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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Afghanistan
Security Forces Kill 55 Insurgents in Operations
[Tolo News] The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Wednesday in a statement said that in different operations around the country, the Afghan cops killed 55 turbans and maimed 36 more.

According to the Ministry, the operations took place in Kandahar, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Pashtun-infested Logar, Ghazni, Wardak, Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, Ghor and Urozgan provinces.

In addition to the inflicted casualties, large quantities of explosives were discovered and seized from the hard boys.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened...
the National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Tuesday said over the past two months the Afghan intelligence forces have thwarted over 470 terrorist attack plots across the country.

According to NDS spokesperson Abdul Hasseb Sediqi, the attacks were planned in large measure in an attempt to derail the presidential election process, and involved Pak terrorist organizations.

"At least 64 operations were carried out across the country during the past 12 days and prevented the efforts of six terrorist organizations, including the Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba
...the Army of the Pure, an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
and the Haqqani Network," Sediqi said.

The announcement comes after Rahmatullah Nabil, the NDS' top official, said in a presser in Kabul on Saturday night that 473 terrorist attack plots had been planned but failed to materialize on Election Day.
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Another US drone attack strikes Afghanistan, kills 12
[Iran Press TV] Another US drone attack has struck Afghanistan's southeastern Ghazni Province, killing at least 12 people.

The deadly drone strike was carried out in Qara-Bagh district of the troubled province on Wednesday, according to local authorities.

Provincial officials further stated that the attack targeted Talibs, including a number of commanders.

Earlier on Wednesday, two separate US drone strikes were carried out in neighboring Pakistain, killing at least five people in the country's northwest tribal region of Wazoo.

According to Pak authorities, six missiles struck three compounds in Dargah Mandi Village, nearly 10 kilometers (six miles) west of Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a ministate in centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
, where Pak forces conducted aerial strikes earlier in the week as well.
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1  Three cheers for our doughty* drone operators!

* I'm not exactly sure what doughty means, but if it's good enough for the Brits, it's good enough for me.
Posted by: trailing wife on the greyhound bus || 06/19/2014 8:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Doughty = "Brave and Persistent"
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 06/19/2014 8:46 Comments || Top||

#3  :-)
Posted by: trailing wife on the greyhound bus || 06/19/2014 10:55 Comments || Top||

#4  You're leaving us?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 06/19/2014 11:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Chinatown Bus is the way to go, not the dawg.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/19/2014 11:54 Comments || Top||

#6  "Doughty" brings to mind the Pillsbury dough boy. Or maybe the Michelin tire guy or the Sta-Puft Marshmallow man in Ghostbusters.
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2014 11:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Drew Doughty's a fine defenceman for the LA Kings. Reminds me a lot a Bobby Orr.
Posted by: Snusort Spomose2148 || 06/19/2014 14:03 Comments || Top||

#8  My version of running away, Snowy Thing. ;-) No, my mother is moving into a retirement community near us, and wants to bring her car from Buffalo. So I took the bus up today, and we'll drive back tomorrow. My very independent, 88 year old mother thought nothing of driving the 500 miles on her own, "By easy stages," she said, "taking plenty of breaks." Nonetheless, in addition to her age, she has a tradition of mini-strokes, and the thought of that happening on the road is terrifying. Officially I'm just keeping her company, but unofficially we'll take turns doing the driving, and I'll definitely do the tricky bits around Cleveland and heading into Cincinnati. Besides, I'm accustomed to the GPS, while she's a technophobe and afraid of her cell phone.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/19/2014 21:47 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan assures Pakistan of full support in NWA operation
ISLAMABAD: A top Afghan envoy is said to have assured Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif "full cooperation" from the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) in ensuring effective border surveillance in the backdrop of the Pakistan Army's ongoing military operation against the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in North Waziristan Agency.

In a rare visit to the General Headquarters (GHQ), Afghan Ambassador to Pakistan Janan Mosazai met COAS General Raheel Sharif on Wednesday to discuss the relevant Pak-Afghan border issues involving Zarb-e-Azb operation. "The ongoing operation in North Waziristan Agency and matters of mutual interest, including measures to improve security along Pakistan - Afghanistan border, were discussed," a brief statement from Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.
Is ISPR a wholly owned subsidiary of the ISI?
Reportedly, the Afghan diplomat was informed that while there were adequate assurances from the NATO-led ISAF to assist Pakistan Army by means of taking on the TTP sanctuaries on the other side of the border, such kind of support and cooperation on part of the Afghan authorities, the officials believed, was lacking. Mosazai, the sources claimed, was also told that Pakistan Army had formally requested the Afghan authorities to cooperate for foolproof surveillance at Pak-Afghan border to block the way of runaway militants and to take on TTP sanctuaries in Khost, Nuristan and Kunar provinces.

In response, the Afghan envoy is said to have assured on part of the Afghan government that Kabul would extend "every possible assistance" to Pakistan to defeat the TTP militants in the ongoing offensive. Afghan Embassy spokesman Shams Zardasht, when called, was not available to comment on the issue.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Afghan President Hamid "maybe I am the Taliban"
Karzai in an interview with the BBC said that the Al Qaeda had no presence in Afghanistan. He said that he was in regular dialogue with the Taliban. "They are in contact with me every day," he said. "There is even an exchange of letters, meetings, and desire for peace," he said.
Your neighbors might disagree.
Posted by: Squinty || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Horn
Shaboobs kill 10 in Mpeketoni
Fresh tension has erupted in Mpeketoni after ten more bodies were recovered Tuesday morning at Poromokoni village in Lamu county. Al shabaab has claimed responsibility for the fresh killings putting the death toll at 20, hours after government sent in troops to secure the area.

