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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 02/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's definitely Ladies Who Wear Hats week. I can't wait to see what the next few days brings in terms of Bloid Girls!
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/23/2010 4:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Happy Birthday

Gone to the Big Gam Locker in the Sky

Majel Leigh Hudec aka Majel Barrett aka Mrs. Gene Roddenberry "The First Lady of Star Trek"
Diane Varsi


Caution – Open Daily Gam Shots at your own risk.


Patricia Richardson aka Sheila Brooks "The West Wing" (59)



Kristin Davis aka Charlotte York Goldenblatt " S@x and the City" (45)


Nightie Night


Marie-Josée Croze aka Jeanette the Dutch Assassin "Munich" (40)




Carol Denise Ensley aka Niecy Nash aka Deputy Raineesha Williams "Reno 911!" (40)


Daily Gam Shot NSFW


Kelly Macdonald aka Carla Jean Moss in "No Country for Old Men" (34)


Daily Gam Shot



Emily Blunt aka Gwen Conliffe in "The Wolfman" aka Emily Charlton "The Devil Wears Prada" (27)


Drapes are too small


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 02/23/2010 5:57 Comments || Top||

#3  That first "daily gam shot" is not just NSFW that's definitely NSFB (not safe for breakfast)
Posted by: AlanC || 02/23/2010 8:22 Comments || Top||

#4  A. A. (Ample Ass) I'm sure some men love big butts, not me.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 02/23/2010 12:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Nice "side-boob" from Emily there.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 02/23/2010 12:53 Comments || Top||

#6  anybody have any idea how I received this e mail?

Hello.
Hello.
I am"miss Sandra single, how are you? hope you are fine and in perfect condition of health.I saw your contact in rantburg.com today and took interest in it,if you don't mind i will like to know you much better,although i came online to look for a true and loving person that is ready for a true, honest and loving relationship, i believe you are the kind of person am talking about,if you don't mind send me a mail now on my private box sandradon26@yahoo.com,so that i will tell you all about myself and a picture of myself.looking forward to hear from you.
Sandra

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Posted by: bman || 02/23/2010 15:48 Comments || Top||

#7  You must be a Rantburg 'Premium Member' bman.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/23/2010 15:57 Comments || Top||

#8  A rare miss by GolfBravo: as anyone who saw Emily Blunt in Charlie Wilson's War will attest, she may have the best gams of the 21st century
Posted by: regular joe || 02/23/2010 16:20 Comments || Top||

#9  Regular Joe

The Photogs do not seem to spend much film on Emily's gams. They are more focused on other assets.

To each his own
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 02/23/2010 17:27 Comments || Top||

#10  Yeah, bman. Me.
From the email, at first, I thought was Susan Sarandon wanting me to barf on her.
You have my blessing. She's all yours, man...
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/23/2010 18:55 Comments || Top||

#11  Looks like they're keeping track of where they hoover their email addresses.
Posted by: Fred || 02/23/2010 20:06 Comments || Top||

#12  Yeah, I got one of those emails also - sourced from Rantburg.
And I did laugh, before I sent it to the 'spam file.'
I know, I love ya all like brothers ... but how lame can they be, someone trolling for dates from Rantburg?
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 02/23/2010 21:59 Comments || Top||

#13  Jeebus. Is that right? I'm supposed to meet her this weekend as soon as she verifies who I am by my SSN, Bank, ATM pin, et al. She sounds hot, if somewhat English-as-a-fourth-language. I hope she's not wearing a sack or a unibrow
Posted by: Frank G || 02/23/2010 22:19 Comments || Top||

#14  I hope she's not wearing a sack or a unibrow

You better hope she's not wearing a strap-on...
Posted by: badanov || 02/23/2010 22:23 Comments || Top||

#15  *grimace*
Posted by: Frank G || 02/23/2010 22:25 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
I shot an Rocket into the air It fell to earth I know not where,
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 02/23/2010 11:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Why are they so eager to show this video? It doesn't look like they hit anything.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/23/2010 11:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Those meatwads didn't seem to hit anything did they?
Posted by: GirlThursday || 02/23/2010 11:56 Comments || Top||

#3  I think we did this in Boy Scouts once. Are we sure this video wasn't shot at Philmont?
Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division || 02/23/2010 11:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Living Proof the Israelis were right to shell rocket launch sites.

One whoosh and the crappy music goes BLAMMO.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 02/23/2010 12:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Geez, Philmont is a heck of a lot nicer, whudd it ever do to you? :-)
Posted by: GirlThursday || 02/23/2010 12:22 Comments || Top||

#6  why aren't we seeing an airburst after the second or third rocket?
Posted by: chris || 02/23/2010 13:04 Comments || Top||

#7  I expected either an A-10, F-16, or Apache appearance any time after the second shot. Makes me wonder if this "film" isn't just some very carefully spliced-together propaganda.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 02/23/2010 13:45 Comments || Top||

#8  Philmont may have changed a hell of a lot in the last twenty years, but when I was there, they would have had screaming fits if a troop started setting off incendiary devices in the dry brush like that.
Posted by: Mitch H. || 02/23/2010 14:04 Comments || Top||

#9  That's quite a casual stroll away for being within rocket range of an "American base". It's almost like...they're not anywhere near an "American base".
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/23/2010 14:11 Comments || Top||

#10  Piss poor propaganda. They look like a bunch of idiots. Who would want to join them? Oh, that's right. Idiots.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/23/2010 14:30 Comments || Top||

#11  As Sahab (the clouds) is 'celebrating' their 5th year of production.
Posted by: lord garth || 02/23/2010 15:05 Comments || Top||

#12  Two shots then I would expect counter fire from the "American Base" or while they were trudging down the mountain the would get a visit from the skies.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 02/23/2010 15:14 Comments || Top||

