Despite calls to drop the issue, because if it were proven -- think how really dumb we'd feel as a nation real estate mogul and potential 2012 presidential candidate Donald Trump has reiterated his doubt about President Barack Obamas citizenship, lamenting that the media have helped turned the birther term into a negative word. No one can slander and paint an imposter the One Mumpsimus Maximus.
I can guarantee you, my hospital has all the information, how much my parents paid for that unfortunate day when I was born into this world, this rather crazy world. But the fact is, nobody has any information. And his people in the United States dont even know which hospital. His relatives dont even know which hospital he was born in, Trump told CNNs Candy Crowley in an interview aired Sunday on State of the Union.
So this its a very strange situation, thats all I can tell you, he continued. And you know, its a very sad thing, because the people the birthers, they got labeled and they got labeled so negatively and even the word birther is a negative word. And I always tell people, I was a very good student, I went to the best college, I went to great schools, Im I have very high aptitude, because if you come out and say and even question, the press goes wild. They get angry at the question. And the fact is, if he wasnt born in this country, he shouldnt be the president of the United States.
Why doesnt he show his birth certificate? Trump asked. Why has he spent over $2 million in legal feeyou s to keep this quiet and keep this silent? Well, Donald, rename birther to something like "Failed to pass a background investigation and vetting process"
Last week, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a rising GOP star, urged Trump to stop his questions about Obamas citizenship. A recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed Trump tied for second among Republican voters choice for president.
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[Tolo News] At least four Afghan soldiers and 3 civilians were maimed in a suicide kaboom in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, local officials said.
The incident happened in the east of Kabul city at 04:00 pm local time. A jacket wallah targeted an Afghan National Army convoy, 4 Afghan National Army and three civilians were maimed, Qadam Shah Shahim, chief of 111 Afghan National Army division in Kabul told TOLOnews.
No groups including the Taliban grabbed credit for the attack.
At yet it happened. Somehow the Taliban seem the most likely culprits -- they're so good at making friends and influencing people.
The Afghan National Army has more than 154,000 troops and it will increase to more than 200,000 by the end of 2011.
Sometime after which the Afghan army will end up smaller, as the volunteers discover what hard work soldiering is.
Afghan forces are to take over security responsibilities of seven areas in July this year.
The attack comes 8 days after four suicide bombers attacked on Camp Phoenix, a NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... base in Kabul.
One Afghan civilian was killed in the attack, but no foreign troops and Afghan cops were hurt.
Civilians are often the main victims of suicide attacks in Afghanistan.
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[Tolo News] Police Chief of Gosfandi district of Sar-e-Pul has been killed in a Taliban attack, provincial officials said on Saturday.
The incident happened yesterday in the district while Mr Daud Esaqzai was out on patrol and Taliban shot him dead, Sayed Anwar Rahmati , Governor of Sar-e-Pul told TOLOnews.
One of his bodyguards was maimed in the attack, he added.
The Taliban have grabbed credit for the attack.
Sar-e-Pul has been a relatively peaceful province in the north of Afghanistan but it has recently witnessed jihad boy attacks in some villages.
Afghan and foreign forces have launched operations in different parts of the country to wipe out cut-throats and prepare the ground for a smooth transition to Afghan lead.
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Yup, "smooth transition" here we come!
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[Tolo News] A Deputy of Taliban's Shadow governor and 13 others were killed in an Isaf Arclight airstrike in Kapisa province in central Afghanistan on Thursday, Provincial officials said on Friday.
Well done!
The incident happened on Thursday in Nijrab district of Kapisa as Isaf forces targeted Mohammad Zahir Taliban's Shadow governor and thirteen others, District Police Chief, Atta Mohammad Nazari said.
Isaf forces have not yet commented about the attack.
Insecurity has worried the people of Kapisa province as bully boyz have become active in some villages of the province.
Previously dozens of Taliban capos and gunnies have been killed in foreign forces' air strikes in the country.
Recently foreign and Afghan forces have launched military operations in Afghanistan to wipe out the thugs.
There are around 152,000 foreign troops in the country fighting turbans.
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ISAF = International Security Assistance Force
hadn't heard that acronym in a while.
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[Ennahar] A new march of opponents, the ninth since February at the invitation of one faction of the National Coordination for Change and Democracy in Algeria (CNDC), was prevented by police Saturday in Algiers according to the press.
A few dozen demonstrators gathered in Place du 1er Mai in the center of the capital, tried to march to the Place des Martyrs, a distance of nearly three miles, but were blocked by police.
Over a hundred coppers were deployed on the Place du 1er mai and surrounding streets. The demonstrators chanted "Djazaïr horra Democratia" (Algeria free and democratic) and carried placards on which were written: "system go out" or "for the fall of the regime."
Among them, the president of the Algerian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LADDH), Ali Yahia Abdenour, and leaders of the Rally for Culture and Democracy (RCD secular opposition).
This wing of the CNDC, led by the RCD, has followed its motto of event "every Saturday" for a change of political system while the second wing emerging from a split within the movement, born in January in the wake riots against high prices, refuses to protest in the street.
Since the riots, protests and social policies have proliferated in Algeria. During this wave of protest, about thirty people tried to set themselves on fire, five of whom died from their injuries, according to the Algerian press.
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[Ennahar] Thousands of protesters turned their anger on the army on Saturday demanding that Egypt's ruling military council hand power to civilians and pressing for former President Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... to be put on trial.
The army, which has ruled Egypt since Mubarak was forced out of office on February 11, has become a growing target for a hardcore of protesters who say the generals are colluding with remnants of Mubarak's network and thwarting calls for a deeper purge.