"We carried out another attack last night. We killed 20 people, mainly police and Kenyan wildlife wardens. The commandos have been going to several places looking for military personnel," Shabaab's military spokesman, Abdulaziz Abu Musab, told AFP by telephone.

There are also reports that several houses were burnt down in Mapenya village not very far from Mpeketoni town by the gang.

It is still not clear whether the bodies are fresh or are the ones which were not recovered after the deadly attack by gunmen in Mpeketoni on Sunday in which 56 people lost their lives.

Reports from the ground indicate that a team of security personnel have been dispatched to the village to assess the situation. Kenya Red Thingy Cross officials said they have also dispatched a team to establish whether there has been more violence. Hassan Musa Kenya Red Thingy Cross Society coordinator said he had received a call from Mapenya about burnt houses in the village but was yet to get the exact numbers.

The area affected is said to be near the site where the suspected gunmen burnt down the Nissan matatus they had travelled in before the bloody executions.

The terror group, al Shabaab yesterday said the attack in Mpeketoni was revenge for Kenya's "brutal oppression of Muslims in Kenya through coercion, intimidation and extrajudicial killings of Muslim scholars".

Two suspects arrested

Police have arrested two suspects in connection with Sunday's attack and a subsequent raid on Monday in Mpeketoni, Lamu County, that left more than 60 people dead.

One suspect, Ahmed Abdallah, is alleged to be the owner of a vehicle said to have been used by the gunmen to perpetrate the attacks. Mr Abdallah is also claimed to be linked to Plot 270 land in Mpeketoni where some of the squatters living on it were killed and was Wednesday morning recording a statement with police.

The second suspect, Salim Dyana, claimed to have been hired as a driver in one of the vehicles used in the attacks for Sh20,000, police said.

The arrests came as Inspector General David Kimaiyo appointed a new District Administration Police commander Mr John Njenga Miiri, who has already taken charge of the situation.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Man arrested in Marka after bomb attack
News reports from Marka town in the Lower Shabelle region indicate that a man was arrested after being suspected he was responsible for an explosion in the town recently.

This explosion that occurred was caused by an IED bomb in Marka targeted at police officers of the Somali Police Force.

Witnesses told Shabelle that the bomb was thrown in the Awbaae neighborhood of Marka town.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Africa North
AQIM kidnapper escapes Mali prison
[MAGHAREBIA] The leader of a Bamako prison break was involved in kidnappings claimed by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), AFP quoted Malian sources as saying on Tuesday (June 17th).

A guard and a prisoner were killed when a dozen prisoners escaped on Monday. The inmates included Mohamed Ali Ag Wassouden, who participated in the abduction of two French nationals from a hotel in 2011.

Philippe Verdon was executed by AQIM last year. Serge Lazarevic is the sole French hostage still being held by terrorists.
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Africa Subsaharan
Boko Haram suspected after football screening venue bombed in Nigeria
[ZEENEWS.INDIA] Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
turbans were on Wednesday suspected of carrying out a deadly kaboom against football fans watching the World Cup in northern Nigeria, in the latest violence targeting the game.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast in the Nayi-Nama area of Damaturu on Tuesday night but the Islamists have previously carried out attacks on informal, big screen venues.

Boko Haram, which in April kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
to international condemnation, has been waging a brutal, five-year insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives.

Residents in Nayi-Nama said the bomb appeared to have been hidden in a motorised rickshaw outside the Crossfire venue, where crowds had gathered to watch tournament hosts Brazil play Mexico.

The blast happened at about 8:15 pm (1915 GMT), 15 minutes after the match kicked off in Fortaleza, tearing corrugated roofs from nearby buildings and throwing masonry across a wide area, television pictures showed.

"We received 21 dead bodies and 27 injured victims from the blast," a source at the Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital in Damaturu, told AFP. Soldiers and police brought in the dead and injured from the scene of the blast, which was quickly cordoned off, the source said.

"The victims are young men and children. They have burns, ruptured tissue and bone fractures," he added.

Yobe state police commissioner Sanusi Rufa'i said at least 14 people were killed and 26 injured.

Conflicting corpse counts are common in Nigeria and the authorities often round down the number of victims.

"Our forensic experts are conducting on-the-scene assessment to establish what really happened. We will make public our findings when investigations are concluded," he added.

At the hospital, television pictures showed packed wards of men lying on blood-stained mattresses with bandages on their hands and legs.

One told Nigeria's Channels station that he was passing by the centre when the bomb went off: "I couldn't tell what happened because everybody was struggling to survive," he said. The head of football's world governing body FIFA, Sepp Blatter, wrote on Twitter: "Terrible to read of fatalities & injuries in Nigeria, where fans were watching the #WorldCup. Football should unite people, not divide them."
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram

#1  Happiness, contentment and basic enjoyment of life are not Islamic.
Posted by: Snusort Spomose2148 || 06/19/2014 14:06 Comments || Top||

#2  But drinking camel piss is. Google: The saheeh hadeeth about drinking camel’s urine. May Allaah reward you.

