Breaking NEWS: Osama is bead!

Cammy · May 6, 2011

Good Morning America: Geronimo Raid: Navy SEALs Who Killed Bin Laden

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Cammy · May 6, 2011

Osama bin Laden death: How family scene in compound turned to carnage

Details emerge of what really happened when Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan – according to the survivors, at least

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Osama bin Laden was killed after US Navy Seals raided his compund in Abbottabad. Photograph: Enterprise News & Pictures

Osama bin Laden's daughter cradled the head of her wounded mother in the room where the al-Qaida leader had just been killed.

"I am Saudi," she told Pakistani security officials shortly after US special forces had flown away with the terrorist's bloodied body. "Osama bin Laden is my father."

The 12-year-old had herself been injured by a piece of flying debris in her foot or ankle during the night-time raid on Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, northern Pakistan, but she was comforting her father's fifth wife, Amal Ahmed al-Sadah, 29, who was shot in the calf by commandos as they closed in on Bin Laden.

The woman lay quietly, her head in the girl's lap, though she seemed conscious, the officials told the Guardian. Across the room stood another woman, hands tied behind her back and mouth taped, aged around 30 and possibly Bin Laden's doctor from Yemen.

The scene after Bin Laden's death emerged amid graphic new details about Monday's raid, which now seems to be far more one-sided than US officials previously claimed. On Thursday it emerged that far from there being a sustained "firefight" in the compound, as senior White House officials had said, the Navy Seals drew fire from only one al-Qaida gunman and quickly killed him.

Thereafter their progress to their target was largely unopposed. Graphic pictures also circulated of three dead men covered in blood, two in white salwar kameez and one in a white T-shirt, taken by Pakistani officials shortly after dawn. One appeared to be lying on top of a child's bright green waterpistol.

The soldiers left four dead bodies, survivors bound with plastic ties and women and children injured.

The raid had begun on a moonless night, as highly modified "stealth" helicopters designed to avoid detection flew in secret through Pakistan airspace across the farmlands of the Orash valley towards their target.

On board were special forces soldiers from the Navy Seal Team 6 battle group whom Barack Obama had entrusted with taking on the world's most wanted man face to face. The US president had eschewed a missile strike in favour of this kill-or-capture mission after US intelligence had discovered that the compound 35 miles from Islamabad ringed with 12- to 18-foot high walls.

It was home to a Pakistani called Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, Bin Laden's most trusted courier whose identity had been discovered by the US four years earlier after he was identified by detainees as a protege of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, alleged to be al-Qaida's main architect of the 9/11 attacks.

Kuwaiti lived with his family in the complex's guesthouse, divided from the main house by a high wall. Another family, including Kuwaiti's brother, who was the co-owner of the complex, lived on the first floor of the main house with further women and children.

Bin Laden was thought to be living with his fifth wife and some of his children on the second and third floors behind opaque windows. All in all, at the time of the raid the compound was inhabited by eight or nine children aged from two to 12, three women and at least four men.

Pakistani security officials arriving at the scene after the US raid found a spartan house. Each bedroom not only had an attached bathroom, which is common here, but also its own kitchen, an unusual feature that would have allowed its occupants to live independently in each bedroom.

In a photograph, seen by the Guardian, of one of the bathrooms on the first floor there is a chair with the middle removed, which seemed to have been designed to allow a sick or elderly person to sit on the toilet more easily. Security officials speculated this may have ben the bedroom of Bin Laden, who has suffered for many years with kidney trouble.

Another room on the first floor was used as a classroom, with a whiteboard and numerous pieces of paper featuring Arabic writing, as well as children's textbooks. Neighbours say that none of the children living at the house went to school. The foodstuffs found in the house also suggested a simple diet, consisting of dates, olive oil, walnuts, dried meat and eggs.

As the raid commenced, the US soldiers were divided by their commanders into two groups. Immediately they ran into trouble with one of the helicopters crashing to the ground on landing, but the commandos managed to get out and press on to their targets. The first group storming the smaller guesthouse met the sternest resistance and, it is now clear, the only hostile gunfire of the whole operation.