#13  This explains why they have to strap the explosives to their bodies and walk them to the target.
Posted by: DoDo || 02/23/2010 15:26 Comments || Top||

#14  Crap, Any sh*t-faced drunk fourth-of-july-celebrating trailer bum can shoot better than that.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/23/2010 15:48 Comments || Top||

#15  Notice how the camera never follows the rocket? It starts to move and we see trees and bushes and then cuts away to show explosions. At least two of tose appear to be one and the same.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 02/23/2010 16:05 Comments || Top||

#16  At the 0:30 mark I think I make out the USS Flagg near what looks like snowpack.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 02/23/2010 16:28 Comments || Top||

#17  Shoot, tell them boys to come to Kansas and we'll show'em how country boys do it up right.

http://www.kloudbusters.org/

Would encourage any or all of you to attend sometime as it is a riot for the whole family.
Posted by: Everydat a Wildcat(KSU) || 02/23/2010 16:57 Comments || Top||


Combat Footage Korengal Valley Engagement
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 02/23/2010 11:32 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thx GB
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/23/2010 12:25 Comments || Top||

#2  GB check out www.apacheclips.com, you may see alot of stuff you like there
Posted by: chris || 02/23/2010 13:05 Comments || Top||


Michael Yon: Whispers
Posted by: 3dc || 02/23/2010 02:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That dispatch right there deserves a Pulitzer.

Lucy ... in the sky ... with whispers.
Posted by: crosspatch || 02/23/2010 3:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Ditto to crosspatch.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 02/23/2010 8:44 Comments || Top||

#3  Why would anyone want to be dirty with the Duranty Award? It's like the Nobel after Le Duc Tho, Arafat, Carter, Gore, Obama et al.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/23/2010 9:26 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
U.S. Navy rescues Tanzanian ship, nabs 8 pirates
A U.S. Navy warship prevented an attack on a Tanzanian ship and apprehended eight suspected pirates in the process, the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania said on Tuesday. USS Farragut dispatched an SH-60B Seahawk helicopter to MV Barakaale 1 after it raised a distress call saying it was under attack from a gang on a skiff, the embassy said in a statement.

"The helicopter then stopped the ... skiff as it attempted to speed away, by firing warning shots across its bow," it said. "A boarding team from USS Farragut boarded the vessel and the eight suspected pirates were taken aboard the Farragut."

The statement did not say when and where the incident occurred, nor give the pirates' nationalities. The USS Farragut is a guided missile destroyer and part of Combined Task Force 151 that patrols the Gulf of Aden and the east coast of Somalia.

The number of piracy attacks worldwide jumped by 40 percent last year, with gunmen from the failed Horn of Africa state accounting for more than half the 406 reported incidents, according to the International Maritime Bureau.
Posted by: tipper || 02/23/2010 11:01 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What?
Has the Navy removed all it's Yardarms?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 02/23/2010 12:20 Comments || Top||

#2  What do we do with them now that we've caught them? Set them up with homes and jobs in Detroit or something?
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/23/2010 12:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Was the correct Pirate MIRANDA WARNING issues?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/23/2010 12:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Just one word.................chum.
Posted by: AlanC || 02/23/2010 13:41 Comments || Top||


Africa North
French hostage survives al-Qaeda deadline
[Maghrebia] One day after the expiration of an al-Qaeda deadline for his life, kidnapped Frenchman Peter Camatte was reportedly still alive in northern Mali, AFP quoted a Malian negotiator as saying on Sunday (February 21st). "We have had the assurance of those who hold him," the negotiator confirmed.

Four prisoners, whose release was demanded by AQIM in exchange for Camatte, were freed Thursday by a Bamako court. The two Mauritanians, a Burkinabe and an Algerian were still in custody on Sunday, according to a source quoted by AFP. Along with Camatte, three Spanish aid workers and an Italian couple kidnapped in Mauritania remain held by al-Qaeda.

In other developments Monday, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos called on the media to exercise discretion regarding coverage of the Spanish hostages. Asked at a press conference about rumours that Spain had paid a $5 million ransom, Moratinos refused to comment, saying only that the Spanish government would continue working on the case.
Posted by: Fred || 02/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Bangladesh
Jamaat leader remanded again
[Bangla Daily Star] Police arrested four more cadres of Islami Chhatra Shibir, an associated organisation of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, at Rajshahi University yesterday.

The arrestees are Rahat, a sixth semester student of management department, Riad Ibne Ahad, Arifuzzaman and Monjurul Islam, third year students of law and justice department of the university.

Sources said BCL activists beat up Rahat in front of the management department in Rabindra Arts building suspecting him a Shibir cadre and handed him over to police around 12:30pm. Later, police picked up Riad, Arifuzzaman and Monjurul while they were taking the university exam.

Following the arrests, the RU Institute of Business Administration (IBA) suspended all academic activities till February 25 while departments of Marketing and Management postponed all scheduled exams indefinitely.

Officer-in-Charge of Motihar Police Station Tofazzel Hossain said the arrests were made on suspicion of their involvement in six cases filed in connection with the recent RU violence. "We will take further action after interrogating them," the OC said.

In another incident, Motihar police yesterday recovered 21 'jihadi' books from Rahamatunnessa Hall, a female dormitory of Rajshahi University. Police said they recovered those from below a staircase of the hall around 9.30am after the university authorities had informed them.

Our staff correspondent from Rajshahi added, the Rajshahi city Jamaat assistant general secretary Siddik Hossain, arrested over the February 9 Rajshahi University violence, was taken on another three days' police remand yesterday.

The additional chief metropolitan magistrate court granted the police three days when they prayed for five days' remand against Siddik.