Posted by: mossomo || 06/19/2014 18:49 Comments || Top||


14 dead in bombing of World Cup view site in Nigeria
Hours after a suicide bomber detonated explosives packed into a tricycle taxi at an outdoor World Cup viewing site in northeast Nigeria, police said the death toll was 14 with 26 people wounded.
A tricycle of violence?
Witnesses said the tricycle taxi was driven into the outdoor area in Damaturu, capital of Yobe state, soon after the Brazil-Mexico match started on Tuesday night.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility but Boko Haram, an armed group that wants to turn Nigeria into an Islamic state, was suspected.
Correctly so...
Police Assistant Superintendent Nathan Cheghan said on Wednesday that 14 people were killed and 26 were wounded in the attack. He said rescue workers had been careful about rushing to the scene for fear of secondary explosions. Boko Haram group frequently detonates secondary explosions to kill those who help victims from the first bomb.

Security experts have warned that militants might attack crowds watching the World Cup in public places in Nigeria, Kenya and Uganda, as they did in 2010 in Uganda. Nigeria's military has promised increased security but appears incapable of halting a stream of attacks by extremists holding more than 250 schoolgirls hostage.

The kidnapping of the girls two months ago and failure of Nigeria's military and government to rescue them has roused international concern. The United States is searching for the girls with drones and has sent experts along with Britain and France to help in counter-terrorism tactics and hostage negotiation.

Boko Haram's leader Abubakar Shekau has threatened to sell the girls into slavery unless the government agrees to exchange them for detained extremists, but President Goodluck Jonathan has said he will not exchange prisoners. Nigeria's military has said it knows where the girls are but that any military campaign could get them killed.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Boko Haram


Arabia
US has assets in Iraq region as B.O. considers action
WASHINGTON (AP) - As President Obama considers his golf swingweighs options for potential U.S. intervention in Iraq, due to a deteriorating security situation, the Pentagon retains a broad range of ground, air and sea troops and assets in the region. They include:

-Six warships in the Persian Gulf, including the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush
I wonder if B.O. gets annoyed every time he is briefed on available forces?
, a cruiser, three destroyers and the amphibious transport ship the USS Mesa Verde, which is carrying about 550 Marines and five V-22 Osprey hybrid aircraft.

-About 5,000 U.S. soldiers across the border in Kuwait, as part of a routine rotational presence. They include the 2nd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, a combat aviation brigade and other support troops.

-Air Force aircraft capable of a full range of missions positioned within range of Iraq. According to Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James they include F-15E, F-16 and F-22 fighters; B-1 bombers, C-130 cargo planes and A-10 attack jets.
Posted by: Squinty || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  As like Benghazi, any of which could've been used by now, iff only in limited or selective strikes.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/19/2014 2:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Right Joe. Demonstration flights of 'fast movers' over Benghazi... No Can Do. Too far, not enough time, no permission slip.

Now suddenly, [thanks to dozens of talking heads on teevee] the regime adopts demonstration flights of fast movers over Iraq.

Price of the regime's 'On the Job Training".... 4 dead Americans.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/19/2014 4:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Price of the regime's 'On the Job Training".... 4 dead Americans,
and thousands at risk around the world!
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2014 9:49 Comments || Top||

#4  How long does it take for the B-52s to get to Iraq from Diego Garcia? A few arclights ought to help the situation.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/19/2014 11:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Noon at last!
Posted by: Shipman || 06/19/2014 12:01 Comments || Top||


Europe
Spain Holds 10 For Suspected Jihadist Recruitment
[Ynet] Spanish police are holding 10 people including a former Guantanamo Bay detainee for allegedly recruiting jihadi Death Eaters to fight abroad, mainly in Iraq and Syria.

The National Court said Tuesday they would appear before a judge soon.
Hmm. It was only eight, the other day...
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Europe


Home Front: WoT
Two in Texas charged with providing support to terrorists
Two men in Texas were arrested and charged with providing support to terrorists, including those in Syria, the U.S. Attorney's Office said on Wednesday.

Rahatul Ashikim Khan and Michael Todd Wolfe were arrested near Austin on Tuesday by authorities with the Central Texas Joint Terrorism Task Force. Khan was arrested at his house, while Wolfe was about to board a flight to Europe.

In a federal criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday, Khan was charged with providing material support to terrorists. From early 2011 through Jan. 2012, "he conspired with others to recruit persons to travel overseas to support terrorist activities including committing violent jihad," according to the Justice Department

Wolfe was charged with the same crime after planning to travel to the Middle East "to provide his services to radical groups engaged in armed conflict in Syria."

Both remain in federal custody, and have been scheduled to attend a detention hearing on Friday in Austin.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Two men messed with Texas? Uh-oh.
Posted by: Squinty || 06/19/2014 0:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Jihadis rise and then deride
Deep in the heart of Texas
Posted by: AnyoneCanBlog || 06/19/2014 1:12 Comments || Top||

#3  That's a paddlin'.

Posted by: DarthVader || 06/19/2014 1:35 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
MNA Tahira Asif's condition out of danger: Rasheed Godil
[The News (Pak)] Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Rasheed Godil Wednesday, quoting doctors, said the condition of his party's member of National Assembly Tahira Asif is now out of danger.