Kuwaiti opened fire from behind the door of the guesthouse, and the troops returned fire, killing him and his wife, according to reports sourced to a US government official. According to both the New York Times and the Associated Press on Thursday, this was the only incoming fire the commandos received during the entire raid.

The second group poured into the main house before working their way, clearing room by room, up to Bin Laden's quarters. Kuwaiti's brother was killed as he prepared to fire a gun and as the troops moved to ascend the stairs to the second and third floors, they killed a fourth person, thought to be Bin Laden's adult son Hamza as he "lunged" towards them, according to the New York Times report. One of the photographs released of a young unidentified man with a light beard lying in a pool of dark blood bears a resemblance to Bin Laden.

While ascending to Bin Laden's quarters, the Seals were confronted with a family scene that soon turned to carnage. The terrorist's daughter was immediately injured by a piece of shrapnel or flying debris to her ankle or foot, according to Pakistan intelligence, suggesting the commandos may have thrown in a grenade before entering the room.

Other reports had the soldiers shooting through the door, which could have sent material flying round the room to the same effect. Either way, they were proceeding with great force. Once inside the room Bin Laden's wife rushed towards one of the commandos as he entered the room and was shot in the calf.

Then they finally came to Bin Laden himself, who the White House eventually admitted was "unarmed", after initially saying he opened fire. Officials have since said that he in fact had two Russian made firearms within reach – an AK-47 assault rifle, most likely his personal short-barrelled version which Bin Laden supposedly seized from a Soviet general in 1987. The second weapon was a Makarov pistol.

Leon Panetta, the CIA director who was following the raid in real time from America, said on Tuesday that Bin Laden made "some threatening moves that … represented a clear threat to our guys. And that's the reason they fired."

Whatever he did, the Seal unit opened fire and Bin Laden was hit once in the chest and once in the head. There were unconfirmed reports that Bin Laden was shot through the left eye and it is likely the troops would have used low velocity ammunition, which does not pass through bodies. Such rounds prevent ricochets but cause messy wounds. A White House official described the image on Bin Laden as "gruesome" and said that it would not be released.

With the clock ticking and concerns that the Pakistani military may be scrambling aircraft to intercept the top-secret raid, the US troops now had to move quickly. A "treasure trove" of computers, CDs, data sticks, DVDs and paperwork was quickly pulled together to provide intelligence. They lugged out about 100 thumb drives, DVDs and computer disks, along with 10 computer hard drives and five computers to be pored over by computer forensic experts and intelligence officers for evidence of future plots and clues to the shape of the organisation Bin Laden was leaving behind.

They took survivors to a safe part of the compound so they weren't hurt when the wrecked helicopter was blown up. They picked up the bloodied bodies of Bin Laden and his son and flew into the night, back to Afghanistan. They were out of sight by the time the first Pakistani officials arrived shortly afterwards to find four dead bodies and the bound survivors in reportedly hysterical mood. Several were injured, though only two seriously.

The police were first to arrive on the scene after the Americans left, followed by the military and then the ISI intelligence agency. There were communication problems at first as none of the Pakistanis spoke Arabic.

Back at the US military base in Afghanistan, comparison with pictures gave US intelligence officers a 95% certainty they had got Bin Laden, and a DNA check against family members gave a "virtually 100% DNA match", White House officials said.

By 11am on Monday, Bin Laden's body had been wrapped in a white sheet, placed in a weighted bag, and eased off a flat board from the deck of the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier into the waves of the North Arabian Sea.

The US decided not to release images of Bin Laden's body for fear of inciting additional violence or its use as a propaganda tool. But President Barack Obama put it simply in a TV interview broadcast on Thursday: "The fact of the matter is you will not see Bin Laden walking on this earth again."

Cammy · May 6, 2011

Osama bin Laden dead: hi-tech secret may end up in China

There are growing fears that top-secret stealth technology taken from the helicopter that crashed during the raid on the home of Osama bin Laden could be smuggled into China and cause a diplomatic row.