"The military council is part and parcel of the corrupt regime. It is made up of heads of the army that have benefited from Mubarak and his 30 years of robbing the Egyptian people," said Abdullah Ahmed, 45, a protester in Cairo's Tahrir Square.
The army dismisses such charges and says it is guarding against any attempt by former officials to undermine reforms.
Protester ire was fueled on Saturday after the army tried to clear demonstrators from Tahrir during curfew hours from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. Troops and police used tasers and batons. Sounds of gunshots rang out across the square overnight.
Medical sources said two men died out of 15 maimed by gunshots. The army said it only fired blanks and its operation caused no deaths. State television said one person was killed and 71 were maimed in acts of rioting, without giving details.
It was not clear if there were any other armed people in the square when the shots were fired.
Hundreds of thousands of Egyptians had packed into Tahrir on Friday in the biggest protests since February 18, when millions turned out across Egypt to celebrate Mubarak's downfall.
CHANTS AGAINST ARMY COUNCIL
The army met opposition when it tried to rid the square of a few thousand hardy protesters who stayed late into Friday night.
"Thank God, we resisted them (the army), and we are still here," said one protester in Tahrir, which was the epicenter of demonstrations that pushed Mubarak out on February 11.
Hundreds were still in Tahrir by early on Saturday morning. Those numbers rose to several thousand later in the day. "Why is the army beating us? Why is the army firing at us?" protesters chanted overnight when the army moved in, a witness reported.
Some protesters want the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to hand power to a civilian council and have called for the resignation of Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, who heads the army council. He has stayed on as defense minister after serving for two decades in that post under Mubarak.
"Either Field Marshal Tantawi puts these people -- Mubarak, Gamal (his son), and the others -- on trial, or he leaves his post and lets someone else do it. The slowness of the process makes people suspicious that the army (leadership) might be implicated," said Ashraf Abdel-Aziz, 36, a shop owner.
In scenes reminiscent of the height of protests against Mubarak, three burned-out army vehicles were left in the square. Some protesters, angry at the army's tactics, hurled rocks at the smoldering hulk of one of the army trucks.
"The army is in a tough position. What happened Friday was a result of the army's mismanagement of how to steer the revolution forward, but not complicity with the old Mubarak regime," said Hasan Nafaa, a political science professor who was active in mobilizing the protest movement.
"The army is trying to make a balance between carrying out reforms, purging the old system and maintaining economic and political stability. The army knows well that many key people from Mubarak's era control the economy and have deep roots in society. It is therefore taking measured steps," Nafaa said.
Many ordinary Egyptians are tired of the protests that have hurt the economy and want an end to the disruption.
COMPLAINTS GROW
The ruling military council said police and soldiers had "confronted acts of rioting and implemented a curfew" without causing any loss of life and blamed disturbances on "elements outside the law in Tahrir," the state news agency reported.
The council also said on its Facebook page it had ordered the detention of Ibrahim Kamel, a senior member in Mubarak's party, for "incitement and thuggery by some of his associates that stirred up the people in Tahrir Square" on Friday.
The council said it would "continue with firmness to seek out remnants of the previous regime and National Democratic Party" involved in such acts in order to maintain security.
The military has enjoyed broad support since it took control, but complaints against its rule have grown.
"We condemn the intentional slowness of the military council in meeting demands of the revolution and call on Egyptians to return to Tahrir Square and stay until Mubarak and his followers are tossed in the slammer and tried," the coalition of youth groups, which drove the initial anti-Mubarak protests, said in a statement.
"We want the army and the system to be purged of all corrupt complicitous officials who want to stop the revolution in its tracks," said Mohamed Noubi, 23, a protester in Tahrir.
Some protesters took barbed wire that had been left unused by the army on Saturday and dragged it across roads leading to the square. As they had done during protests to oust Mubarak, demonstrators started checking IDs of those entering Tahrir.
"We will not leave here again until they take tangible steps to put Mubarak and high officials on trial," said Mohamed Abdul-Karim, 31, a lawyer. He said he was a member of a committee to protect the rights of people injured in protests.
Mubarak and his family are banned from leaving Egypt. The former president, 82, is living in internal exile in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
The military had forcibly dispersed protesters before from Tahrir Square. In that case, the military apologized the next day, saying there had been no order to assault the protesters and called the incident unintentional.
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[Al Jazeera] Egypt's ruling military council has said it would clear protesters from a central Cairo square with "firmness and force".
Speaking at a news conference on Saturday, a senior military officer blamed trouble in Tahrir Square on "elements that backed the counter-revolution", a reference to people loyal to the administration of deposed President Hosni Mubarak. ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011...
"Tahrir Square will be emptied of protesters with firmness and force to ensure life goes back to normal," the council's Major General Adel Emarah said.
Responding to Emarah's remarks, protester Zain Abdel Latif in Tahrir said: "If they use force we will use force. This isn't Libya, where the army can just attack us."
"The military council is part and parcel of the corrupt regime. It is made up of heads of the army that have benefited from Mubarak and his 30 years of robbing the Egyptian people," said Abdullah Ahmed, 45, a protester in Tahrir.
Earlier in the day, hundreds of protesters had retaken the iconic square hours after security forces attempted to disperse them.
In the clash that ensued, at least one person was killed.
In scenes reminiscent of the violent 18-day uprising that ousted longtime President Mubarak in February, protesters and riot police threw rocks at each other, and security forces responded by firing tear gas, witnesses said.
Egypt's health ministry said that one person was killed and 71 injured after those festivities. The military had earlier denied that anyone was hurt or killed in the raid of the square.