Earlier, MNA Tahira Asif was shot and injured by unidentified armed men near Gujranwala upon resisting a robbery. She received two bullets in her abdomen and was rushed to Sheikh Zayed hospital Lahore.

Rasheed Godil said she had gone through a successful surgery and that she would be transferred to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) in the next half an hour. "According to doctors, she is now out of danger," he added.

Taking notice of the attack on the MQM MNA, Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif sought a report from IG Police.

Later, lawmakers belonging to MQM and other opposition parties staged a walkout from the National Assembly to register their protest against the attack on Tahira Asif.

MQM MNA Asif Husnain said the armed attack on Tahira Asif's car is being purposely misrepresented as a robbery.
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Iraq
Petraeus issues warning on Iraq: U.S. can not be 'the air force for Shia militias'
[Washington Times] The architect of the counter insurgency strategy that helped stabilize Iraq before President Obama took office has a message for the president and his advisers: Do not let the U.S. become the de facto air force for Shia militias.
No, the message is not for POTUS or the shadow gov't.
"This cannot be the United States being the air force for Shia militias, or a Shia on Sunni Arab fight," said David Petraeus on Wednesday while at the Margaret Thatcher Conference on Liberty in London, the Daily Beast reported.

The former commander of coalition forces in Iraq and former CIA director continued: "It has to be a fight of all of Iraq against extremists, who happen to be Sunni Arabs, but extremists that are wreaking havoc on a country."

Mr. Petraeus went on to say that if the U.S. acts, it should be done when Iraq's Shia-led government in Baghdad makes it clear that it desires to become more representative of its people.
Urgent note to Israel. Your attention is directed to the preceding para.
"The surge in Iraq, the surge that mattered most was not the surge in forces it was the surge of ideas that changed our strategy," Mr. Petraeus said, the Daily Beast reported. "You cannot have 18 to 20 percent of the population feeling disenfranchised -- feeling that it has no stake in the success of the country. In fact it has a stake in the failure of Iraq. Of course we reached out to the Sunni Arabs."

The former general went on to say that when U.S. troops left in Iraq in 2011, the country was uniquely poised to heal 1400 years of sectarian divides, but that in many ways the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki squandered gains made by American troops.
Blaming Maliki is the party narrative. It's always a 'blame game' with these people, never a solutions or winning game.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/19/2014 06:59 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But, but, but.....
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/19/2014 8:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Maliki does deserve a lot of the blame.

But Islamic sectarianism is older and deeper than Malaki. Furthermore, there are the problems of Islam itself - the triumphalism, the doctrines of oppression, the misogyny, the hostility to freedom of any kind, the celebration of violence,...
Posted by: lord garth || 06/19/2014 8:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes, I agree, he's probably a SOB. But he's THEIR SOB. The Champ regime appears to be doing the RIGHT thing for the wrong reasons. Hopefully they won't change their minds.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/19/2014 8:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Is the good general angling for a spot on the democrat 2016 presidential ticket? Hillary/Petraeus in 2016?
Posted by: Herb Bumble4862 || 06/19/2014 9:38 Comments || Top||

#5  The "good general" is "All In" for the Champ, and for good reason. That DoJ investigation into his activities with his biographer is still hanging out there somewhere.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/19/2014 9:42 Comments || Top||

#6  It's something we should have thought about before being the DI's for what became ISIS.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 06/19/2014 11:41 Comments || Top||

#7  Obviously the empty suit's thugs squeezed Petraeus's nuts to get him to say that. Very interesting how he was publically flogged by the Dems over the surge and now is defending NOT doing anything.

Of course, I am coming around. I spent a lot of time in Iraq and thought in 2004 that it had a chance and I thought the elections and the growth of the Iraqi Army would stabilize things. AND I knew the Iranians were behind most of the violence in Iraq.

I also knew Bush's team in Iraq with the CPA screwed the pooch. We made the US Forces into an occupation force instead of a force for freedom with our crazy crap non-fraternization rules and how Brenner kept the US forces in the Green Zone (sort of a mental analogy to the Saddam regime with an occupation force using the tyrant's lair).

We had the war won, when Obama came in and started making his statements about pulling out, the bad guys knew all they had to do was bide their time and then they could act...fanatics have lots of patience.

Another foreign policy masterpiece by the Dems to go with Rwanda and Viet Nam.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 06/19/2014 11:56 Comments || Top||

#8  I forgot to add that "coming around" means I think that while we have a dog in the fight, i.e., regional security being in our best interests, putting two groups of fanatics that hate each other in the same room with lots of bullets does have its points.

All that I ask of our "policy makers" is that they figure out a way to get whoever is left standing and in power to be our guy.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 06/19/2014 11:59 Comments || Top||

#9  Ideally, if things collapse, certain persons would have the wherewithal to make sure that the people we do NOT want in charge conveniently end up moved out of the way (or at room temperature). Its easiest to prevent a Maliki or Ayatollah than it is to deal with them.
Posted by: OldSpook || 06/19/2014 12:35 Comments || Top||

#10  Problem with Iraq is that Bush stupidly listened to the State Department in terms of running Iraq after we knocked off the government.
Posted by: OldSpook || 06/19/2014 12:36 Comments || Top||

#11  Dunno. I guess if we HAVE to pick a side, the Shia is the way to go. That being said, no matter who wins, we (by this, I mean the Republic of the United States of America) lose.
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 06/19/2014 12:37 Comments || Top||

