C de Waart; CdW Intelligence to Rent [email protected]In Confidence Al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri The Coordinator 2015 Part 4-1-Syria-14 The greatest threat to global security is the rapidly increasing number of failed states. Even though there is no agreed-upon definition of a failed state, it is generally understood that when a government can no longer provide basic security to its people due to a rise in violence or extreme poverty, or loses control over part of its territory to domestic or foreign terrorist groups, the state has failed. A major reason to be concerned about the increasing number of failed states is that they are natural breeding grounds for local or international terrorists. This week Qatar’s foreign minister Khadlid Al-Attiyah said Doha is mulling military intervention in Syria alongside Turkey and Saudi Arabia to fight Assad, rather than ISIS. The Syrian army backed by Hezbollah fighters and the Russian air force destroyed terrorists' positions in Aleppo, Hama, Daraa, Homs, Damascus and Idlib over past 24 hours. This directly counters Henry Kissinger’s call in the Wall Street Journal that “the destruction of ISIS is more urgent than the overthrow of Bashar Assad, who has already lost over half of the area he once controlled. Making sure that this territory does not become a permanent terrorist haven must have precedence.” Should Qatar continue to provoke an escalation of Syrian war, it may very well end up confronting the three nuclear powers of not just the Russian bear, but also the Chinese dragon and Indian tiger to defend their homeland from Qatar-backed jihadists. If the US and Europe do not want Qatar to turn the Syrian war into World War III, then as Professor Chellaney exhorted, “for the sake of regional and international security”, this gadfly-turned rogue elephant “must be tamed.” Global Research 29 December 2012 “Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Iran’s President has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, “Israel must be wiped off the map”. Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made, …” (Arash Norouzi, Wiped off The Map: The Rumor of the Century January 2007) “This is a [Pentagon] memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it 1 The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. –Winston Churchill Cees de Waart: CdW Intelligence to Rent Page 1 of 12 01/03/2022
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The greatest threat to global security is the rapidly increasing number of failed states. Even though there is no agreed-upon definition of a failed state, it is generally understood that when a government can no longer provide basic security to its people due to a rise in violence or extreme poverty, or loses control over part of its territory to domestic or foreign terrorist groups, the state has failed. A major reason to be concerned about the increasing number of failed states is that they are natural breeding grounds for local or international terrorists.
This week Qatar’s foreign minister Khadlid Al-Attiyah said Doha is mulling military intervention in Syria alongside Turkey and Saudi Arabia to fight Assad, rather than ISIS.The Syrian army backed by Hezbollah fighters and the Russian air force destroyed terrorists' positions in Aleppo, Hama, Daraa, Homs, Damascus and Idlib over past 24 hours.
This directly counters Henry Kissinger’s call in the Wall Street Journal that “the destruction of ISIS is more urgent than the overthrow of Bashar Assad, who has already lost over half of the area he once controlled. Making sure that this territory does not become a permanent terrorist haven must have precedence.”
Should Qatar continue to provoke an escalation of Syrian war, it may very well end up confronting the three nuclear powers of not just the Russian bear, but also the Chinese dragon and Indian tiger to defend their homeland from Qatar-backed jihadists. If the US and Europe do not want Qatar to turn the Syrian war into World War III, then as Professor Chellaney exhorted, “for the sake of regional and international security”, this gadfly-turned rogue elephant “must be tamed.”
Global Research 29 December 2012 “Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Iran’s President has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, “Israel must be wiped off the map”. Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made, …” (Arash Norouzi, Wiped off The Map: The Rumor of the Century January 2007)
“This is a [Pentagon] memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.” (General Wesley Clark, Democracy Now, March 2, 2007)
The Washington based National Intelligence Council (NIC) in its Global Trends report (December 2012) “predicts” that 15 countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East will become “failed states” by 2030, due to their “potential for conflict and environmental ills”.
The list of countries in the 2012 NIC report includes Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Kenya, Burundi, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Somalia, DR Congo, Malawi, Haiti, Yemen.