Groups of protesters rallying around the southeast corner of the square threw bottles and possibly petrol Molotov cocktails at riot police, Michelle May, a freelance journalist, told Al Jizz.
One of the main roads running east from Tahrir Square towards Talaat Harb Square was virtually empty, and gunfire seemed to have subsided, a witness said.
Army and central security troops withdrew in the morning, leaving the square to protesters who began setting up barricades made of furniture and left-behind barbed wire.
"The number of protesters remaining in the square is swelling, as news [of the festivities] spreads through the city," reported Mike Hanna, Al Jizz's correspondent in Cairo.
Army officers joined protest
Hundreds of soldiers and security troops backed by armoured vehicles stormed into the square at around 3am, firing shots into the air, brandishing tasers and batons, and beating people, witnesses said.
Tens of thousands of protesters had come to the square on Friday in one of the largest demonstrations since Mubarak stepped down on February 11.
The protesters called for the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which nows runs the country, to honour their demands, which include prosecuting a number of former high-ranking regime officials and Mubarak himself.
The protesters had been joined by perhaps as many as 20 military officers, who had been under orders not to participate. Demonstrators stayed in the square past the military curfew, which runs from 2am to 5am, saying they wanted to protect the officers who joined.
When security forces stormed the square, some of the protesting army officers managed to escape, while at least seven officers were tossed in the calaboose, witnesses said.
Loai Nagati, a student, told Al Jizz that military police and central security forces took some protesters and beat them, but that nobody had been shot. Speaking while gunfire echoed in the background, he said that some of the army officers who joined the protests had been tossed in the calaboose by security forces.
Amr Bassiouny, who was standing at the square's south entrance near the old campus of the American University in Cairo, told Al Jizz that hundreds of soldiers backed by eight armoured vehicles entered the square from that direction at around 3am.
The soldiers formed a semi-circle around the south end of the square and advanced towards a tent in the middle where the protesting army officers had been kept. Soldiers could be seen tearing down the tent in an amateur video posted on YouTube.
For 10 or 15 minutes, the protesters and soldiers faced each other, said Sanaa Seif, who had been in the square since 11pm. Protesters chanted "Peaceful, peaceful," and "The people and the army, hand in hand", but the soldiers moved forward again, firing "non-stop" into the air, she said.
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[Ennahar] A buoyant Muammar Qadaffy made his first television appearance for five days on Saturday and his troops engaged rebels in new fighting on the eastern front in Libya's civil war.
While fighting flared up again on the war's only active frontline, a Red Thingy ship brought medical supplies to the besieged western city of Misrata, scene of bitter street battles, where conditions are said to be desperate.
Qadaffy's forces shelled the western outskirts of Ajdabiyah, launch point for rebel attacks toward the Mediterranean oil port of Brega.
A Rooters correspondent heard artillery impacts and machinegun fire for around 30 minutes, coming from the western boundary of the town, the gateway to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi 150 km (90 miles) to the northeast.
Al Jizz television said Qadaffy forces had entered Ajdabiyah.
Qadaffy smiled and pumped his fists in the air as he received an ecstatic welcome at a school in Tripoli, where women ululated and pupils chanted anti-western slogans. One woman cried with emotion as he passed.
Qadaffy, wearing his trademark brown robes and dark glasses, was last seen on television on April 4.
He looked confident and relaxed, confirming the impression among analysts that his administration has emerged from a period of paralysis and is hunkering down for a long campaign.
STALEMATE
Inconclusive see-saw battles have raged along the desert road between Brega and Ajdabiyah for over a week after Qadaffy's military pushed back a rebel advance.
Western generals are increasingly pessimistic that the military stalemate can be broken despite NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... air attacks on Qadaffy's armored forces.
A Red Thingy ship managed to dock in Misrata on Saturday carrying enough medical supplies to treat 300 patients with gunshot wounds.
Misrata, the lone major rebel outpost in the west of Libya, has been under siege by Qadaffy's forces for weeks. Insurgents said on Friday they had repelled an assault on the eastern flank of the city after fierce street battles that killed five people.
Misrata, Libya's third largest city, rose up with other towns against Qadaffy in mid-February after a security crackdown snuffed out most peaceful protests in the west.
Rebels say people in Misrata are crammed five families to a house in the few safe districts to escape weeks of sniper, mortar and rocket fire. There are severe shortages of food, water and medical supplies and hospitals are overflowing.
ARTILLERY ATTACK
The rebels said they intended to take Brega on Saturday and some had penetrated the outskirts.
"God willing, we will take Brega today. We already have people up there and we will try to do it today," said rebel Captain Hakim Muazzib from a petrol station on the desert road between the two towns. There were 10 pick-up trucks waiting in the petrol station, carrying rocket launchers and machineguns.
Abdullah Mutalib, 27, a rebel lying in a hospital bed in Ajdabiyah with a bullet wound in his side, told Rooters: "Some of us got inside Brega to the university, some got to the outskirts. Then we came under rocket fire."
NATO air strikes hit weapons depots belonging to Qadaffy forces near Zintan, south of Tripoli, on Friday, a resident said.
"The depots are situated 15 km (nine miles) southeast of Zintan. We could see buildings on fire in the distance," the resident, called Abdulrahman, said by phone.
An oil tanker carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude that the rebels need to finance their uprising entered the Suez Canal on Saturday after leaving rebel-held east Libya. Traders say it is heading for China with the first cargo the rebels have sold.
Western officials have acknowledged that their air power will not be enough to help the rag-tag rebels overthrow Qadaffy by force and they are now emphasizing a political solution.