#12  Stockpile of chemical weapons has been seized in Iraq by Al Qaeda, ISIS affiliate.
Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Ghibelline1627 || 06/19/2014 13:09 Comments || Top||

#13  Source?
Posted by: Pappy || 06/19/2014 14:03 Comments || Top||

#14  Jahn Karry: "You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq."

guess which idiot Oblahblah is sending to Iraq?
Posted by: Frank G || 06/19/2014 14:30 Comments || Top||

#15  Oblahblah

I'm stealing that one Frank.
Posted by: DarthVader || 06/19/2014 14:31 Comments || Top||

#16  Pappy: one link seems to be:

http://online.wsj.com/articles/sunni-extremists-in-iraq-occupy-saddams-chemical-weapons-facility-1403190600?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 06/19/2014 14:43 Comments || Top||

#17  Thanks.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/19/2014 15:15 Comments || Top||

#18  Pappy,
Weren't Syrian CBW supposed to have been destroyed?
Posted by: Squinty || 06/19/2014 15:20 Comments || Top||

#19  You can't destroy what never existed Squinty. No WMD in Iraq, ever, period.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/19/2014 16:01 Comments || Top||

#20  With Iraq, he was thinking about WMD. 500 tons of uranium shipped from Iraq, Pentagon says

But the CBW question pertained to Syria.
Posted by: Squinty || 06/19/2014 16:06 Comments || Top||

#21  Lies! All Lies!
Posted by: Shipman || 06/19/2014 17:09 Comments || Top||

#22  I say, if jiahadists are ignored, the cancer will only metastasize. Eventually we will be forced to deal with it.

Zarqawi's 2005 Manifesta:

The Americans will exit soon from Iraq and things may develop faster than we imagine.

[Iraq is] The place for the greatest battle of Islam in this era.

The conflicts in Chechnya, Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Bosnia, which he refers to as the "far-flung regions of the Islamic world" are secondary in al Qaeda's plans for the formation of the Islamist Caliphate. The real lever of power is in Iraq, Egypt and the Levant (Syria and Lebanon).

The first stage: Expel the Americans from Iraq.

The second stage: Establish an Islamic authority or amirate, then develop it and support it until it achieves the level of a caliphate

The third stage: Extend the jihad wave to the secular countries neighboring Iraq.

The fourth stage: The clash with Israel


It would be naive to think the Jiahad stops with Israel. Equally unwise would be allowing jiahadis to consolidate their holdings into a nation-state, that would further destabilize the whole region.

I want to touch on a point that I haven't heard much made of, the name recognition Abu Bakr has throughout the muslim world.

Islam had another Abu Bakr. A warrior too, very successful as well. He was a close companion of muhammad, was the first muslim convert, the first Caliph residing over the first Caliphate, and it was after his reign that islam splintered into the two factions of Sunni vs Shia. The man is well known in islamic lore.

Just as - Abu Bakr of ISIS is a growing legend. The more success he has, the more he will be lionized. Allowing him a nation state would elevate his status and would serve to swell his ranks. He would have mandate. You don't want young men synergizing the past with the present, getting swept up in sweet nostalgia of better times and the potential for her return.

Let me close my point. The difference between AQ and ISIS - Al Arabiya.com:

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is moving according to strategies and perspectives of a state lying amid violent hotbeds and safe havens. It creeps into structures of unsuccessful regimes while flourishing during their periods of turmoil.

This is why ISIS believes it is capable of leading global jihad, unlike Al-Qaeda which focuses on the distant enemy rather than the enemy that is near.


First the takfirs and apostates, then us. I would take them at their word.
Posted by: mossomo || 06/19/2014 17:28 Comments || Top||

#23  And why the f not Mr P.

We have been the Saudi's arm and shield for decades, and if they are not a Shia militia
then who is?

The key here is to provide sufficient support to avoid catastrophic collapse on the part of the Iraqi government. After that, just like the Syrians, they are on their own.

Maintain the balance of power, dear Rupert.
Posted by: rammer || 06/19/2014 19:32 Comments || Top||

#24  Rammer, Saudi are not Shia. They are Wahabbi/Salafist, which is Sunni based.
Posted by: OldSpook || 06/19/2014 20:13 Comments || Top||

#25  FSA: "If you think you are a man go fight Israel not us, why did you come to Syria"

ISIS: "You are apostate and fighting you (FSA) is a priority to us more than usual infidel"

ISIS: "You (Syrians) curse god and the prophet you are apostate infidel"

ISIS: "killing you apostates is a must and comes before killing Jews and Christians"
Posted by: mossomo || 06/19/2014 21:31 Comments || Top||

#26  FSA: "If you think you are a man go fight Israel not us, why did you come to Syria"

Real ISIS answer: We have to pick up more men, equipment, and money first.
Posted by: Squinty || 06/19/2014 21:54 Comments || Top||

#27  Interesting how uranium and chemical weapons shipped to Syria is converted to "Bush Lied People Died" Hmmm wasn't the big reason the left says Bush is a war criminal is because Iraq didn't have any WMD?

Geez, how far will the media go to bury important information to preserve a narrative?

Never mind, come to think of it, the answer to that question is hiding under his desk in the oval office.
Posted by: Bill Clinton || 06/19/2014 22:07 Comments || Top||

#28  Seems to me this latest excursion is just one more iteration of the war between the Sunnis and Shias that has been going on since about the 7th century.