Meanwhile, police arrested Faruk Hossain, 26, a Shibir cadre, on charge of killing of Hafizur Rahman Shahin, another Shibir cadre of Rajshahi University unit, from Chamar Bazar in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj Sunday evening.

A court sent him to jail after he was produced before it yesterday, police said.
Posted by: Fred || 02/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


Europe
Germany arrests 3 suspected of helping extremists
[Dawn] German police have arrested three people suspected of helping a radical Islamist group whose followers have confessed to planning attacks on US targets in Germany, prosecutors said on Monday.

The federal prosecutor's office said it suspected two men whom it identified only as Alican T. and Fatih K., and one woman, Filiz G., of supporting the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU), a group often linked to a militant exremists movement that originated in Uzbekistan, reports Reuters.

"They are accused of aiding the terrorist group financially," said Marcus Koehler, a spokesman for the prosecution, adding that the charges involved the transfer of several thousand Euros to accounts in Turkey late last year.

Four men affiliated to the IJU and known as the "Sauerland group" are on trial in the western city of Duesseldorf for planning bomb attacks on US institutions in Germany.

A verdict in that case is due in the next week or two.

Prosecutors said the three suspects arrested on Saturday were apprehended in Berlin and the southern city of Ulm, are aged between 20 and 31 years, and hold German citizenship.
That last clause is an interesting phrasing, implying they were not true Germans. The age suggests the children of immigrants rather than individuals who chose to acquire German citizenship. Thus, Turks.
Posted by: Fred || 02/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
NYC terrorism suspect pleads guilty in bomb plot
Snip. Duplicate.
Posted by: ed || 02/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Please delete.
Posted by: ed || 02/23/2010 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Deleted per your request, ed. It didn't show up as a duplicate when you submitted, because you had a different URL for the AP article.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/23/2010 5:04 Comments || Top||


Zazi Pleads Guilty in Plot to Bomb Subways
Najibullah Zazi, the Afghan immigrant who was a key player in what the federal authorities have said was one of the most serious threats to the United States since the 9/11 attacks, pleaded guilty on Monday to terrorism charges after admitting to a plot to blow up the subways.

He admitted that he came to New York around the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks to kill himself and others on the subway, to draw attention to the killing of Afghan civilians by the United States military.

Mr. Zazi appeared before Judge Raymond J. Dearie at Federal District Court in Brooklyn. He pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, conspiracy to commit murder overseas, and providing material support for a terrorist organization. He faces a sentence of life in prison.

Two people with knowledge of the case said that in recent weeks, Mr. Zazi had begun providing information to prosecutors as part of the initial stages of an agreement that led up to his guilty plea Monday.

Such an arrangement suggests that prosecutors believe Mr. Zazi can provide valuable information, including evidence about the plot and the involvement of others, including those who may be overseas, and other intelligence on Al Qaeda.

Spokesmen for the F.B.I. and the office of the United States attorney in Brooklyn, Benton J. Campbell, declined to comment.

Throughout the 45-minute proceeding on Monday, Mr. Zazi seemed unaffected by his circumstances, even smiling on several occasions. And when he spoke, he did so in an unapologetic, matter-of-fact manner.

"I would sacrifice myself to bring attention to what the United States military was doing to civilians in Afghanistan," he said to the judge.

Mr. Zazi, who was born in Afghanistan and was raised in Pakistan and later in Flushing, Queens, where he attended high school, was working as an airport shuttle driver in Denver when he was arrested in September 2009.

The federal authorities said he had received weapons and explosives training at a Qaeda camp in Pakistan, bought beauty products that contained the raw materials to build a bomb and traveled to Queens with bomb-making instructions in his laptop on the eve of the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

A number of other people have been arrested in the case, including his father, his uncle and two of his classmates at Flushing High School. Those actions, including the filing of more serious charges against his father earlier this month, may have in some way influenced the decision to plead guilty, another lawyer suggested.

"I am aware that he is under intense pressure because of what's happening," the lawyer said.
More from FoxNews:
He told prosecutors that he was armed with bomb-making components while en route to New York City last year, but flushed them down the toilet in a New York City apartment after getting spooked by a traffic stop on the George Washington Bridge while entering the city.

Zazi had driven a rented car from Denver to New York, arriving Sept. 10, 2009, the day before the eighth anniversary of the 2001 attacks. Searches of Zazi's car after he arrived turned up bomb-making plans on a laptop computer, but no actual devices or materials.

One of the people familiar with the Zazi case told the Associated Press that Zazi decided to offer the information after being warned that his mother could face criminal immigration charges.

Zazi's father was charged this month with trying to get rid of chemicals and other evidence. But it appears he was cut a break: After initially demanding that he be jailed in Brooklyn without bail, prosecutors agreed to a deal on Feb. 17 releasing him on $50,000 bond and allowing him to return to his home in suburban Denver.

By contrast, bond for a Queens imam charged with lying to the FBI about phone contact with Zazi when Zazi was in New York was set at $1.5 million. A friend of Zazi, New York cab driver Zarein Ahemdzay, was jailed without bail on a similar lying charge.

Another one of the people said that Zazi told prosecutors that he made roughly two pounds of a powerful and highly unstable explosive called triacetone triperoxide, or TATP. The same explosive was used by would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid in 2001 and the terrorists who carried out the London bombings in 2005 that killed 52 people.

In those instances, TATP was not the main charge; it was the detonator. The 1.5 grams in Reid's shoe was supposed to help detonate the plastic explosives aboard a jetliner, and it was used to set off a mixture of black pepper and hydrogen peroxide in London.

Experts have said the TATP in the Zazi case was probably going to be just the detonator.