Riyadh, Ankara in Collaboration to Supply Terrorists in Syria with Ukraine's SAM Missiles. Oct 27, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are spending huge sums to open their path into the Ukrainian army's missile depots to transfer the surface-to-air SAM-8 and SAM-9 missile systems to Northern Syria to strengthen the terrorist groups, the Arabic-language Lebanese al-Akhbar reported on Tuesday. The daily underlined that the Ukrainian army officials are opposed to Russia and its military strikes against the terrorists in Syria.
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According to al-Akhbar, certain sources have revealed that the Saudi-Turkish plan has already made so much success that Russia has revised contingency plans after assessments showed a strikingly higher possibility that their helicopters could be targeted by these anti-aircraft missiles now. Turkey and Saudi Arabia have been supplying terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq with arms and funds all throughout the last 4 years. In relevant remarks, Iraq's Vice-President Nuri al-Maliki took Saudi Arabia and Turkey responsible for spreading terrorism through their huge continued support for terrorist groups, specially the ISIL. "The ISIL was a movement created by certain regional states, headed by Saudi Arabia, with sectarian and political goals," Maliki, a former Prime Minister, told FNA in the Northeastern city of Mashhad in August. "The ISIL is supported by Saudi Arabia and Turkey as Ankara sought to overthrow President Assad's government," he added. Elsewhere, Maliki referred to the internal situation in Iraq and its fight against the terrorist groups, and underlined the popular forces' vital role in taking back ISIL-held regions.The popular forces helped the Iraqi army after senior clerics issued a fatwa (religious decree) in support of campaign against terrorism and "we believe that there wouldn't have been any Iraq now if it hadn't been for them", he added.
Oct 27, 2015 Syria in Last 24 Hours: Army Makes New Gains in Key Provinces
TEHRAN (FNA Oct 27)- The Syrian army backed by Hezbollah fighters and the Russian air force destroyed terrorists' positions in Aleppo, Hama, Daraa, Homs, Damascus and Idlib over past 24 hours.Dozens of terrorists were killed and many more were wounded in the Syrian army's military operations across Syria on Monday.
Aleppo The Syrian army and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance forces backed by the Russian air force seized back over 150 square kilometers of territories in operations in the Southwestern parts of Aleppo province. The army and the resistance forces have won back Qala'at Al-Najam village, Hadadin village, Al-Shahid hilltops, Zeytouna Farms, Al-Kabdar Garrison, Mleiha Village, Abtayn Village, Al-Vazihi village, Kodar village, Al-Sabeqiya village, Shaqidla town, Tanks Battalion, Tal al-Naa’am, Al-Naa'am town, Al-Nasseriya town, Heijeneh, Howeija town, Boqja town, al-Barijieh, Kafr Tuna and al-
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Harra.The army and resistance forces were engaged in heavy clashes with the militants on Monday to take control of the Khanasser-Ithriyah road which links Hama province to the Northern parts of the country, specially the city of Aleppo.
Hama The sources said that the ISIL strongholds in Arafeh village and Latmin in the Hama countryside were massively bombed by the Syrian Air Force, which left scores of the terrorists dead and wounded.
Daraa The Daraa-Damascus logistic route used by the militants for carrying ammunition and weapons was identified and attacked by the intelligence unit of the Syrian Army over past 24 hours. The Syrian forces seized all the ammunition and weapons in the convoy and cut the supplying line of the militants in the region.
Homs Syrian army troops liberated part of a highway connecting the city of Homs to Damascus following fierce clashes with ISIL terrorists. "Now we are in control of Damascus-Homs highway between the capital and (the city of) Harasta," a military source said. The Syrian army aims to regain control of the remaining 10 kilometers (over 6 miles) of the road.
