently being handled,’ he added.
Krekar has lived in Norway as a refugee since 1991, but has been under threat of deportation since Norwegian media revealed he was the founder of Ansar al-Islam, which figures on the United States’ list of terrorist groups.
Norway’s Supreme Court on November 8 upheld previous court rulings and a 2003 decision by Norwegian authorities to expel Krekar from the Scandinavian country, claiming he was a threat to national security.
Norwegian law however prevents Krekar, whose real name is Fateh Najmeddin Faraj, from being deported to his homeland until the situation in Iraq improves.
The Iraqi Kurd, who himself figures on a United Nations list of terrorist groups or individuals, admits that he founded the group but insists he has not headed it since May 2002.”
BLOG:
http://interested-participant.blogspot.com/2008/08/animal-rights-extremists-firebomb.html
Monday, August 04, 2008
Following Entry Posted 8/04/2008 08:27:00 PM
“Animal Rights Extremists Firebomb Researcher’s Home”
SNIPPET: “(Santa Cruz, California) Apparently following up on a threat reported on 7/31/08, animal right terrorists firebombed the home of a University of California-Santa Cruz molecular biologist this weekend.
Just before 6 a.m. Saturday, molecular biologist David Feldheim’s home was firebombed, forcing him, his wife and their two young children to flee down a fire escape.
About the same time, a car belonging to a different, unidentified researcher was destroyed by another firebomb.”
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Previously...
http://interested-participant.blogspot.com/2008/07/animal-activists-threaten-researchers.html
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Following Entry Posted 7/31/2008 12:51:00 AM
“Animal Activists Threaten Researchers”
ON THE INTERNET:
www.animalliberationfront.com
www.animalliberationpressoffice.org/
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