Part of the damaged helicopter is seen lying in the compound Photo: AFP

By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent 10:15PM BST 05 May 2011

It has become clear that US special forces used a previously unseen stealth helicopter for the mission in order to evade Pakistani radar or being heard on the final approach to the home of the al-Qaeda terrorist.

The American troops used thermite grenades to destroy the helicopter’s main body but its rear section was left intact and taken away by the Pakistani military soon after the night raid on Monday. It is feared that if Islamabad refuses a request from Washington for the return of the tail section that the issue could turn into a diplomatic rift.

Relations are already fraught after the Seal Team Six raid entered Pakistan airspace apparently without permission and after the government was accused in some quarters of “harbouring” bin Laden.

It is believed that US Special Operations Command decided to give the operation the greatest chance of surprise by using the untested helicopters, probably modified Blackhawks.

Neighbours have said they did not hear the helicopters until they were directly overhead at 1am.

It is likely that the operation was launched from a special forces base inside the Afghanistan border. Their destination, Abbottabad, would have been at the limit of their range, although Blackhawks can be refuelled mid-flight.

One of the aircraft crashed during the raid after it is thought the engines developed a problem. Experts believe that the shape and design of the aircraft is similar to that of the RAH 66 Comanche helicopter, a project that was scrapped after $7 billion was spent on eight prototypes.

However, it now appears that the Americans might have adapted some of the technology and bolted it on to a Blackhawk. The modified tail boom would have reduced noise and appears to be covered in a hi-tech material used on stealth fighters.

Peter Felstead, the editor of Jane’s Defence Weekly, said analysts had carefully studied the pictures and concluded that it was a “stealth helicopter that we have not seen before”.

“The Americans will be extremely keen to get the wreckage back but there will also be real concerns about the technology finding its way to China,” he said. “This kind of technology would be extremely useful to them at this point.”

Pakistan has a well-established military relationship with China, working jointly on the JF17 Thunder fighter project. The Chinese have exclusive access to a naval port.

The People’s Liberation Army is in the early stages of developing an attack helicopter that would benefit significantly from stealth technology.

The Chinese are experts at reverse-engineering, using Western technology to develop its own armoured vehicles, warships and aircraft. It recently released photographs of an aircraft that closely resembled the US Air Force’s highly advanced F22 Raptor.

A spokesman for the American military said: “No operational details have been released about units or equipment.”

Cammy · May 6, 2011

Osama bin Laden: the bloodied compound in Abbottabad where al-Qaeda leader lived

</td></tr></tbody></table>Osama bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world was living in a secure compound in the town of Abbottabad, 60 miles north of the capital Islamabad Picture: EPA

Cammy · May 7, 2011

Good Morning America: Osama Bin Laden Dead: Graphic Footage Inside Bin Laden's Compound, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B62Q6t_xAng

Cammy · May 13, 2011

Bin Laden’s Death Won’t End Toll on Taxpayers

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Even in death, Osama bin Laden will be taking revenge on American taxpayers for years to come.

The U.S. government spent $2 trillion combating bin Laden over the past decade, more than 20 percent of the nation’s $9.68 trillion public debt. That money paid for wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as additional military, intelligence and homeland security spending above pre-Sept. 11 trends, according to a Bloomberg analysis.

This year alone, taxpayers are spending more than $45 billion in interest on the money borrowed to battle al-Qaeda, the analysis shows.

The financial bleeding won’t stop with bin Laden’s demise. One of every four dollars in red ink the U.S. expects to incur in the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 will result from $285 billion in annual spending triggered by the terrorist scion of a wealthy Saudi family.

Without bin Laden, “we would have accumulated less debt, be spending less on interest and we would be on a lower spending path going forward,” said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a research organization in Washington.

Along with the dollars-and-cents toll, bin Laden has left behind a less quantifiable imprint on American life. Thousands of families have suffered grievous loss from the Sept. 11 attacks and the two wars. U.S. government buildings in Washington and around the world have grown to resemble fortified bunkers. And the line between government power and individual liberty was redrawn as agencies gained new powers to combat a novel threat.

