Source-OpinionMaker.org/Wayne Madsen Report
An Israeli Chabad sect couple, Rabbi Sheneor Zalman and his wife Yaffa Shenoi, have been told by Kerala police to leave India in fifteen days. The two are suspected by the Indian intelligence, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of being involved in a covert operation in India linked to the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack in which six Chabad members were killed in a shootout between Dawood Ibrahim's Pakistan-based gangsters and the residents of Mumbai's Chabad House. The incident was reported as a major act of terrorism when, in fact, it was score settling between Ibrahim's drug syndicate and Chabadniks who were seen as moving in on Ibrahim's control over the Mumbai drug trade.
WMR has previously reported that Chabad houses around the world are believed by multiple intelligence agencies to be centers for Mossad activity operating under religious "cover."
RAW agents apparently staked out the couple's pricey residence in Kochi as late night meetings were conducted with suspect individuals under Indian intelligence surveillance. The Israeli couple had lived in Kochi for almost two years. After being presented with evidence of espionage by the intelligence and police services, the Ernakulum District in Kochi decided to order the Israeli couple deported.
Chabad Jews and Mossad were forced to leave their former base in Goa as a result of increased RAW and federal police surveillance of their activities, believed to include the shipment of heroin from Afghanistan to Southeast Asia in the east and the United Arab Emirates to the west. The Israeli Mossad and Chabad re-located their operations to Kochi, which had replaced Goa as a major drug trans-shipment point.
In addition, Mumbai bombing suspect David Headley is believed to have maintained contact with the Mossad station in Goa prior to the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Headley is believed to have also maintained links with Ibrahim's crime syndicate in Pakistan and the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group in planning false flag terroist attacks in India. hen the green light for the Mumbai attacks was given, Ibrahim's men decided to use the occasion to also attack their drug smuggling competitors at the Mumbai Chabad House.
Kochi had, according to WMR's Indian intelligence sources, also served as a clandestine communications support facility for Israeli Dolphin-class submarines and their contingent of naval divers operating in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea. The submarines are believed to be targeting Iran in the event of an outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Iran.
Indian intelligence also believes the Israelis in Kochi were targeting the classified communications of the Indian naval base in Kochi, the headquarters for the Indian Navy's Southern Command. By targeting the Kochi naval base and the anti-submarine warfare intelligence elements there and at the Indian naval air station on Willingdon Island, the Israelis were capable of providing warning to Israeli forces of Indian, Chinese, American, British, and French warships transiting past the tip of southern India to the Arabian and Red Seas.
Rabbi Zalman and his wife denied all charges against them and insisted they were meeting people day and night as a service to the local Jewish community.
Our sources say that after years of being played by Mossad, RAW has finally taken action against a major Mossad operating cell in the country.
An Israeli Chabad sect couple, Rabbi Sheneor Zalman and his wife Yaffa Shenoi, have been told by Kerala police to leave India in fifteen days. The two are suspected by the Indian intelligence, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of being involved in a covert operation in India linked to the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attack in which six Chabad members were killed in a shootout between Dawood Ibrahim's Pakistan-based gangsters and the residents of Mumbai's Chabad House. The incident was reported as a major act of terrorism when, in fact, it was score settling between Ibrahim's drug syndicate and Chabadniks who were seen as moving in on Ibrahim's control over the Mumbai drug trade.
WMR has previously reported that Chabad houses around the world are believed by multiple intelligence agencies to be centers for Mossad activity operating under religious "cover."
RAW agents apparently staked out the couple's pricey residence in Kochi as late night meetings were conducted with suspect individuals under Indian intelligence surveillance. The Israeli couple had lived in Kochi for almost two years. After being presented with evidence of espionage by the intelligence and police services, the Ernakulum District in Kochi decided to order the Israeli couple deported.
Chabad Jews and Mossad were forced to leave their former base in Goa as a result of increased RAW and federal police surveillance of their activities, believed to include the shipment of heroin from Afghanistan to Southeast Asia in the east and the United Arab Emirates to the west. The Israeli Mossad and Chabad re-located their operations to Kochi, which had replaced Goa as a major drug trans-shipment point.