NATO air strikes, with the stated aim of protecting civilians against Qadaffy's army under a U.N. mandate, have created rather than broken a stalemate with neither side now strong enough to land a knockout blow.
Alliance officials have expressed frustration that Qadaffy's tactics of sheltering his armor in civilian areas has diluted the impact of supremacy in the skies over Libya.
Analysts predict a long, low-level conflict possibly leading to partition between east and west in the sprawling country.
"The opposition forces are insufficient to break this deadlock and so as things stand, the march on Tripoli is not going to happen," said John Marks, chairman of Britain's Cross Border Information consultancy.
"This standoff looks like it could go on pretty much forever ... for now we have a stalemate so we are looking rather more at a de facto partition."
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NATO Airstrikes repor destroyed 15-25 of Uncle Muammar's tanks earlier - meanwhile, the Libyuhn Army claims to had shot down two Rebel Helicopters.
[Arab News] Government soldiers and opposition fighters battled in the streets of Ajdabiyah on Saturday after the Libyan military used shelling and guerrilla-style tactics to open its most serious push into opposition territory since international Arclight airstrikes began.
At least eight people were killed, a hospital official said.
Recapturing Ajdabiyah would give the Libyan military a staging ground to attack the opposition's main stronghold, Benghazi, about 160 km farther east along the coastal highway. Muammar Qadaffy's forces were approaching Benghazi when they were driven back by the international air campaign launched last month to protect civilians and ground Qadaffy's aircraft.
For the opposition, losing the city would effectively bottle them into a coastal strip of eastern Libya and allow government forces to more tightly squeeze the few pockets of resistance in the rest of the country, including the besieged western port of Misrata, where heavy festivities continued Saturday for a second day.
Fresh Initiatives for Peace Deal
The push into Ajdabiyah was launched even as international envoys opened fresh initiatives for a peace deal. The African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which had fragmented... said it planned to send a team to Libya on Sunday to begin meetings with the government and opposition leaders.
The Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of mustache cursing... announced it would host a conference on April 14 on Libya, which will be attended by UN Secretary-General the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon and the European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton.
Changed Tactics
The battle for Ajdabiya showed how Qadaffy's forces are adapting their strategies to NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... Arclight airstrikes seeking to cripple the Libyan military.
Small and mobile units -- less vulnerable to Arclight airstrikes than tanks and other armor -- first ambushed a rebel convoy probing the lines outside the city. Government gunners then began shelling Ajdabiyah from desert positions and later ferried soldiers into the streets using civilian vehicles in attempts to foil NATO pilots.
A possible NATO Arclight airstrike, kicking up a huge mushroom cloud, temporarily halted the shelling. NATO officials did not immediately confirm the attack.
A helicopter gunship, flying the opposition flag and coming from the direction of Benghazi, passed over the city during the fighting. Separately, NATO warplanes intercepted a MiG-23 fighter jet operated by an air force pilot who had joined the opposition ranks, and forced him to land after he violated a UN-mandated no-fly zone, a NATO official said.
By nightfall, heavy gunfire was heard from apparent block-to-block combat inside the city, which had about 150,000 residents before many decamped for safer areas.
A resident leaving the city, Abdul Fatah, said gunbattles raged along the city's main street. A rebel fighter, Salah Ali, said Qadaffy's forces were "spreading out inside Ajdabiyah" with weapons including heavy machine guns and grenade launchers.
Still fighting in Misrata
In Misrata, opposition and government troops battled for the control of a key roadway linking the port -- a lifeline for opposition fighters and trapped civilians. A doctor said at least eight people had been killed.
The government attacks on Ajdabiya quickly changed the fortunes of rebels who had earlier sent units deeper toward the strategic oil port of Brega, 40 miles (65 kilometers) from Ajdabiya, and captured two soldiers loyal to Qadaffy.
It's unclear whether Qadaffy's troops would make a push of their own into the eastern town of Ajdabiya and risk coming under NATO Arclight airstrikes. But taking control of the town would open the way to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi and the eastern port of Tobruk near the Egyptian border.
Most rebel forces pulled back to Ajdabiya when the shelling began, but later appeared to attempt a counteroffensive with heavy machine guns and rockets. Black smoke rose from parts of the town.
Earlier, rebels had pushed deeper toward Brega, a key prize in the back-and-forth battles with government forces.
Rebels say they took two prisoners after a clash with soldiers near Brega's Bright Star University, outside the government-controlled oil facilities, but it marks a noticeable advance by rebels struggling to push back Qadaffy's forces.
The eastern Libyan port has changed hands more than five times since the uprising against Qadaffy's rule began in February. The port and oil storage facilities are strategic for both sides.
Rebels have regrouped on the front lines after a mass retreat Thursday when NATO Arclight airstrikes accidentally hit a rebel armored column.
In western Libya, the Red Thingy said a relief ship reached the only rebel-held city, Misrata, which was the scene of heavy battles on Friday.
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[Al Jazeera] Libyan rebel forces have beaten off a new assault by government troops on the besieged western city of Misurata, but lost eight of their fighters in fierce street battles.
Mustafa Abdulrahman, a rebel front man, told Rooters by phone that Saturday's fighting was centred on the Nakl al-Theqeel road to Misurata port.
He praised what he called a positive change from NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... , saying its aircraft carried out several air strikes on forces loyal to Muammar Qadaffy, the Libyan leader. Rebels have complained for days that NATO is too slow and imprecise in responding to government attacks.