Damascus The Syrian army seized a tunnel used by the terrorist groups in Damascus province. The Syrian troops seized the tunnel in Jobar in Damascus province. Meantime, Syria's largest coalition of terrorist groups is experiencing disintegration as one of its main members, Jund al-Aqsa, defected Jeish al-Fath Alliance. Jund al-Aqsa terrorist group in a statement announced its separation from the Jeish al-Fath umbrella. Jund al-Aqsa announced that it has defected the Jeish al-Fath Alliance because it has been under the pressure of another alliance member, Ahrar al-Sham, to fight the ISIL. However, Jund al-Aqsa, reiterated that it does not support the ISIL, although it believes that fighting the ISIL under the present conditions will not be a wise decision. Syrian fighter jets carried out several sorties of flights over militant positions in Hama and Idlib, and hit their infrastructures hard with a large number of missiles, field sources said.
Idlib The Syrian bombers stormed a concentration center of the terrorist groups in Khan Sheikhoun in the Northwestern province of Idlib, inflicting heavy losses upon them.Meantime, hundreds of wanted Jeish al-Islam militants are ready now for national reconciliation with the Syrian government as the country's army, backed by Russian air support, has achieved a faster momentum in its gains in terrorist-held regions, a senior Kurdish lawmaker announced on Monday. "The participation of the Russian air force in anti-ISIL military operations in Syria has forced the Jeish al-Islam militants of Eastern Ghouta to voice their readiness to take part in Syria's national reconciliation process," the Arabic-language Al-Watan newspaper quoted Syria's Kurdish MP Omar Oussa as saying.He reiterated that Russia's participation in anti-ISIL fight has inflicted heavy losses on the Takfiri terrorists fighting against the Syrian government.
TEHRAN (FNA 27 Oct )- The Syrian army intensified its military operations against the foreign-backed Takfiri militants in Idlib province on Tuesday, killing at least 130 terrorists in a surge of clashes. The army destroyed 12 vehicles of the terrorist groups affiliated to the so-called "Jaish al-Fateh", and killed at least 60 terrorists in the Southern countryside of the Idlib. The army also targeted terrorists' positions in Maarata village in Jabal al-Zawieh area, destroying 10 vehicles and killing 50 militants, most of them foreigners, including three Turkish nationals. Two senior commanders of al-Nusra Front and the so-called "Jund al-Aqsa" were also identified among the dead
TEHRAN (FNA 27 Oct )- Hundreds of terrorists fled their positions in Aleppo province as the Syrian army, backed by the country's warplanes and Russian fighter jets, staged a large-scale offensive on the positions of the Takfiri militants.
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Informed sources said Tuesday that the terrorists fled as the Syrian forces continue to advance against the militants. On Tuesday, the Syrian and Russian air raids hit several concentration centers of the Takfiri militant groups in Aleppo, inflicting heavy losses on the terrorists. The Syrian army and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance forces, backed by Russian warplanes, continued to advance against the Takfiri militants in Aleppo province, informed sources said Tuesday. The Syrian army, the National Defense Forces and Hezbollah forces advanced against the militant groups in Aleppo to lift the two-year-long siege imposed by the ISIL terrorists on the Kuweires Airbase. The Syrian forces also attacked militants' positions in the town of Sheikh Ahmad, killing tens of terrorists. The Syrian forces also repelled large-scale ISIL attacks on army checkpoints on the road to Sheikh Hilal village.
TEHRAN (FNA 27 Oct)- The Syrian army and the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance forces seized back the city of Jisr al-Shughour and its surrounding mountainous areas in the province of Idlib on Tuesday. Field sources reiterated that the army and the resistance forces are now advancing towards new areas in Idlib province that are under the control of Ahrar al-Sham and Jeish al-Fath militants. The Syrian army and the resistance forces also took control of strategic hilltops in the Mountainous area of Jisr al-Shughour.At least 300 Takfiri terrorists were killed in Jisr al-Shughour area. The Jisr al-Shuguour operations is another phase of the massive military operations that started in Aleppo, Northern Lattakia, and Idlib about 10 days ago. Jisr al-Shughour is located in the Western parts of Idlib province and it is of highly strategic importance. The city links Syria's coastal towns as well as the Idlib and Aleppo provinces. It has a population of over 150,000 people.