Costs ‘Ad Infinitum’

The complete figure may be higher than the Bloomberg analysis. Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody’s Analytics Inc., said bin Laden cost the U.S. government and businesses $2.5 trillion, or $250 billion each year. “I think a prudent planner would anticipate these costs continuing ad infinitum into the future,” he said in an e-mail.

Indeed, the meter didn’t stop running May 2 when bin Laden’s corpse slipped into the Arabian Sea. Next year alone, the U.S. plans to spend an additional $118 billion on military operations inAfghanistan and Iraq.

Additional fiscal 2012 spending that can be attributed to bin Laden includes an extra $14 billion for homeland security, about $125 billion for the Pentagon excluding the two wars, expanded intelligence spending and increased aid to Pakistan, according to the Bloomberg analysis.

“There are a lot of legacy costs,” said Jon Meacham, editor of “Beyond Bin Laden,” an instant book from Random House.

Pentagon Budget

As the U.S. celebrates the demise of the number-one figure on the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists” list, the future spending that can be attributed to bin Laden far exceeds direct war costs. Gordon Adams, who oversaw national security budgeting at the Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton administration, said roughly $125 billion of the Pentagon’s $553 billion fiscal 2012 budget request represents unnecessary spending justified by claims of war-time need.

“That’s a tax which would not have happened without Osama bin Laden,” Adams, a professor at American University’s School of International Service, said in a telephone interview.

The bin Laden tax has been levied every year for the past decade. Pentagon spending -- excluding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- between fiscal 2002 and today was $742 billion higher than the Congressional Budget Office’s January 2001 baseline forecast.

Amid a wartime atmosphere, military spending requests faced less scrutiny both within the Pentagon and in Congress, Adams said. Programs launched with modest initial funding often live on, their costs ballooning with the years.

Nigeria Surveillance

A Pentagon counterterrorism training and equipment initiative known as the Section 1206 program, which has funneled aid to 53 countries, swelled from $100 million in fiscal 2006 to $500 million in the Obama administration’s request for fiscal year 2012, which starts Oct. 1.

Under the program, Nigeria got maritime surveillance gear to monitor traffic in the Gulf of Guinea and Lebanon obtained parts for UH-1H helicopters, which it used to quash an uprising in the Nahr al-Barid refugee camp. “It’s used for every purpose you can imagine,” Adams said.

The U.S. added 92,000 soldiers to its ground forces in the decade following the Sept. 11 attacks. Each 10,000 people added to the military’s ranks means an extra $1 billion in annual spending, according to Adams. So the ground force expansion inspired by bin Laden will impose an additional $9 billion annually, he said.

Intelligence Tripled

The military wasn’t alone in securing expanded financial resources because of bin Laden. The budget for U.S. intelligence agencies tripled over the past 12 years, representing an average annual increase of 9.6 percent.

While it is difficult to determine how much of the incremental increase in can be directly linked to bin Laden, the amount is undoubtedly sizable. In October 2010, the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, said the intelligence budget for fiscal 2009 was $80.1 billion, including $27 billion for military intelligence. Michael O’Hanlon, a Brookings Institution defense expert, estimated that $25 billion to $30 billion of annual intelligence spending can be laid at bin Laden’s feet.

“A large portion of that cost growth is from 9/11,” said O’Hanlon, a former national security analyst with the Congressional Budget Office.

Homeland Security

The government’s finances also will groan beneath the weight of the Department of Homeland Security, the 216,000- employee bureaucracy created to protect Americans from additional terrorist attacks. Over the past nine years, the department spent about $123 billion more than if the 22 component agencies’ pre-Sept. 11 spending trends had continued, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

That is an extra $14 billion annually U.S. taxpayers can attribute to bin Laden -- or 24 percent of the $57 billion the department is seeking for the 2012 fiscal year.

Some enduring costs will amount to no more than inconvenience. Less than six months before the Sept. 11 attacks, a House committee held a hearing to consider reopening Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House. The street closure, instituted as a temporary measure after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, was made permanent after al-Qaeda’s attacks, andWashington drivers have adjusted.