Abdulrahman said NATO warplanes struck one government position on Tripoli road, a main artery that cuts through to the city centre, two sites on the coastal road and another near the western gate to the Misurata, which lies about 200 kilometres east of the capital, Tripoli.
Canadian Lieutenant General Charles Bouchard, who commands the Libya operation, said NATO air strikes hit armored vehicles firing on civilians near both Misurata and Ajdabiya.
Speaking in Naples, Italy, where the alliance's operational centre is located, Bouchard said on Saturday that NATO jets also struck ammunition stockpiles east of Tripoli that were being used in attacks on Misrata and other population centres.
A NATO official speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... because of regulations told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that warplanes had destroyed 17 tanks and damaged nine more.
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So much for launching a "No Fly Zone". I am sure American special forces are on the ground, too.
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I still think a major ARCLIGHT strike in Tripoli would put an end to the entire mess, once and for all - in 90% of the Muddled East. Of course, the cleanup afterwards would be horrendous. There's only so much of that brown stuff you're allowed to dump into the Med. Could always truck it to the interior, I guess. That volcano in central Libya would be a good destination.
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Of course, the cleanup afterwards would be horrendous.
[The Nation (Nairobi)] An kaboom rocked a polling station in Nigeria during Saturday's twice-delayed parliamentary polls, causing injuries, a day after a kaboom killed 11 people at an electoral office.
Details were unclear about Saturday's kaboom in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, scene of repeated violence in recent months blamed on an Islamist sect, and came as Nigerians shook off fears over Friday's bombing to cast votes.
"There was no death as of now," said emergency management agency front man Yushau Shuaib. "Only injuries and victims taken to hospital ..."
An electoral commission front man confirmed the kaboom in Maiduguri but could not immediately provide details.
A senior police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity said three people had been killed and several others maimed, including a policewoman who had her hand blown off.
The blasts and repeated vote postponements have marred efforts to organise a credible ballot in Nigeria after years of violent and deeply flawed polls. But many voters standing in line at polling stations said they were determined to see change.
Polling stations in many areas had opened at or near the scheduled start time, in stark contrast to the week before, when organisational chaos led officials to pull the plug at around midday.
However, The over-used However... some areas started late, and the election was postponed in Suleija, the area near the capital Abuja hit by Friday's kaboom that killed at least 11 people and maimed 38 in an attack President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... called "heinous".
No one had grabbed credit for the blast.
Despite the violence, there was a strong willingness across the country to cast ballots in the vote, the first of three landmark elections this month.
From the economic capital Lagos to the country's second-largest city of Kano in the north, voters said they turned out because they saw this year's election as an opportunity to break with the past.
"I have voted a few times, but I have never seen as much voter turnout as this time," said Usman Shehu, a 35-year-old banker among thousands seeking to vote at a polling place in Kano.
Jonathan's voting station in his home state of Bayelsa was among those that opened about 90 minutes after the scheduled start time.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] Yemen, angry over Qatar's suggestion that its leader resign, recalled its ambassador to the fellow Arabian Peninsula nation on Saturday as hundreds of thousands of Yemeni protesters rallied for a second straight day to demand the ouster of President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh. ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ...
The deaths of four protesters Friday in the southern city of Taiz formed a rallying cry across the country. In Taiz, where about 400 people were maimed in the earlier protests, about 100,000 people marched Saturday, blaming the local governor, chief of security and leader of the ruling party for the violence.
More than 120 people have been killed since Feb. 11 in protests inspired by popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt.
The official Yemeni news agency Saba said Yemen's ambassador to Qatar was recalled for consultation on the recent statement made by Qatari Prime Minister Sheik Hamad bin Jassem about the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council's offer of mediation between Saleh and the opposition.
The GCC, which includes Qatar, proposed that Saleh hand over power to his deputy in return for immunity from prosecution for him and his family. Bin Jassem, earlier this week, told news hounds that "we hope to reach an agreement that includes the resignation" of Saleh.
Saleh rejected the mediation offer in a speech before tens of thousands of cheering supporters in the capital Friday. Saba said the president thanked the GCC leaders for their efforts to solve the crisis through dialogue.
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Angry demonstrations have erupted in the Yemeni capital Sanaa and in the southern town of Taiz, with hundreds reportedly injured, as people continue to rally against the rule of president President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh. ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, after serving as a lieutenant colonel in the army. He had been part of the conspiracy that bumped off his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, in the usual tiresome military coup, and he has maintained power by keeping Yemen's many tribes fighting with each other, rather than uniting to string him up. ...
Riot police with with batons were out in force, using tear gas and live fire against protesters in Sanaa, Al Jizz's special correspondent there reported.
"There have been at least 200 injured according to one medical source, and around 15 of those injuries are from live ammunition," she said.
"There were more than three hours of the constant sound of tear gas being fired, and live ammunition being fired. I could also see that there were snipers positioned on rooftops and they were firing down at the crowd."
Our correspondent said the streets were littered with rocks and gas canisters, as police confrontations with tens of thousands of anti-government protestors continued in the capital.
In Taiz, the other main protest area, security police also used live ammunition and tear gas against some of the 100,000 people who marched there on Saturday.
"We have reports [in Taiz] of over 500 people injured, 40 of those from live ammunition and at least five people are at death's door," our correspondent said.
She reported a "very heavy handed approach by the authorities" and an upsurge in violence in towns across Yemen.
"The police are becoming increasingly intolerant of protesters. It seems [president] Ali Abdullah Saleh is once again really trying to show his force."
Envoy recalled
On Friday, four demonstrators were killed when security forces opened fired and shot tear gas at crowds in Taiz the day before.