(hint for non-mooslims: it's as if the Presbyterians and the Episcopalians decided to fight to the death over doctrinal differences)
Posted by: SteveS || 06/19/2014 22:09 Comments || Top||

#29  Now, now, iff the US-Soviets can work together to rescue "Ice Station Zebra" + Kosovo, why can't the USoAmerika work wid future OWG Globalist Co-Superpower Iran [etal?], the NAU wid the Eurasian Customs Union [etal?], on ISIS-threatened Iraq???

To paraph Krauthammer = "SAY IT WID ME, AMERIKA -D *** NG IT, YES WE CAN"!

lol.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/19/2014 22:35 Comments || Top||

#30  yep, I got it wrong oldspook.

shia/sunni, doesnt matter though. my point was

we have been working for the saudis forever, and now the saudi pawns, isis, are a pain in the ass, for everyone, and the saudis.

so our islamic brothers (shia/sunni) just are asking for a solid, and ask that we blow up these dirty dog crazies they have bought.

but i argue that instead we need to instead simply balance the power and let them fight each other.

to exhaustion. which according to history is about 30% of the male population. so we have a long way to go yet.
Posted by: rammer || 06/19/2014 23:15 Comments || Top||

#31  Also from GEN PETRAEUS ... ...

* DRUDGEREPORT > PETRAEUS: US MUST STRIKE IRAQ [ISIL/ISIL] TO SAVE THE WEST. | [Telegraph.UK] " US SHOULD LAUNCH TARGETED MILITARY STRIKES ON "TERRORIST ARMY" ISIS, WARNS GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS.

Iff it means the security of the West is endangered or is threatened.

Which could be soon enuff given ...

* DEFENCE.PK/FOURMS > ISIL [aka ISIS]: "WE WILL [also] CONQUER INSTANBUL", i.e. Turkey.

Alleged info garnered or derived from analysis of alleged captured ISIS/ISIL documents in Turkey yesterday.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Guardian.UK] IRAQI AMBASSADOR [Iraq US Amb. Lukman Faily] FEARS "ETHNIC CLEANSING" IN IRAQ UNLESS OBAMA ACTS.

* SAME > [HuffPo] ISIS MAY SKIP BAGHDAD + INSTEAD BUILD A NEW STATE - "SYRIAQ".
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/19/2014 23:24 Comments || Top||

#32  That was a Magnificent write up mossomo
Posted by: newc || 06/19/2014 23:54 Comments || Top||


Iraq sending 59 officers to court for abandoning Mosul
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said in a statement on Wednesday that 59 officers will be brought before court for fleeing their posts last week as Sunni insurgents seized Mosul, northern Iraq's biggest city.

Maliki's military spokesman, Lieutenant General Qassim Atta, read the names of the officers on state television. The announcement came a day after Maliki dismissed four top generals and said they were being charged in military court for abandoning Mosul last Tuesday as the city fell.
Posted by: Squinty || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq Battles ISIL for Control of Baiji Refinery
[ONLINE.WSJ]
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant

#1  More recent:
[WSJ] Updated June 19, 2014 2:42 p.m. ET
Workers at Iraq's largest oil refinery said Thursday that rebels had taken over most of the embattled facility, in what has become a decisive test of Baghdad's ability to protect a pillar of the country's economy from a Sunni Muslim insurgency.
Posted by: Squinty || 06/19/2014 15:52 Comments || Top||

#2  "and they're refusing to continue the Summer Blend, their cry is to hell with your Crusader Vapor Pressure, Death to Ethanol!"
Posted by: Shipman || 06/19/2014 16:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Death to Ethanol! :-)

Iraqis, I am sure, would rather have the corn.
Posted by: Squinty || 06/19/2014 16:08 Comments || Top||

#4  An oil refinery sounds like a very exciting place for a fire fight.

As for ethanol, it is a commie plot to sap and impurify our precious transportation fluids. POG
Posted by: SteveS || 06/19/2014 16:34 Comments || Top||

#5  heh SteveS and lol.
Posted by: Shipman || 06/19/2014 17:11 Comments || Top||


Iraq requests US air strikes on militants
[The News (Pak)] Iraq has asked the United States to conduct air strikes against bully boyz who have seized key cities and large swathes of the country, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Wednesday.

"Iraq has officially asked Washington to help under the security agreement (between the two countries), and to conduct air strikes against terrorist groups," Zebari told news hounds in Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
.

Militants, spearheaded by ISIL and joined by supporters of executed dictator Saddam Hussein, have in the past week overrun a large chunk of northern and north-central Iraq, although their advance has since been slowed.

"A military approach will not be enough. We acknowledge the need for drastic political solutions," Zebari said.
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant

#1  See RT@SKYNEWS BREAK > US SAYS IT HAS STARTED FLYING MANNED [F-18's?] + UNMANNED SURVEILLANCE AIRCRAFT IN IRAQ @AKHBAR.

B-52 BUFF'S andor B-1's would be better???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 06/19/2014 23:13 Comments || Top||

#2  JM,
The big boys have to have clear targets first.