Most recently, Yemen has become a failed state with no operating central government. There are now a number of independent groups operating within Yemen, ranging from Marxists to various shades of radical Muslims — not a pretty or encouraging picture. Yet it was only two years ago that President Obama was citing Yemen as a success story. Another Obama administration “triumph” is Libya, now a failed state without a functioning national government. Libya has also turned into a major arms supplier for the Islamic State, also called ISIS, and other radical groups, and is a breeding and training ground for terrorists.Syria is a failed state with the government only controlling a small part of its territory, and hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing to Lebanon and other neighboring countries. Lebanon has enjoyed a shaky peace since the end of its civil war a quarter of a century ago, which is increasingly being destabilized by the Syrian refugee crisis and the rise of competing Islamist groups. Lebanon may be on its way to becoming a failed state.The Iraqi government now only controls the Shiite region of the country in the east while the Kurds are gaining more independence in the regions they control. Even if ISIS is defeated, the Sunni part of Iraq is unlikely to return under control of the Baghdad government, because the Iranians are in the process of turning the Shiite region of Iraq (including Baghdad) into a vassal state. Mark down Iraq as a likely failed state.There are continuing questions of the ability of Afghanistan to be viable once the Americans and other NATO troops withdraw. Again, another likely failed state.The drop in the real price of oil — which, as a result of fracking and other new technologies, is permanently increasing supply from many areas of the globe — will have a destabilizing effect on the traditional oil export-dependent countries as their real incomes fall. Failed states could emerge in places such as Nigeria and Venezuela. One can confidently, but depressingly, predict that the situation will only get worse. We have
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learned that “nation-building” is likely to remain a mirage in countries with institutions, culture and religions that fail to recognize and support the secular rule of law, private property rights, and provide the incentives for entrepreneurship. Richard W. Rahn is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and chairman of the Institute for Global Economic Growth
Turkey is the next failed state in the Middle East: SpenglerBY DAVID P. GOLDMAN on OCTOBER 10, 2015 in AT TOP WRITERS, DAVID P. GOLDMAN, MIDDLE EAST, SPENGLERWe do not know just who detonated the two bombs that killed 95 Kurdish and allied activists in Ankara, but the least likely conjecture is that President Erdogan’s government is guiltless in the matter. As Turkish member of parliament Lutfu Turkkan, tweeted after the bombing, the attack “was either a failure by the intelligence service, or it was done by the intelligence service.” Betrayed by both the United States and Russia, and faced with the emergence of a Kurdish state on its borders and the rise of Kurdish parties in the parliamentary opposition, Erdogan is cornered. At risk in the short-term is the ability of his AKP party to govern after the upcoming November elections. At risk in the medium term is the cohesion of the Turkish state itself. In public, Western leaders have hailed Turkey as “a great Islamic democracy,” as President Obama characterized it in a 2010 interview. That was the view of the George W. Bush adminstration before Obama, which invited Erdogan to the White House before his election as prime minister in November 2002. A minority of military and intelligence analysts, though, has warned that Turkey may not be viable within its present borders in the medium term. The trouble is that its Kurdish minority, now at 20% of the overall population, has twice as many children as ethnic Turks, so many that half of Turkey’s military-age population will speak Kurdish as a first language in fewer than twenty years. An existential crisis for Turkey has been in the making for years, as I reported in my 2011 book, How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam is Dying, Too). During the past week, a perfect storm has overtaken Turkish policy, and threatens to provoke deep political instability. Turkey may become the region’s next failed state.