More than two dozen Yemenis were maimed by gunfire during Friday's opposition protests in Taiz [Rooters]
Demonstrators in Taiz blame the local governor, the chief of security and leader of the ruling party for the violence which left about 400 people injured in the earlier protests.
The fresh protests came as Yemen recalled its envoy from Qatar over a dispute on a Gulf Arab plan for Saleh to step down.
Saba, the official Yemeni news agency, on Saturday said the ambassador was recalled for consultation on the recent statement made by Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem about the six-nation Gulf Co-operation Council's (GCC) offer of mediation between Saleh and the opposition.
The GCC proposed that Saleh hand over power to his deputy in return for immunity from prosecution for him and his family.
Saleh rejected the offer in a speech before tens of thousands of cheering supporters in the capital Sanaa on Friday.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators also gathered on Friday to call for Saleh's immediate ouster.
Rallying cry
The death of the demonstrators in Taiz on Friday caused a rallying cry across the country, and saw protests continue for a second straight day.
Activist Ghazi al-Samei said protesters were in the yard in front of the governor's office in Taiz and had been there since Friday.
The demonstrators, joined by several members of parliament, are demanding the governor's removal and trial.
Abdel-Malek al-Youssefi, another activist, said tanks were at the city's outskirts to prevent people from other towns taking part in the rally and that many supporters of the ruling Congress Party changed their allegiances and joined the ranks of the opposition, the AP said.
Saturday also saw thousands of anti-government protesters take to the streets of other major cities, including Aden, Ibb, al-Hudaydah and Hadramawt, in support of the Taiz protesters.
"More people getting very angry; they are seeing what is happening in Taiz and in other cities as people go out on the streets and demonstrate and really step up the street protests, they are watching that and they are copying that," our correspondent said.
Protesters have been calling since January for the departure of Saleh, who has been in power since 1978.
Calls for departure
Saleh initially accepted an offer by Qatar, Soddy Arabia and other Gulf Arab states trying to broker an end to bloody protests and hold talks with the opposition.
But he later rejected the plan for his exit in a speech broadcast on state television on Friday.
"We were born free, and we have free will, and they have to respect our wishes. We reject any coup against democracy, the constitution and our freedom," he told supporters in Sanaa on Friday.
Our correspondent in Sanaa said: "Saleh addressed his supporters to make a total rejection of the offer put forward by the Gulf Co-operation Council.
"He singled out Qatar and Al Jizz and said, 'We don't have to follow their agenda'."
Al Jizz's correspondent was stopped and searched near the ongoing protests in the capital on Saturday. She was briefly jugged for 10 minutes, and then allowed to leave.
"Lots of men holding guns and lots of other people just wearing civilian clothes came towards me," she said of the incident.
"They took my phone; they started shouting saying that I was a spy, and that I was filming ... the soldiers told me that I was not allowed to film. They took things off me; they searched me; they held the gun to my stomach. It was a very threatening environment."
More than 120 people have been killed since Yemen's protests calling for an end to Saleh's rule began on February 11, inspired by popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt which toppled long-serving leaders.
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ION NEWS KERALA > US, FRANCE, MIDDLE EAST [Saudi Royals] CONCERNED OVER YEMEN BECOMING [major = strategic] AL-QAEDA BASE: WIKILEAKS. Saudis claim that Yemen is becoming super-infested wid Al-Qaeda baddies.
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HURRIYET NEWS > WIKILEAKS: ISRAEL RULED OUT IRAN STRIKE IN 2005. Milstrike deemed no longer effective due to Iran learning to decentralize + disperse its Nuc Assets after Israel's raid on Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981.
[Al Jazeera] Army bomb-experts in Northern Ireland have defused a 225-kilogramme van bomb near the Irish border.
The bomb, hidden underneath a motorway bridge near the main Dublin-Belfast road, was rendered inactive on Saturday following an 18-hour operation.
Police said that the bomb had been set by dissident Republicans to cause "huge devastation" in the nearby town of Newry ahead of Northern Ireland's election campaign.
They said that it had likely been abandoned short of its target and before it could be detonated.
Two warning calls were made to police about the bomb on Friday.
"In this case, this bomb may have been on its way to the centre of the town," David McKittrick, Ireland correspondent for the UK's Independent newspaper, told Al Jizz.
"The security forces were successful in stopping that happneing, but at the same time they weren't successful in preventing the making of the bomb and there were hold-ups, once the bomb was discovered, in clearling the area."
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bomb, but police said a phone call to warn about the bomb used a code word previously used by dissident Republicans.
Impatient motorists
Police shut the road following the discovery of the bomb, but impatient motorists unwilling to take a diversion moved the traffic cones and "road closed" signs.
BBC Northern Ireland footage showed dozens of cars driving directly past the van before police reinforced the barriers.
The bomb was double the size of those used in a number of bombings last year by Irish Republican Army (IRA) dissidents, none of which caused serious injuries.
Recent weeks have seen a surge in activity by IRA dissident groups opposed to the 1998 peace agreement which largely ended three decades of violence that killed more than 3,600 people.
A week ago Ronan Kerr, a 25-year-old police constable, was killed when a bomb went kaboom! under his car in Omagh, an attack police suspect was organised by IRA dissidents to scare Catholics from joining the north's police force.
The killing prompted a public outcry in Ireland.
Detectives said they had jugged a 33-year-old near Omagh on Friday night in the third arrest connected with the murder.
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[Arab News] Israeli aircraft pounded targets in Gazoo on Saturday and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,Orcs and similar vermin fired back with missiles in an escalation of violence after two years of relative calm.