Authorities say Ahmedzay and another New Yorker charged in the case, Adis Medunjanin, traveled to Pakistan with Zazi in 2008. Medunjanin has pleaded not guilty to charges he conspired to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan and remains jailed. The three men, former high school classmates in Queens, are scheduled to appear in federal court in Brooklyn on Feb. 25.

Officials earlier confirmed reports week that Zazi's uncle had been arraigned on a felony count in secret — a sign that he also could be cooperating.
And from AP:
Najibullah Zazi told a judge the terror network recruited him to be a suicide bomber in New York, where he went to high school and once worked a coffee car just blocks from the World Trade Center site.

Zazi said in court he went to Pakistan in 2008 to join the Taliban and fight against the U.S. military but was recruited by the terrorist network and went into a training camp in Warziristan, a region of Pakistan where al-Qaida is known to operate. Zazi said he received weapons training at the camp and later learned about explosives.

Zazi also said in court that he had been in contact with an al-Qaida leader while in Pakistan but did not identify the person. "We were recruited by al-Qaida ... to go the United States in a martyrdom plan," he said.

He said the terrorism plot was aimed at the city subway system but did not name a specific target.
AFP adds:
He told the federal court in Brooklyn that his plans to blow up New York targets just after the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks included "mortal operations" in the underground train system.

US Attorney General Eric Holder, describing the plot as one of the most "serious" terrorist threats since September 11, 2001, hailed the guilty plea as evidence that the civilian court system was an appropriate forum to prosecute suspected terrorists.

At a press conference after the plea was announced, he criticized those who "denigrate" the civilian justice system because they oppose a plan to try the alleged 9/11 plotters attack before US courts.

"In this case as it has been in so many other ones, the criminal justice system has proved to be an invaluable weapon for incapacitating plots and obtaining intelligence," he said. "To denigrate the use of this tool flies in the face of the facts, flies in the face of the history of this tool, it's more about politics."

He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison for the first two charges and 15 years for the third. However, his plea appears to be part of a bargain in which he could receive more lenient punishment in return for cooperating with investigators.

Sentencing was scheduled for June 25.

Zazi was intending to set off bombs either on September 14, 15 or 16, 2009, the Department of Justice says. But he left after receiving a tip-off that he was being watched by federal agents.

He admitted in court Monday that "I also took trips to New York city to plan" the attacks. However, he said that instead of carrying out the plot, "we threw away the explosive material."
Posted by: Fred || 02/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  That sure answers the question "Is Life in an American prison better than life in Afganistan"?

Answer, a resounding YES.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 02/23/2010 3:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Serious question, does black pepper explode, or was it an irritant?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 02/23/2010 12:17 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Reports: Another Taliban Leader Caught in Pakistan
A top Afghan Taliban leader has been captured in Pakistan in what would be the fourth detention in recent weeks of senior members of the insurgent group, U.S. media reported Tuesday.

Mullah Abdul Kabir, a member of the militia's ruling council, was picked up several days ago in Nowshera district in Pakistan's northwest, according to reports in The New York Times and Washington Post that cited unnamed Pakistani security officials.

Pakistani officials declined to confirm the reports to The Associated Press.

If confirmed, the arrest would be a further sign that Pakistan is turning away from its old strategy of allowing Afghan Taliban leaders safe haven in the country -- something that could have far-reaching implications for the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan.

The reports gave few details of Kabir's arrest, except that it happened recently.
Posted by: tipper || 02/23/2010 08:36 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Surprise,Surprise-All of a sudden they know where they are!

What has happened to the ISI or as read elsewhere the guys that have been nabbed were the ones who wanted peace talks?
Posted by: Paul2 || 02/23/2010 10:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Makes you wonder if there's a purge on in the ISI.
Posted by: Fred || 02/23/2010 12:28 Comments || Top||


Pak senate passes resolution on Dr Aafia's case
The Senate passed a resolution today expressing its grave concern over the sentence awarded to Pakistani national Dr. Aafia Siddiqui by an American jury, reports DawnNews.

The resolution moved by Talha Mehmood demanded of the government to take effective steps including diplomatic measures to get her released immediately. The House is transacting private members' business today.

The Chairman Mr. Farooq H. Naek referred two Bills moved by Mian Raza Rabbani to the standing committees concerned for report.

The Bills are the State Bank of Pakistan (Amendment) and The SBP Banking Services Corporation Ordinance (Repeal) Bill.
Posted by: Fred || 02/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Respond by putting her in a more violent jail.
Posted by: 3dc || 02/23/2010 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Dear Pak Senate:
Phhhhhhhtttttt!
Sincerely,
The American People
Posted by: Ptah || 02/23/2010 9:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Given that passing resolutions of grave concern, even though they accomplish nothing, is much less destructive than the usual activities of the Pakistani Senate, I wish they would spend more time devising, arguing over, and passing such things.
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/23/2010 20:12 Comments || Top||


Militant leader claims he rejected offers to explode bombs in Pakistan
[The News (Pak) Top Stories] A known Taliban commander, Qari Ziaur Rehman, who has been engaged in fighting against security forces in Bajaur, claimed on Sunday that he had rejected lucrative offers and financial support offered to him by Afghanistan's Northern Alliance for fighting against the Pakistani military and carrying out bomb blasts in the country.

He also claimed that the militants in Bajaur had deposed regional Taliban chief Maulana Faqir Muhammad for his alleged secret links to the government and for refusing to resist security forces in their recent advancement on the militant strongholds in Mamond area.

"I received lucrative offers from the Northern Alliance of Afghanistan," claimed Ziaur Rehman. Talking to The News by phone from an undisclosed location, he said he and his fighters had been fighting under certain compulsions in Pakistan.