C: A recording by Ayman al-Zawahiri released this September and believed to have been made around February reflects the shift in Al-Qaeda’s strategy. Al Qaida was to act as a “call” or a “methodology” for global revolution. Groups should focus on failing states in the Islamic world. Today, calls “political guerrilla war.” Responding to the doubts, Ayman al-Zawahiri earlier this year outlined in a secret communication the strategy for the Syrian branch. A strategic shift that is causing a schism within the organization is focusing upon Syria and abandoning the traditional objective of targeting the far off enemy, meaning the U.S. Ayman al-Zawahiri instructed the leadership of Jabhat al-Nusra’s to adapt to the local cultural and political environment by coordinating more closely with other Islamic groups. The movement is to promote a Sharia legal system and to strengthen its base within Syria.
Oct 23, Saudi, Turkey, Russia and the US have not reached consensus on the political fate of Syrian President Bashar al Assad during a meeting held exploring how to the five-year conflict that has claimed over 250,000 lives, according to the Saudi foreign minister. Adel al-Jubeir also confirmed on Friday that the four countries, currently represented by top diplomats in Vienna, would continue consulting on Syria, according to reports quoting Russian news agencies. US secretary of state John Kerry, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, the Turkish foreign minister Feridun Hadi Sinirili and Saudi's al-Jubeir were
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involved in Friday's meeting. Al Jazeera's Barnaby Phillips, speaking in the Austrian capital, said Assad lies at the heart of the discussions. While Moscow believes Assad should remain part of the political process, others think the Syrian leader should be removed from power in order for the war to end. "Saudi, the US and Turkey see Assad as an obstacle for peace," Al Jazeera's Phillips said. "That crucial difference of opinion seems to be unresolved."
Oct 25, This week Qatar’s foreign minister Khadlid Al-Attiyah said Doha is mulling military intervention in Syria alongside Turkey and Saudi Arabia to fight Assad, rather than ISIS. This directly counters Henry Kissinger’s call in the Wall Street Journal that “the destruction of ISIS is more urgent than the overthrow of Bashar Assad, who has already lost over half of the area he once controlled. Making sure that this territory does not become a permanent terrorist haven must have precedence.”Al Attiyah even tried to spin the narrative of Qatar as the defender of Syrian people, proclaiming “We will spare no efforts to do anything that can help protect the Syrian people…with our Saudi and Turkish brethren,” and defended Al Qaeda affiliate Ahrar Al-Sham as part of the “moderate opposition.”However, it is unclear how Qatar is defending the Syrian people when its mercenary jihadists in the anti-Assad groups are committing genocide and ethno-religious cleansing in Syria. The Free Syrian Army and Nusra even made a video to boast of their 2013 massacre of the Christian village of Sadad where 45 Christians including children and women were tortured and executed, while Druze and other religious minorities continue to be slaughtered by these Sunni extremists.Moreover, these Qatar/Saudi/Turkey backed “Syrian rebels” are not even Syrian, with German intelligence BND estimating 95% of the fighters are paid foreign mercenaries, and in 2013 Saudi Arabia sent more than 1,200 death row inmates ranging from Yemen, Sudan, Jordan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia to wage Syrian jihad.In truth, the Syrian war has long ceased to be a civil war of Syrian people fighting for democratic reforms, and is now a full-blown war waged by foreign powers of Doha, Riyadh and Ankara to replace a secular autocracy with an extremist Islamic theocracy under their control.
Qatar’s export of jihad destabilizing greater Middle EastWriting in October 2014, renowned Indian strategist Professor Brahma Chellaney from Center for Policy Research, observed that Qatar’s duplicitous role of exporting jihad to the Middle East, North Africa and beyond while supporting the US in its fight against them, has transformed the gas-rich speck of a country “from a regional gadfly into an international rogue elephant” that “must be tamed.”Chellaney criticized Arab autocracies that aided ISIS rise are now in Obama’s “coalition of the willing,” that is “a coalition of sinners now dressed as knights in shining armour.” He noted how Qatar and Saudi Arabia pouring weapons and funds to Sunni extremists in Syria eventually created fertile ground that spawned ISIS. This nefarious pattern of supporting violent jihadists is further evidenced by their bolstering Afghan Taliban, accelerating Libya’s transformation into a failed state via their breeding of Islamist militia, with Qatar even deploying troops covertly inside Libya in the 2011 campaign to oust Gaddafi—much like they are threatening to do now in Syria.Writing in Japan Times, Chellaney chastised the anti-Assad coalition’s naïveté in trying to distinguish between ‘moderate’ and ‘radical’ jihadists, and that “the term ‘moderate jihadists’ is an oxymoron: those waging jihad by gun can never be moderate.”