At least four Hamas fighters were reported killed in Saturday's Israeli bombardment. In all, 18 Gazooks have been killed and more than 65 maimed in Israeli strikes since Hamas attacked an Israeli school bus with an anti-tank rocket Thursday. The bus attack seriously maimed a 16-year-old boy and injured the driver.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that the bus attack crossed a red line and that Israel would strike back hard -- in an apparent attempt to restore the deterrence that had been created by the Gazoo war in the winter of 200-2009.
Hamas leaders, meanwhile, said Saturday they wouldn't hold back if Israeli strikes continue. "Hamas will not stand idle in front of this escalation," Hamas front manSami Abu Zuhri ...a senior front man for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gazoo. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah paramilitary forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... told a news conference. "We have exercised a limited response so far, but we warn the occupation against continuing with their crimes."
On Saturday, GazooOrcs and similar vermin fired 17 longer-range Grad missiles and seven mortar shells into Israel in the biggest single-day attack since the Gazoo war, Israeli police said.
Several missiles fell in open land near the southern Israeli cities of Ashkelon and Beersheba, while seven were intercepted by Israel's new missile shield, Iron Dome. A mortar shell hit a local government building in a small community, causing some damage. There were no reports of injuries.
Iron Dome, a new missile shield first activated earlier this week, is the first system worldwide to knock down missiles at such altitude and trajectory.
In Gazoo, meanwhile, an Israeli Arclight airstrike struck a car near Rafah in southern Gazoo early Saturday, killing three Hamas bad boys. Hamas said one of its top commanders, 29-year-old Tayser Abu Snima, and two of his assistants were killed. The Israeli military said Abu Snima had been involved in attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians.
Later, Hamas said a tank shell killed another bad boy near the Jabalya neighborhood in Gazoo. The Israeli military said it was not aware of a strike involving a tank shell.
Overall, the Paleostinian corpse count since Thursday includes 11 bad boys, a Hamas policeman and six civilians.
Thousands attended Saturday's funerals. In Gazoo City, crowds of onlookers, including groups of children, watched as bodies wrapped in green Hamas flags were carried through the streets. During the funeral, Orcs and similar vermin had gun sex and chanted, "The blood of our deaders will not be spilled in vain." The latest round of fighting seems to end a period of relative restraint by both sides since the Gazoo war.
Israel had launched that three-week offensive to put an end to persistent rocket attacks from Gazoo on its southern border towns. Some 1,400 Gazooks were killed in the war, including hundreds of civilians, and Israel drew worldwide condemnation for what some said was excessive force against one of the world's most crowded territories.
However, The over-used However... Hamas largely held its fire after the war, while Israel largely refrained from carrying out assassinations of Gazoo bad boys, once a common practice.
Thursday's bus attack marked a turning point for Hamas.
It remains unclear whether it was carried out by rogue Orcs and similar vermin going against the movement's orders or was authorized by Hamas leaders. However, The over-used However... those behind the attack must have taken a harsh Israeli response into account. Hamas may also be trying to test whether, in the wake of the Gazoo war, Israel will be more subdued in its retaliation.
Thousands of rockets from Gazoo have hit Israeli towns and cities since 2001. Israel's attempts to stop the rockets have included military incursions and covert operations abroad aimed at disrupting Hamas' efforts to procure arms.
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Napalm the whole da$$$$ place, from Ashkelon to Rafah, then turn the pigs loose when the fires stop burning. I have zero sympathy or respect for anyone in Gaza.
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A gunman killed in a shoot-out with security forces was among four people shot dead in southern Thailand.
The 47-year-old Muslim man died in the gun battle after 70 police officers and army troops surrounded a house in Yala province on Saturday after a tip-off that terrorists militants were hiding on the property.
The victim had been wanted on several arrest warrants related to terrorism security issues including shootings and bombings. Two others are believed to have escaped.
Also in Yala province, a 47-year-old Buddhist deputy village leader and a 20-year-old Muslim security volunteer were gunned down as they rode on a motorbike on Friday afternoon.
In a another incident on Friday in Pattani province a 52-year-old Muslim government employee was shot dead as he drove to collect his pay.
Store owner shot, injured in Pattani
The manager of a construction materials store in Pattani province was shot and seriously wounded on Saturday afternoon.
Phanom Prommanee, 38, was sitting in his shop together with another three employees when two men on a motorcycle walked into the shop pretending to be customers. One of them suddenly took out his pistol, fired at him and then fled.
Mr Phanom was hit by four bullets in his neck and body.
Four people including a security forces officer are said to have been shot dead in the Syrian port of Baniyas two days after deadly clashes in the south. Pro-government militia shot three protesters, eyewitnesses said, while state media reported the death of the officer in an ambush.
Unverifiable reports say 26 protesters and 19 members of the security forces died on Friday in Deraa. Syrian rights groups said security forces had opened fire at funerals.
The National Organisation for Human Rights accused the security forces of using unjustified violence to break up peaceful demonstrations at the funerals, for for protesters killed in previous clashes.
State TV said earlier that 19 members of the police and other security forces in Deraa had been shot dead and 75 wounded by "armed groups".
A protest was also held in Baniyas on Friday, the TV added, describing it as a peaceful rally to call for faster reforms.
Protests against President Bashar al-Assad's 11-year rule have centred on Deraa since mid-March.
He has offered to consider reforms but activists say his proposals do not go far enough.
In the ambush near Baniyas reported by Syria's state news agency Sana, a second member of the security forces was reportedly wounded.
Telephone lines, internet access and electricity are apparently cut in the area of the port, 300km (185 miles) north-west of the capital Damascus, making it difficult to get a clear picture of the situation.