In addition, Mumbai bombing suspect David Headley is believed to have maintained contact with the Mossad station in Goa prior to the Mumbai terrorist attacks. Headley is believed to have also maintained links with Ibrahim's crime syndicate in Pakistan and the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist group in planning false flag terroist attacks in India. hen the green light for the Mumbai attacks was given, Ibrahim's men decided to use the occasion to also attack their drug smuggling competitors at the Mumbai Chabad House.
Kochi had, according to WMR's Indian intelligence sources, also served as a clandestine communications support facility for Israeli Dolphin-class submarines and their contingent of naval divers operating in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea. The submarines are believed to be targeting Iran in the event of an outbreak of hostilities between Israel and Iran.
Indian intelligence also believes the Israelis in Kochi were targeting the classified communications of the Indian naval base in Kochi, the headquarters for the Indian Navy's Southern Command. By targeting the Kochi naval base and the anti-submarine warfare intelligence elements there and at the Indian naval air station on Willingdon Island, the Israelis were capable of providing warning to Israeli forces of Indian, Chinese, American, British, and French warships transiting past the tip of southern India to the Arabian and Red Seas.
Rabbi Zalman and his wife denied all charges against them and insisted they were meeting people day and night as a service to the local Jewish community.
Our sources say that after years of being played by Mossad, RAW has finally taken action against a major Mossad operating cell in the country.
Source-BBC NEWS
The US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln has sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, close to the coast of Iran, for the second time in recent weeks.
A BBC reporter on board said an Iranian patrol boat at one point passed by two miles (3.2km) from the carrier.
The carrier was accompanied by a US cruiser and destroyer.
Iranian officials recently threatened to close the channel, through which 20% of the world's oil exports pass, in a row over oil trade embargoes.
The BBC's Jonathan Beale on board the Abraham Lincoln says the US has insisted it will keep the busy shipping lane open.
At its narrowest point, the Strait of Hormuz is only 21 nautical miles (40km) wide. Earlier, the US navy said the Iranian patrol boat passed within about half a mile of the carrier, but they later corrected this to two miles.
While travelling through the narrowest part of the strait, all fighter jets on the carrier were grounded, our correspondent says, but US Navy helicopters flew above the carrier.
He says it was clearly a carefully planned operation and the crew were pleased to have come through the most difficult stage of the voyage without incident.
A French warship and UK naval vessels accompanied the aircraft carrier in a journey through the strait last month.
As well as ensuring the shipping channel remains open, the aircraft carrier will also eventually have the task of assisting operations in Afghanistan.
The EU last month banned all oil imports from Iran amid growing concern over Tehran's nuclear programme.
Both the US and EU have since lobbied countries around the world to block Iranian oil imports.
Iran says its nuclear programme is solely for power generation, but Western nations fear Tehran is trying to develop a weapons capability.
The US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln has sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, close to the coast of Iran, for the second time in recent weeks.
A BBC reporter on board said an Iranian patrol boat at one point passed by two miles (3.2km) from the carrier.
The carrier was accompanied by a US cruiser and destroyer.
Iranian officials recently threatened to close the channel, through which 20% of the world's oil exports pass, in a row over oil trade embargoes.
The BBC's Jonathan Beale on board the Abraham Lincoln says the US has insisted it will keep the busy shipping lane open.
At its narrowest point, the Strait of Hormuz is only 21 nautical miles (40km) wide. Earlier, the US navy said the Iranian patrol boat passed within about half a mile of the carrier, but they later corrected this to two miles.
While travelling through the narrowest part of the strait, all fighter jets on the carrier were grounded, our correspondent says, but US Navy helicopters flew above the carrier.
He says it was clearly a carefully planned operation and the crew were pleased to have come through the most difficult stage of the voyage without incident.
A French warship and UK naval vessels accompanied the aircraft carrier in a journey through the strait last month.
As well as ensuring the shipping channel remains open, the aircraft carrier will also eventually have the task of assisting operations in Afghanistan.