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Using Al Udeid Air Base as a weapon to hold US hostage to its agenda and enabling its misadventures with impunity, Qatar’s clout now “allows it to run with the foxes while it hunts with the hounds”, while funding violent Salafi-jihadists in Syria, Mali, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Gaza and elsewhere has left a destructive trail of destabilized and failing states throughout the greater Middle East.
Migrant influx as “hybrid warfare” against EU? As Qatar is now sabre rattling and threatening to pour more fuel into the jihadi inferno in Syria with no end in sight, it’s the Syrian people who suffer the most at the hands of Doha’s policy. And while Syrians are fleeing jihad at home to neighboring Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, and Turkey, how many refugees have the “defender of the Syrian people” Qatar, Saudis and other rich Arab Gulf states taken? According to director of Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth, zero. Instead, Saudi Arabia offered to build 200 mosques in Germany to preach extremist Wahhabi Islam to further radicalize the new migrant Muslim population, prompting CDU Deputy Chairman Armin Laschet’s quick rebuke that “Instead of talking about funding mosques, Saudi Arabia should be thinking about taking refugees and ending financing of ISIS.” CSU general secretary Andrea Scheuer likewise called the offer “cynical,” given the Kingdom is creating thousands of refugees of its own by bombing Yemen that has already killed more than 2,000 civilians and wounded 4,000 others, including 135 at a wedding party that were mostly women and children.EU chief Donald Tusk went further and slammed the migrant influx as a campaign of “hybrid warfare” by Turkey and regional states to coerce EU concessions (e.g., financial aid, visa-free travel from Turkey, buffer zone for Qatar/Turkey/Saudi jihadi Army of Conquest and Qatar-Turkey pipeline.)Meanwhile, as Russia is effectively attacking ISIS and Al Qaeda-infested Army of Conquest that has burrowed itself in Idlib, Qatar is now attempting to sabotage these gains to aid the jihadists. This is a direct threat to not only Russia, but especially China given this Conquest Army consists of anti-Chinese jihadists, as well as thousands of Chechen and Central Asian fighters that are already attacking their homeland. India’s Kashmir has also fallen prey to Qatar’s Syrian policy, with some Indian scholars calling for joining Russian airstrikes against these salafi jihadists.Should Qatar continue to provoke an escalation of Syrian war, it may very well end up confronting the three nuclear powers of not just the Russian bear, but also the Chinese dragon and Indian tiger to defend their homeland from Qatar-backed jihadists. If the US and Europe do not want Qatar to turn the Syrian war into World War III, then as Professor Chellaney exhorted, “for the sake of regional and international security”, this gadfly-turned rogue elephant “must be tamed.”
Western-backed rebels of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) have rejected an offer of military support from Russia.25 Oct An FSA spokesman told the BBC that Moscow could not be trusted and that its help was not needed. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that Russia was ready to help the rebels if they attacked militants from the Islamic State (IS) group. On Sunday, an FSA spokesman told the BBC that Russia had no role in Syria. "[Russian President] Vladimir Putin, is assisting a regime that indiscriminately kills their own people," Issam al-Reis said."How could we trust the Russians' help?" Mr Issam said the FSA would continue fighting President Bashar al-Assad, who "was not part of the solution" to ending Syria's civil war. "If the Syrians stood with Assad he would not ask for invaders to come to Syria," he said.
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