The government had declared him an Afghan national, hailing from the Kunar province bordering the Bajaur tribal region, and announced Rs 5 million as head money for him for having association with the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and organising attacks on troops in Bajaur.

He, however, denied his Afghan nationality, arguing that if so, why the Pakistani government issued him a computerised national identity card (CNIC). "You may know the tribesmen live and have properties on both sides of the Pak-Afghan border. My forefathers were born and died in Bajaur and I am a Pakistani by birth," argued the militant commander, who was described by the Pakistani military authorities as one of the most ruthless commanders operating in Bajaur.

He said some of his relatives had migrated to Kunar in Afghanistan from the Mamond area of Bajaur where they are still known as "Bajauri Mamond." Ziaur Rahman claimed that he had been made the commander for both Bajaur and Marawara area in the Kunar province. He admitted that security forces had captured most areas of Bajaur, particularly Mamond, which had been a stronghold of Maulana Faqir Muhammad-led militants.

Ziaur Rahman said Faqir Muhammad had been replaced by Commander Jamaluddin Dadullah, as the former had struck an underhand deal with the government and refused to fight the advancing security forces in Mamond. He said the militants had vacated their positions under a strategy and would launch guerrilla attacks against the troops once they entered their areas of control.
Posted by: Fred || 02/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


At least 34 militants arrested in Hangu
[Dawn] The crackdown against militants continues as at least 34 suspected militants were arrested on Monday in a joint operation by police and FC forces in Hangu along the region bordering Orakzai Agency.

According to the district police officer, the operation is aimed at curbing increasing incidents of kidnappings for ransom and terrorism. It was conducted in Thall, Doaba, Kahi, Darsamand and Naryab areas.

Arms and ammunition were also recovered during the operations.

Meanwhile in the Khyber Agency, at least 25 militants were arrested in Bara Tehsil during a door-to-door search operation.

The operation started after an early morning attack on an FC camp in the area. A curfew has been imposed in the area as security forces continued to pound militant hideouts.
Posted by: Fred || 02/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Terror revisits Swat; 7 killed in Mingora
[Dawn] Five civilians and two security personnel were killed and 37 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a military convoy in Swat valley's main town of Mingora on Monday.

The convoy was attacked when it was passing through the busy Nishat Chowk.

After the blast, which destroyed eight vehicles and damaged a number of shops, people were seen running for safety and soon the streets were deserted.

According to agency reports, the bomber used a car packed with explosives to attack the convoy.

This was the third suicide attack in Swat since a military operation was launched in May last year. The valley which had suffered bloody clashes and subversive activities earlier has been relatively peaceful for some time.

ANP lawmaker Shamsher Ali Khan was killed in a suicide attack in December last year.

A witness of the Monday attack said there was a fireball and an explosion which rocked the entire city. The scene was littered with human limbs and injured people were lying all around.

The injured were taken to the Saidu Sharif hospital. Firemen struggled for hours to put out the fire.

AFP adds: Television footage showed a car enveloped in flames and black smoke billowing down a street, as casualties lay on the ground in blood-soaked clothing. Soldiers rushed to the scene and ambulances ferried away the wounded.
Frightened women and children could be seen scurrying from the scene.

"I was going for some work in the bazaar but was stopped by security forces because the army convoy was moving," said Saeedur Rehman, a 45-year-old teacher. Moments later, a car hit the tail end of the military convoy.

"Suddenly there was a huge blast and smoke filled the area. Then heavy firing started and I lay on the ground," Rehman told AFP.

Officials said they had seized parts of the car used by the bomber. "Four women, two children and three men were killed," city police chief Qazi Ghulam Farooq said, adding that four of the injured were in a serious condition. "It was a suicide car bomb... The target was an army convoy," Maj Mushtaq Ahmad Khan of the Swat Media Centre said.
Posted by: Fred || 02/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


‘Beheaded, my brother became a Sikh martyr'
ATTARI: ``I am proud of my brother, he has not been killed, he has attained martyrdom for the honour of Sikh religion. He refused to convert to Islam and preferred to lay down his life,'' an inconsolable Taranjit Singh told TOI here on Monday, a day after his cousin's beheaded body was found.

Pakistani Taliban had ruthlessly beheaded Jaspal Singh and Mahal Singh while two others - Gurjit Singh and Gurvinder Singh - are still in their custody. Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee president Sham Singh, however, said only Jaspal Singh had been killed.

Jaspal's cousin, Taranjit, who lives in Lahore, has been in India for the past three weeks on a pilgrimage. He revealed that the kidnapping of Sikhs by Taliban was not only for money, but also to threaten the small Sikh community of Pakistan to embrace Islam.

Taranjit, who was on his way back to Pakistan, said: ``Had it only been about money, we (the Sikh community of Peshawar) would have contributed and paid the hefty ransom of Rs 3 crore and forgotten about it for the sake of their lives. But they (Taliban) had forced Jaspal to cut his hair and convert to Islam to which my brother refused and they beheaded him.'' He said Jaspal had sacrificed his life for the religion and to protect his identity.

"I have to go and see how the situation is there for us,'' he said, unsure of the fate of the Sikh community in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) bordering Afghanistan. He, however, admitted that he was afraid to return home.

Kirpal Singh, brother-in-law of the victim, said, ``Jaspal and his mother were also to accompany us and they had even got the visa for pilgrimage, but then he was abducted.'' Jaspal is survived by four children, including two daughters, and his widow, he added.

Sikhs in general were safe in Pakistan, but in FATA and other areas under control of Orkazai Agency, Taliban set their own rules, Kirpal Singh said.
Posted by: john frum || 02/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Operation Bluestar.