Advanced Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance System (ATARS) is a system for image acquisition, data storage, and data link used by the United States Marine Corps on its F/A-18D Hornet aircraft. It consists of the Advanced Tactical Airborne Reconnaissance System (ATARS) with infrared and visible light sensors, two digital tape recorders, and a Reconnaissance Management System (RMS); an interface with the APG-73 Radar Upgrade (Phase II) which records synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery;

That is, at night, through a sandstorm, you get the picture.

and a digital data link mounted in a centerline pod. ATARS fits in the nose in place of the nose gun, with a small datalink pod mounted on the centerline station. The digital data link will transmit imagery and auxiliary data to any Common Imaging Ground/Surface Station (CIG/SS) compatible system including the Joint Services Imagery Processing System (JSIPS) or Marine Tactical Exploitation Group (TEG) based ashore and Navy JSIPS (JSIPS-N) aboard ship.

Back at the ranch, near real time. Pass the popcorn.
Posted by: Squinty || 06/19/2014 23:30 Comments || Top||


Sunni slaughter continues in Iraq
[Iraq Sun] The slaughter of Sunnis in Iraq has reportedly escalated even as the Iraqi ambassador warned the United States of a 'thousand the late Osama bin Laden
... who is now among the dear departed, though not among the dearest...
'. The reports also claim that Shiite snuffies killed about four dozen Sunni detainees who tried to flee with the help of bully boys, News.com.au reported. A local morgue official alleged that prisoners had wounds on head and chest while Iraqi military claimed that the Sunni inmates were killed by mortar shells and no barbarism was practiced.
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant


ISIL militants kidnap 100 foreign nationals in Iraq
[Iran Press TV] Militants from the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
(ISIL) have kidnapped approximately 100 foreign nationals in northern Iraq.

According to the Indian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday, 40 Indian citizens working for a Turkish construction company have been kidnapped near the Iraqi town of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...

The ISIL gunnies have also kidnapped some 60 foreigners including nationals from Turkey, Pakistain, Nepal and Turkmenistan in the northern region of Iraq.

Earlier this month, ISIL Death Eaters kidnapped nearly 50 staff members of the Turkish consulate in Mosul, including the head of the mission. Reports said the gunnies had also kidnapped 31 Turkish truck drivers in the Iraqi city a day earlier.

The abductions took place after the Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
gunnies gained control of parts of Iraq's northern areas, including Nineveh Province and its lovely provincial capital, Mosul, on June 10.

Iraqi armed forces have been engaged in heavy festivities with the bad boys, who have threatened to take their acts of violence to other Iraqi cities, including the capital, Storied Baghdad.
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant


Scores killed in battle for Baquba
[Iraq Sun] Scores of Iraqis were killed on Tuesday during a battle for the picturesque provincial capital of Baquba, Rooters reported. Fighting shut the main oil refinery, starving parts of the country of fuel and power as an uprising by Sunni Death Eaters threatens Iraq's survival as a state.

Government forces said they repelled an attempt by Death Eaters to seize Baquba, the capital of Diyala province north of Storied Baghdad, in heavy overnight fighting.

Some residents and officials said the dead included scores of prisoners from the local jail, although there were conflicting accounts of how they had died.

Earlier Tuesday, U.N. Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon
... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
urged Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party. Maliki imposed order on Basra wen the Shiites were going nuts, but has proven incapable of dealing with al-Qaeda's Sunni insurgency. Reelected to his third term in 2014...
to hold dialogue and have a more inclusive approach to his government, amid a surge in violence by Sunni Islamist snuffies who have taken control of several Iraqi cities.

Ban spoke to news hounds Tuesday in Geneva as snuffies from the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
threaten to attack the Iraqi capital, Storied Baghdad.

President Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody...
is sending 275 U.S. military personnel to Iraq to help provide security to the embassy in Storied Baghdad and U.S. personnel. The administration on Monday sought to reassure Americans that the deployment is not another open-ended commitment of troops to Iraq.

FILE - U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the situation in Iraq from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, June 13, 2014.4. x FILE - U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about the situation in Iraq from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, June 13, 2014.4. "This force is deploying for the purpose of protecting U.S. citizens and property, if necessary, and is equipped for combat," Obama said in a letter to politicians. "This force will remain in Iraq until the security situation becomes such that it is no longer needed."

Obama's notification to Congress Monday also said the move has the consent of the Iraqi government.

U.S. officials say 170 troops already are in Iraq, and about 100 more could be deployed as needed. Officials say the soldiers will help relocate some staff from the U.S. Embassy in Storied Baghdad.

The embassy itself remains open.

While the president has ruled out sending ground forces back into Iraq, he met with his national security team Monday to consider other options.

They include possible air strikes against the Sunni snuffies who already control large parts of northern Iraq and have vowed to seize Storied Baghdad from the Shiite-led government.

The U.S. also is considering working with Iran. But the Pentagon says it has no plans to enter into military cooperation with the Iranians in any action in Iraq.
Posted by: Fred || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq & the Levant


Iraq Official Says Iran's Military Mastermind Is In Charge
[Business Insider] Qassem Suleimani, the head of the Qods Force, the foreign arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps, is leading the Iraqi reaction to a radical Islamist group's takeover of much of the country, according to a senior Iraqi official quoted by The Guardian.

"Who do you think is running the war? Those three senior generals who ran away?" the unnamed official asked The Guardian's Martin Chulov. "Qassem Suleimani is in charge. And reporting directly to him are the militias, led by Asa'ib ahl al-Haq."
Well, if you're in charge, TAKE charge !