Airport Lines

Likewise, though travelers fume in airport security lines while stripping off shoes and belts and fumbling with three- ounce cosmetics containers, the economic consequences are negligible, according to Nariman Behravesh, chief economist of IHS Insight, an economic and financial analysis and forecasting company. “This is a huge, diversified economy which can absorb this stuff without too much pain,” he said.

Bin Laden’s imprint on American society, however, extends beyond finances. Through May 2, 11,191 members of the U.S. military have been wounded in the war in Afghanistan, including 35 percent so severely as to preclude their return to combat.

In coming years, those who saw loved ones injured or killed in the Sept. 11 attacks, or in the wars that followed, will still bear daily pain.

Public buildings, which before the rise of al-Qaeda were designed as artistic statements, will continue to resemble bunkers. And small erosions of personal liberty, conceded in the interests of security, may yet deepen.

Duct Tape

Not since the early days of the Cold War, when the Soviet Union threatened, has an enemy so bedeviled Americans and their leaders. Where once children prepared for nuclear war with “duck and cover” drills, Americans after Sept. 11 stockpiled duct tape and canned food.

The post-Sept. 11 drive for security changed the look of the U.S. capital, transforming it into a garrison city bristling with metal barriers, stone bollards and closed-circuit cameras. To enter even the most unimportant office building, people grew accustomed to handing over photo identification and signing their names.

If these requirements seemed longer on ritual than reward, they nonetheless spread. Likewise, the government expanded its powers in response to the threat conjured by bin Laden.

In 2010, federal officials filed 1,579 requests with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court -- or six requests each working day and 50 percent more than in 2001 -- for electronic surveillance or physical searches.

The 11-judge federal court, established to adjudicate surveillance requests regarding suspected foreign agents, approved every one of the government’s requests, according to an April 29 Justice Department report to Congress.

‘Pre-Emptive’ Surveillance

Julian Sanchez, a research analyst at the Cato Institute, a libertarian-oriented policy center in Washington, said the proliferation of wiretap requests represented a break with practices in place before the Sept. 11 attacks. “We’ve seen a shift from the traditional American model of surveillance of particular individuals on the basis of individualized suspicion to a broader pre-emptive model,” he said.

Separately, the FBI issued so-called national security letters, which require businesses to provide federal investigators with an individual’s records, including telecommunications and financial data.

Investigators last year sought the records of 14,212 Americans, more than in the previous two years combined. Civil liberties advocates see the national security letters, which don’t require a judge’s approval, as a dangerously broad power. “We would be in pretty serious trouble if there were 14,000 terrorists in the United States,” said Sanchez.

For all bin Laden’s financial and human impact, however, the al-Qaeda leader failed in his ultimate goal of humbling the world’s lone superpower. Today’s $15 trillion U.S. economy, for example, is 18 percent larger than in 2001, after adjusting for inflation.

Economy Survives

Indeed, said Meacham, the genius of the American experiment lies in the country’s ability to withstand sharp blows without fracturing. He noted that President Barack Obama, who as a candidate criticized the national security policies of his predecessor, George W. Bush, largely embraced them once he took office.

That development, akin to President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s acceptance of the New Deal in the 1950s, has helped steady the country amid turbulent times. “We’re on this new road that’s been created. We’ll veer a little left. We’ll veer a little right,” Meacham said. “But the road has been laid out.”

To contact the reporter on this story: David J. Lynch in Washington at [email protected]

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Mark Silva at [email protected]

Cammy · May 13, 2011

How bin Laden emailed without being detected by US

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This image taken from video released by Qatar's Al-Jazeera televison broadcast on Friday, Oct. 5, 2001, is said to show Osama bin Laden. Despite having no Internet access in his hideout, Osama bin Laden was a prolific email writer who built a painstaking system that kept him one step ahead of the U.S. government’s best eavesdroppers.

By MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN, Associated Press – 2 hrs 3 mins ago

WASHINGTON – Using intermediaries and inexpensive computer disks, Osama bin Laden managed to send emails while in hiding, without leaving a digital fingerprint for U.S. eavesdroppers to find.