Revenge isnt a sole trademark of the Islam.
Posted by: Oscar || 02/23/2010 6:21 Comments || Top||

#2  I'll quote from a British officer describing the 1947 partition:
"The cimes commited by the Hindus against the Moslims roughly equaled the crimes committed by the Moslims against the Hindus. However, the outrages committed by the Sikh against the Moslims far exceeded the killings by anyone else."

i.e. Watch out. You're messing with the wrong crowd.
Posted by: Frozen Al || 02/23/2010 11:40 Comments || Top||

#3  to#2 do not believe from a moment the historical accounts of the British, they were/are Muslim admirers, since the time of Lawrence of Arabia, and before that.
Posted by: Ana || 02/23/2010 15:18 Comments || Top||


Iraq
US lawmakers push to phase out wartime contractors - In the middle of a war.
WASHINGTON — Two lawmakers announced legislation Monday that would force the United States to phase out its controversial use of private security contractors in war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan.

Democratic Representative Jan Schakowsky and Independent Senator Bernie Sanders said they planned to introduce the "Stop Outsourcing Security Act" on Tuesday.

"The legislation would restore the responsibility of the American military to train troops and police, guard convoys, repair weapons, administer military prisons, and perform military intelligence," their offices said.

"The bill also would require that all diplomatic security be undertaken by US government personnel," they said.

The US reliance on private security contractors has drawn heavy fire, notably after a 2007 incident in which employees of Blackwater, since renamed Xe, were accused of shooting to death 17 civilians in Baghdad.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/23/2010 03:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So WHEN (not if) American military personnel have to shoot up some people to defend our diplomats there won't be any available scapegoat to blame for 'excessive force.' Somehow that doesn't sound like an optimal PR plan to me.
Of course, maybe our military people will be given (and follow, of course) restrictive ROE, and some diplomats would get killed.....
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/23/2010 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Contractors are the wave of the future, because they are a LOT cheaper than using conventional forces, that cost an arm and a leg, to do things like flip hamburgers.

And having our military guarding a bunch of wealthy and connected foreign VIPs, who could easily afford their own security, just so they can show how much "juice" they have to their countrymen, is demeaning.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 02/23/2010 8:55 Comments || Top||

#3  At the end of Gulf War I, the US had 750,000 in its Army. At the start of this current WOT, the US had 480,000 in the Army. It took several years and painful frequent rotation policies to add about another 30,000 in a 'temporary' increase. Now the usual suspects want to once again decree added missions without the resources.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/23/2010 9:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Contractors are simply the first target of these leftest surrender monkeys. The ultimate target is the military itself.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/23/2010 10:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Schakowsky and Sanders are two despicable pieces of excrement. Always have been, always will. At least Sander's spouse wasn't convicted of criminal acts
Posted by: Frank G || 02/23/2010 19:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Maybe Bernie will piss off Blackwater/Xe enough that they'll put a crew together and take over Vermont.
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/23/2010 19:37 Comments || Top||


Gunmen slaughter Iraqi families, behead victims
[Mail and Globe] Gunmen shot dead two Iraqi families, mostly children, and beheaded some of the 11 victims on Monday as a spate of brutal attacks hit the country less than two weeks before elections.

The family members were killed in their homes in and around Baghdad, while another 11 people died in violence across Iraq, including three in a suicide car bombing and a police commando who was shot dead by a sniper.

The worst incident occurred in Al-Wehdah, a predominantly Shiite Muslim town in an ethnically mixed area about 20 km southeast of Baghdad.

Eight members of the same family, including six children younger than 12, were shot dead and several were beheaded.

"A terrorist group carried out at 7:00 am (0400 GMT) a brutal crime against a family in Al-Wehdah," the Baghdad Operations Command said in a statement.

"This gang killed eight members of this family using silencer pistols. The criminals have beheaded some of them."

Beheadings have been the trademark of Sunni insurgents in Iraq, particularly Al-Qaeda militants in the violence that flared after the 2003 US-led invasion, although the motive for the attack was unclear.

Baghdad police said they later apprehended four people carrying silencers in connection with the murders, after receiving a tip-off.

A second family, comprising a mother and her two daughters, was shot dead in their home in the mostly Shiite north Baghdad district of al-Hurriyah, a police official said on condition of anonymity.
Posted by: Fred || 02/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq

#1  Look for the bodies to show up at the next Dronezap as "Killed by the Americans".
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 02/23/2010 3:29 Comments || Top||

#2  It's becoming almost like "guess that party".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/23/2010 5:08 Comments || Top||


Eight killed in spate of attacks across Iraq
[Dawn] Eight people were killed on Monday in Iraq, including a father and son in a suicide car bombing, and five members of the Iraqi security forces, in violence less than two weeks from elections.

The suicide car bomber struck an interior ministry detention centre in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, killing a man, his six-year-old son and a policeman, said a police officer and a doctor at the city's hospital.

The attack occurred around 12:20 pm and left also four people wounded, including two policemen.

Ramadi, 100 kilometres west of Baghdad, was a key insurgent base in the aftermath of the 2003 US-led invasion, but local Sunni tribes have since 2006 sided with the US military.

Day-to-day violence has dropped dramatically as Al-Qaeda fighters have been ejected but the city has seen a spate of recent attacks, including three bombings of the provincial governor's building.

The violence comes ahead of parliamentary elections on March 7, the second legislative polls since ouster of dictator Saddam Hussein after the invasion.

In the restive northern city of Mosul, meanwhile, two Iraqi soldiers were killed when their checkpoint came under fire from unidentified gunmen on Monday morning, police Captain Muwafaq Khadhim said.

In a separate incident two policemen were shot dead at around midday while manning a checkpoint near a popular market in central Mosul, Lieutenant Marwan Abdul Karim said.