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If Assad falls and Syria is ruled by the majority Sunnis, they will be more united and stronger. Not a win for Israelis.
Precisely. As an Alawite heretic, Assad can count on 10% of the population (his co-religionists). Syria as a Hamas state does not bear thinking about. I bet the Sunni mullahs are fulminating against the Alawite usurpers in power every single Friday. If Assad is smart, he's working on an action plan for disappearing the mullahs who speak against him.
[Ennahar] The Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs Walid Muallem on Saturday blamed "saboteurs" for violence in Syria, theater since mid-March of an unprecedented challenge to the regime of hereditary President Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist presidents-for-life. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... , according to state news agency Sana.
"Syria respects the right to protest peacefully but saboteurs infiltrated the ranks of the demonstrators and opened fire on demonstrators and security agents to incite violence and chaos," said Muallem.
"Such incidents are extremely damaging to the economy, and security of citizens. Saboteurs want to harm the image of Syria. It is no longer possible to remain silent and we should take steps to preserve security, stability," he added.
Muallem spoke to the ambassadors accredited to Syria about the bloody festivities on Friday in Deraa, where at least 37 people were killed by police who fired live bullets at the demonstrators, according to Ammar Qorabi, president of the National Organization for Human Rights (ONDH).
The Interior Ministry said for his part that 19 members of security forces were killed and 75 maimed by shots fired by "gangs" in Deraa.
And he announced at night that security forces would react harshly now: "To preserve the security of the homeland, citizens and public institutions, the Syrian authorities will deal with these conspirators, driven by foreign parties, to those who handle them."
So far, "the military and security officials have refrained from opening fire, which caused many deaths and injuries among them," assured the department.
Muallem also emphasized the character "legitimate popular demands" and said that Syria would "adopt a program of economic, political and judicial reforms, and intended to fight against corruption".
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[Ennahar] Algerian journalist Zine Cherfaoui sent by the daily El Watan to Syria to cover the demonstrations against the regime of Bashir al-Assad, has been blocked since Thursday at the Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... airport, officials said Saturday.
Zine Cherfaoui is held in a hotel in the international zone of the airport of Damascus, the source said.
The Syrian authorities have ordered him to leave the country by the next scheduled flight to Algiers Sunday.
The journalist has not been subjected to violence, according to his colleagues interviewed by AFP.
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[Al Jazeera] Thousands gathered to attend the funerals of those killed in Syria's recent violence, while a local rights group accused state security forces of committing a crime against humanity, following the violent deaths.
People chanted freedom slogans after assembling for the mass funerals near the old Omari mosque in the old quarter of the southern city of Daraa on Saturday.
The National Organisation for Human Rights said that 37 people were killed during Friday's demonstrations across the country.
In Daraa, the centre of the protests, 30 people were killed. Three more people died in the central city of Homs and three in Harasta, a Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... suburb, as well as one in Douma.
"Probably the protests yesterday were the most widespread since they began less than a month ago," Al Jizz's Rula Amin said from the capital Damascus.
"People [in Daraa] are telling us thousands are expected to take part in the funerals of those who were killed and they insist on their version of events that it was the security forces who shot at their sons."
Residents in the Sunni district of Latakia also said security forces used live ammunition in the early hours of Saturday to disperse a pro-democracy protest by hundreds of people there.
"What is happening in Syria is a flagrant violation of [human rights]," ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... the National Organisation for Human Rights said in a statement.
"The Syrian security committed [in Daraa] what could be called a crime against humanity ... It fired indiscriminately on protesters and killed and maimed tens of them."
The group listed the names of the dead in Daraa.
'Armed gangs' accused
Protests have spread across Syria, challenging the rule of hereditary President Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad, One of the last of the old-fashioned hereditary iron-fisted fascist presidents-for-life. Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor... and dozens of demonstrators have been killed.
After Friday's bloodshed, Syria's interior ministry warned it would not tolerate breaches of the law and would deal with "gangs", state news agency SANA said on Saturday.
"What the government is saying is that it has its own forces being shot at. They say about 19 policeman and security members were killed during the festivities in Daraa and they accuse armed gangs," our correspondent said.
A witness in Latakia told Rooters he saw water trucks hosing down blood on the streets near the Takhasussieh School in the Sleibeh district, 330 km northwest of Damascus.
"One cannot move two steps in the streets without risking arrest. It is difficult to know if there were deaths, but we heard heavy AK-47 fire," a resident said.
"One thing is certain. This regime of thugs is exposing its fangs. Brutality is the only thing it knows," he told Rooters by telephone.
Activists have called for daily rallies in Syria following the recent violence there.
In Daraa, 60km south of Damascus and the site of the mass funerals, there was a heavy security and army presence, our correspondent said.
People there used the mass burial as a means to demonstrate against the government.
"The burial of each of the deaders will become a demonstration against the regime and in favour of freedom, even if the interior ministry statement warns there will be further violence," a local activist said.
Protesters in Syria are demanding an end to the country's emergency law, in place since 1963. They are also calling for greater political freedoms, reforms and an end to corruption.
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[Tolo News] Police Chief of Gosfandi district of Sar-e-Pul has been killed in a Taliban attack, provincial officials said on Saturday.
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[Ennahar] A new march of opponents, the ninth since February at the invitation of one faction of the National Coordination for Change and Democracy in Algeria (CNDC), was prevented by police Saturday in Algiers according to the press.
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[Al Jazeera] Libyan rebel forces have beaten off a new assault by government troops on the besieged western city of Misurata, but lost eight of their fighters in fierce street battles.
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