His system was painstaking and slow, but it worked, and it allowed him to become a prolific email writer despite not having Internet or phone lines running to his compound.

His methods, described in new detail to The Associated Press by a counterterrorism official and a second person briefed on the U.S. investigation, frustrated Western efforts to trace him through cyberspace. The people spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive intelligence analysis.

Bin Laden's system was built on discipline and trust. But it also left behind an extensive archive of email exchanges for the U.S. to scour. The trove of electronic records pulled out of his compound after he was killed last week is revealing thousands of messages and potentially hundreds of email addresses, the AP has learned.

Holed up in his walled compound in northeast Pakistan with no phone or Internet capabilities, bin Laden would type a message on his computer without an Internet connection, then save it using a thumb-sized flash drive. He then passed the flash drive to a trusted courier, who would head for a distant Internet cafe.

At that location, the courier would plug the memory drive into a computer, copy bin Laden's message into an email and send it. Reversing the process, the courier would copy any incoming email to the flash drive and return to the compound, where bin Laden would read his messages offline.

It was a slow, toilsome process. And it was so meticulous that even veteran intelligence officials have marveled at bin Laden's ability to maintain it for so long. The U.S. always suspected bin Laden was communicating through couriers but did not anticipate the breadth of his communications as revealed by the materials he left behind.

Navy SEALs hauled away roughly 100 flash memory drives after they killed bin Laden, and officials said they appear to archive the back-and-forth communication between bin Laden and his associates around the world.

Al-Qaida operatives are known to change email addresses, so it's unclear how many are still active since bin Laden's death. But the long list of electronic addresses and phone numbers in the emails is expected to touch off a flurry of national security letters and subpoenas to Internet service providers. The Justice Department is already coming off a year in which it significantly increased the number of national security letters, which allow the FBI to quickly demand information from companies and others without asking a judge to formally issue a subpoena.

Officials gave no indication that bin Laden was communicating with anyone inside the U.S., but terrorists have historically used U.S.-based Internet providers or free Internet-based email services.

The cache of electronic documents is so enormous that the government has enlisted Arabic speakers from around the intelligence community to pore over it. Officials have said the records revealed no new terror plot but showed bin Laden remained involved in al-Qaida's operations long after the U.S. had assumed he had passed control to his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri.

The files seized from bin Laden's compound not only have the potential to help the U.S. find other al-Qaida figures, they may also force terrorists to change their routines. That could make them more vulnerable to making mistakes and being discovered.

Cammy · May 18, 2011

May 18, 2011

Egyptian named new Al-Qaeda leader

Saif al-Adel, a top Al-Qaeda strategist and senior military leader, has been tapped as 'caretaker' chief of the group. --PHOTO: REUTERS

WASHINGTON - AL-QAEDA has chosen a former Egyptian Special Forces officer as interim leader of the violent extremist group in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death earlier this month, CNN reported on Tuesday.

Saif al-Adel, a top Al-Qaeda strategist and senior military leader, has been tapped as 'caretaker' chief of the group, CNN reported, citing former Libyan militant Noman Benotman, who has renounced Al-Qaeda's ideology.

Pakistan's The News newspaper corroborated the claim, citing unnamed sources in an article datelined Rawalpindi, a city home to the military headquarters of the Pakistani Armed Forces near the capital Islamabad.

The decision to chose Adel, also known as Muhamad Ibrahim Makkawi, came as militants grew increasingly restive over the lack of a formal successor to Osama, who was killed in a dramatic US commando raid deep in Pakistan on May 2, Benotman told CNN.

Osama's long-time deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, another Egyptian, is considered to be his presumed successor.

Mr Benotman said the appointment of Adel on a temporary basis may be a way for the group to gauge reaction to having someone outside the Muslim holy region of the Arabian Peninsula at the helm. -- AFP

ridzy · Sep 22, 2011

A senior U.S. official tells CNN that Osama bin Laden was killed by the U.S. forces in a mansion outside the Pakistani capital of Islamabad along with other family members.
Congressional and administration sources say U.S. officials have the body of bin Laden. Further details around his death were not immediately available.U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to address the nation shortly.

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