And in Baghdad, higher education ministry official and university professor Thamer Kamil was gunned down while he was in the east Baghdad Al-Canal area, a policeman said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Five civilians were earlier wounded when several mortars hit Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, which is home to several foreign embassies and government departments, an interior ministry official said.
Posted by: Fred || 02/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency


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Clashes in W. Bank over Israel restoration plans
[Al Arabiya Latest] Palestinians clashed with Israeli troops in the West Bank town of Hebron on Monday amid outrage over Israel's plan to restore two flashpoint holy sites in the occupied territory.

Dozens of young Palestinians hurled rocks at an Israeli military checkpoint in the city as troops fired tear-gas and stun grenades, an AFP correspondent said. A strike closed down shops and schools.

"Approximately 100 Palestinians were burning tires and throwing rocks at IDF (Israeli military) soldiers," an army spokeswoman said, adding that one soldier was slightly injured.

There were no reports of any Palestinians wounded.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sparked anger on Sunday when he said he hoped to include the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem in a $100 million plan to restore national heritage sites.

"We strongly condemn this decision which yet again confirms the Israeli government's determination to impose facts on the ground," chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat told AFP by phone from Paris, where he was accompanying Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on an official visit.

"We call on the international community to consider this decision illegal," he said. "This Israeli decision is provocative for Muslims around the world and especially Palestinians."

"Declaration of war"
Sheikh Taysir al-Tamimi, who heads the Palestinian Islamic courts, said the decision "amounts to a declaration of war against the Islamic holy sites in Palestine."

"The practices of the Israeli occupation and its actions against the holy sites violate divine laws and international ones," he added.

The Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron, where the biblical figure Abraham is believed buried, is sacred to both Muslims and Jews and has long been the scene of tensions.

A few hundred hard-line Jewish settlers under heavy Israeli military protection have taken up residence near the site and converted part of the Ibrahimi mosque above it into a synagogue.

The mosque was the site of the infamous massacre of 29 Palestinians in 1994 by Jewish extremist Baruch Goldstein, who was himself later killed by the crowd.

More than 160,000 Palestinians live in Hebron, from which the Israeli military partially withdrew in 1998.

The tomb of the Jewish matriarch Rachel is in an Israeli enclave in the West Bank town of Bethlehem surrounded by eight-meter (24-foot) high concrete walls.
Posted by: Fred || 02/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Israel is not an Arab settlement.
Posted by: newc || 02/23/2010 1:23 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Indonesian police arrest four in anti-terror raid
Indonesian police said Tuesday they had arrested four people after a major raid on a terrorist training camp in a remote region of Aceh province and were pursuing dozens who escaped. Aceh police chief Aditya Warman said some 50 militants were using the camp and "strongly suspected" of being part of regional terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), blamed for multiple attacks across Indonesia.

More than 100 heavily armed police took part in the raid just before midnight Monday in a forested part of Aceh Besar district, about 70 kilometres (40 miles) east of the provincial capital Banda Aceh. The militants were conducting military-style training including the use of firearms. Only three were caught in the raid and the rest escaped into the jungle, the police chief said. A police spokesman later updated the number arrested to four.

Police found rifles, Malaysian military uniforms and terrorist propaganda material including videos of the 2002 bombings on the Indonesian resort island of Bali which killed more than 200 people, mainly Western tourists.

"We received information that there were training activities comprising 50 people from a group suspected to be related to Jemaah Islamiyah," Warman said. "The group keeps moving around to avoid police detection. They have moved over four districts.

"We found books on jihad (holy war), CDs on bombings in Bali and other areas, Malaysian military uniforms. There's a jacket with the word 'Jemaah' ('congregation') on it, among other things."

The police chief said operations were ongoing to track down the remaining suspects. "We've known about them since September but we couldn't find them until now," he said, adding that the group included foreigners who were able to "blend in" with locals.

"We're very careful when dealing with this group so we must coordinate with national police," Warman said. "We will continue to chase them."
Posted by: ryuge || 02/23/2010 07:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Jemaah Islamiyah


Jakarta court tries "Prince of Jihad"
An Indonesian militant has gone on trial accused of helping to finance deadly attacks on luxury hotels in Jakarta last July. Mohammed Jibril Abdurahman, 25, who went by the online moniker "Prince of Jihad", appeared in court as dozens of women in black chanted "God is Great". He faces up to 15 years in jail if found guilty.

The bombings killed seven people and two suicide bombers and ended a four-year hiatus in attacks in Indonesia. Mr Abdurahman is accused of flying to Saudi Arabia to raise money to finance the attacks. Prosecutors allege that the 25-year-old had ties to alleged regional terrorist mastermind Noordin Top.

But he denied the charges and accused the court of making it all up. "I think this case is fabricated. I didn't do anything wrong," he told reporters outside court shortly before his trial began.

Prosecutors allege he was studying in an Islamic boarding school in Malaysia when he first met Mr Noordin, who became his teacher, in 1998. After meeting him again about a year before the bombings, prosecutors say he sent an e-mail to his brother, Ahmad Isrofil Mardhotillah, who was in the Saudi holy city of Mecca, saying: "I have met with N., we talked long in car ... Preacher N needs 100 million..."

The BBC's Karishma Vaswani says it is not clear how much money was raised - if any - and whether any of it actually reached Indonesia. She says the case is being watched closely by security analysts in Indonesia. They think it will provide vital clues about what kind of network Mr Noordin may still have in Indonesia - and crucially, whether the funding for the attacks came from within the country or from overseas. That information could help Indonesian security forces as they continue their fight against terrorism.