Posted by: Besoeker || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Should we then expects little kids armed with sticks to be herded together to charge ISIS machine gun nests?
Posted by: Squinty || 06/19/2014 0:09 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IAF respond to rocket fire with Gaza attack
[Ynet] Israel responded to rocket fire on Israel Wednesday, with IAF jets attacking a number of terror targets late Wednesday night.

According to a Paleostinian report, one person was maimed in the attack.

Earlier in the evening, two rockets were fired into Israel, with one exploding inside a southern Israeli community, causing light damage to a structure.
Keep your head down, habibi. We'll get to you in good time.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  IAF jets attacking a number of terror targets ... one person was maimed in the attack

Some pilots need more time with their video games.
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/19/2014 9:47 Comments || Top||


IPS To Implement Crackdown On Hamas Prisoners
[Ynet] Israel Prison Service will soon start to toughen the imprisonment conditions of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, security prisoners serving time in Israeli prisons.

Among the limitations expected to be imposed are limited visitations, limited access to electrical appliances such as television and limited food purchases at the prison cantina.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Civil Administration Raids Hamas-Affiliated Institutions In Hebron
[Ynet] Civil Administration forces raided overnight Monday several Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-affiliated institutions in the area of Hebron. The aim of the raid was to collect documents and additional materials that could incriminate and link the institutions to terror activities in the area of the West Bank.

Security officials estimate that these institutions engage in the laundering of money that the movement uses to finance terror activities against Israeli targets in the guise of civic activity. They further noted that Hamas uses these institutions to consolidate its position by taking advantage of weak populations.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Police Fire At Stone Throwers, Palestinian Wounded
[Ynet] Border patrol officers of the Shomron regional council fired at Paleostinians who threw stones at buses on Highway 5 near the area of Gitai Avisar between the settlements of Ariel and Barkan.

A Paleostinian from the village of Haras that was injured by the gunfire was evacuated to the Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva for treatment and was later tossed in the slammer
You have the right to remain silent...
.
Hopefully he'll be thoroughly questioned and examined before being allowed to return to the village.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Big-name arrest, but Abu Sayyaf resiliant
Philippine security forces believe they have cut a critical link between overseas financiers and the Abu Sayyaf Group. But last week’s capture of most-wanted terror suspect Khair Mundos in Manila left officials acknowledging they still face a long fight to wipe out the network in its strongholds in the country’s remote south.

Police arrested Mundos in a slum area close to Manila airport on June 11. He was on the U.S. State Department’s "most wanted" list, with a $500,000 offer for information leading to his capture.

Mundos had been a fugitive since 2007, when he escaped prison after admitting that he transferred funds between al Qaeda and the leader of Abu Sayyaf. Philippine military spokesman Lt. Col. Ramon Zagala said, "He’s very important in the sense that he’d get financing for the Abu Sayyaf Group. He would do their [weapons] procurement, and look for foreign donors."

Zagala also alleged that Mundos had personally planned attacks. He said, "We’ve taken away their ability to plan terrorist attacks. But now new challenges have erupted from their criminality."

Mundos was one of the group’s last leaders inspired by the idea of jihad, rather than the profits from ransoming hostages, according to Rommel Banlaoi, executive director of a Manila-based think-tank. Banlaoi said, "In terms of ideological propagation, [Mundos’ recapture] deals a big blow to the Abu Sayyaf Group."

The shift from being ideological militants to organized criminals has, if anything, only increased the group’s resilience, Banlaoi contends. He said, "Kidnapping for ransom is now more of a communal enterprise," with the lines between Abu Sayyaf members and their associates or relatives increasingly blurred.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Abu Sayyaf


One killed, seven injured in four bombings in southern Thailand
A civilian was killed and seven defense volunteers wounded in four bomb attacks by suspected terrorists insurgents in Narathiwat's Joh I Rong and Chanae districts yesterday.

The first bombing occurred in Joh I Rong district at 7:40 a.m. A teacher protection team of six defense volunteers on three motorcycles was near the explosion but received only mild injuries.

The second roadside bomb was at 9:55 a.m. in Chanae district while a paramilitary ranger team was on foot patrol. Paramilitary ranger volunteer Natthanan Kaewsawang was hit in the ear by a bomb fragment.

As a bomb squad and forensic police team went to inspect the bomb in Chanae district, its two cars were damaged by road spikes. A third bomb was detonated at 10:53 a.m., tearing a police car's front tire.

A fourth bomb went off at about 11 a.m. when a male villager on a motorcycle passed the spot and was killed instantly.
Posted by: ryuge || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria bombing kills 20 in refugee camp near Jordan border
Syrian army helicopters bombed a refugee camp along the Jordanian border on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people, mostly children and women, residents and opposition activists said.

They said the army dropped several barrel bombs - highly destructive improvised explosives, use of which has been condemned by Western powers as a war crime - on the camp in the village of Shajra, 2km from the Jordanian border.

Hundreds of families fleeing intensified fighting between rebels and the army in southern Syria in recent months had taken shelter in the town near the border, which Jordan closed last year after taking in hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees. Authorities now allow only a trickle of refugees into Jordan from a UN-funded border crossing in a desolate area close to the frontier with Iraq, where relief agencies say they have to endure days of hardship before arriving.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/19/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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