Another trial began last week of Amir Abdillah, 34, accused of being the driver for Mr Noordin, who was shot by police in a September raid on a central Java village.
Posted by: ryuge || 02/23/2010 06:54 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Terrorists in drag kill two Thai policemen
Suspected Islamic terrorists militants, some of them dressed in women's clothing, shot dead two policemen Monday in Thailand's troubled Muslim-majority south, police said.

Four terrorists militants riding on two motorcycles -- two wearing Muslim women's dress and two wearing fake army uniforms -- opened fire on the policemen who were guarding a gold shop in Narathiwat province, said police. Both police officers died on the way to hospital.

Plus:

A soldier was injured in a bomb attack as he was checking a fake kilometer marker made by terrorists insurgents. Sgt Naret Mahachai, 31, was checking a suspicious marker on Krongpinang-Yala road when the explosive hidden inside exploded. The sergeant, suffering from broken leg and wounds, was rushed to a hospital nearby.

Initial investigation believed that the terrorists insurgents placed the marker to lure soldiers to inspect it before triggering the explosive. Arriving at the scene of attack, police cordoned off the area and sent bomb squad in to make sure that there was no more explosive.

Sgt Somkid Srija, the team's chief, said that he and his team were patrolling the site which was about 800 meters from a school before they noticed the suspicious marker. Naret was sent in to inspect it.
Posted by: ryuge || 02/23/2010 06:37 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Indon: Guard recalls brush with Marriott bomber
[Straits Times] A GUARD at an Indonesian hotel recalled on Monday a chilling exchange with an Islamic suicide bomber seconds before the extremist detonated his explosives in a room full of businessmen.

JW Marriott employee Dikdik Ahmad Taufik was asked to give testimony at the trial of Amir Abdillah, 34, a suspected member of the terror network blamed for twin suicide attacks on Jakarta hotels which killed seven people in July. He said he saw a young man walking across the lobby towards him wearing a baseball cap low on his head, wheeling a suitcase and nursing a backpack on his chest.

'I was in the hotel lobby, security was very tight with a metal detector,' Mr Dikdik told the South Jakarta District Court. 'In front of the lounge I met a man carrying luggage and a backpack on his chest, he was wearing a brown jacket. I asked him what he wanted and he told me 'I want to deliver these things to my boss'.'

The man was eighteen-year-old suicide bomber Dani Dwi Permana, and Mr Dikdik had questioned him just metres from his target: a meeting of mainly Western businessmen in an alcove off the lobby. Security camera footage of the attack showed an alert Mr Dikdik speak to Permana as he walked unsteadily but directly toward the meeting room, but the Islamist fanatic did not pause to make his response.

A minute or two later the lobby of the upmarket hotel was devastated in a flash of heat and splintered debris as the bomber triggered his charges a short distance away down a narrow corridor. 'I'm sure that the explosion originated from the man's bag,' Mr Dikdik said from the witness stand.

Five people were killed by the bomber in the meeting room where the CastleAsia consultancy was having a regular breakfast get-together, including two Australian diplomats and a well-respected company executive from New Zealand. Seconds later another Islamist blew himself up in a restaurant at the adjacent Ritz-Carlton hotel, killing two Dutch tourists as well as himself.
Posted by: Fred || 02/23/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran to build enrichment sites inside mountains
You mean they haven't already?
Iran said Monday it plans to build two new uranium enrichment facilities deep inside mountains to protect them from attack, a new challenge to Western powers trying to curb Tehran's nuclear program for fear it is aimed at making weapons.

Ali Akbar Salehi, who is also Iran's vice president, said Tehran intends to use its more advanced centrifuges at the new sites, a decision that could add to growing concerns in the West over Tehran's program because the technology would allow Iran to accelerate the pace of its program.

The two plants are among 10 industrial scale uranium enrichment facilities Iran approved the construction of in November, a dramatic expansion of the program in defiance of U.N. demands it halt enrichment.

"Hopefully, we may begin construction of two new enrichment sites in the next Iranian year as ordered by the president," the semiofficial ISNA quoted Salehi as saying Monday. The Iranian calendar year begins March 21.

Salehi said the new enrichment sites will be equal to that of Natanz in terms of production capacity but smaller in geographical size, another indication that more advanced centrifuges will be installed, requiring less space to churn out the same enriched uranium.

More than 8,600 centrifuges have been set up in Natanz, but only about 3,800 are actively enriching uranium, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The facility will eventually house 54,000 centrifuges.
Posted by: ed || 02/23/2010 00:02 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This was reported almost a year ago.
Posted by: newc || 02/23/2010 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > ISRAELI PRESIDENT: ISRAEL MUST THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/23/2010 0:28 Comments || Top||

#3  D *** NG IT, you just know dem "SINK THE TIRPITZ" Commando X-craft subs are gonna have a reeeelllllyyy hard time sneaking into dem wily undergound mountains.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/23/2010 0:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Mountains make most excellent tombs...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 02/23/2010 0:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Mountain? Looks more like a molehill to me.
Posted by: crosspatch || 02/23/2010 0:41 Comments || Top||

#6  54,000 centrifuges - each spinning near 100,000 RPMs...
A little bit of shaking....
Much fun!
Posted by: 3dc || 02/23/2010 1:20 Comments || Top||

#7  Thats ok, I never get tired of watching it.

Film clip.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/23/2010 3:23 Comments || Top||

#8  3dc, we love standing waves!
Posted by: Halliburton Sub-plate Tectonics Division || 02/23/2010 3:31 Comments || Top||

#9  Iran is known for its earthquakes. I wonder what would happen to 50,000 centrifuge containers in a 9.+ earthquake. I'd be a bit hesitant to work in any such facility. Uranium hexafluoride is nasty stuff.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 02/23/2010 12:19 Comments || Top||



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