The EU last month banned all oil imports from Iran amid growing concern over Tehran's nuclear programme.
Both the US and EU have since lobbied countries around the world to block Iranian oil imports.
Iran says its nuclear programme is solely for power generation, but Western nations fear Tehran is trying to develop a weapons capability.
Source-NPR.org
Suspected Iranian Assailant Hurt In Bangkok Blast
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EnlargeApichart Weerawong/AP
A Thai Explosive Ordnance Disposal official examines a backpack that was left by a suspected bomber following two blasts Tuesday in Bangkok.
text size A A A February 14, 2012
An Iranian man carrying explosives blew off his own legs and wounded four other people in two blasts Tuesday in Bangkok, Thai authorities said. A third blast occurred in a nearby house.
Security forces found more explosives in the assailant's rented house in the capital, but it was not known what targets they might have been meant for, Police Gen. Pansiri Prapawat said.
Officials said immigration police detained a second Iranian man at Bangkok's international airport Tuesday night who was due to board a flight for neighboring Malaysia. Authorities were interrogating the man, but it is not yet known whether he was involved in the blasts.
A day earlier, an Israeli diplomatic car was bombed in New Delhi, and Israel blamed Iran for that attack. Authorities did not immediately say if a link was suspected, but Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said in Jerusalem, "we can't rule out any possibility."
One of the blasts in Bangkok damaged a taxi, and a grenade detonated as the assailant carried it down a sidewalk outside a Thai school, said Col. Warawut Taweechaikarn, a senior police officer in the district.
Photos of the wounded Iranian man showed him covered in dark soot on a sidewalk outside the school strewn with broken glass. A dark satchel nearby was investigated by a bomb disposal unit.
Pansiri said a passport found at the scene indicated the man was Saeid Moradi from Iran. Authorities in Tehran could not immediately be reached for comment.
Three Thai men and one Thai woman were brought to Kluaynamthai Hospital for treatment of injuries, Suwinai Busarakamwong, a doctor there, said.
A third blast occurred inside a rented house on the same road, busy with businesses and apartment blocks.
Last month, a Lebanese-Swedish man with alleged links to pro-Iranian Hezbollah militants was detained by Thai police. He led authorities to a warehouse filled with more than 8,800 pounds of urea fertilizer and several gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate.
Israel and the United States at the time warned their citizens to be alert in the capital, but Thai authorities said Thailand appeared to have been a staging ground but not the target of any attack.
Pansiri said that "so far, we haven't found any links between these two cases."
He said Moradi had been renting the house in Bangkok with two other unidentified foreigners. Immigration police are trying to trace Moradi's movements, but initial reports indicated he had at least traveled to Bangkok from the southern Thai resort town of Phuket on Feb. 8.
Bangkok's blasts came one day after bombs targeted Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia. The attack in India wounded four people, while the device found in Georgia did not explode. Iran has denied it was responsible.
In Jerusalem, Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said there was not yet any sign that any targets in Bangkok were Israeli or Jewish.
Israeli police have increased the state of alert in the country, emphasizing public places, foreign embassies and offices, as well as Ben-Gurion International Airport.
Thailand has rarely been a target for foreign terrorists, although a domestic Muslim insurgency in the country's south has involved bombings of civilian targets.
Suspected Iranian Assailant Hurt In Bangkok Blast
by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EnlargeApichart Weerawong/AP
A Thai Explosive Ordnance Disposal official examines a backpack that was left by a suspected bomber following two blasts Tuesday in Bangkok.
text size A A A February 14, 2012
An Iranian man carrying explosives blew off his own legs and wounded four other people in two blasts Tuesday in Bangkok, Thai authorities said. A third blast occurred in a nearby house.
Security forces found more explosives in the assailant's rented house in the capital, but it was not known what targets they might have been meant for, Police Gen. Pansiri Prapawat said.
Officials said immigration police detained a second Iranian man at Bangkok's international airport Tuesday night who was due to board a flight for neighboring Malaysia. Authorities were interrogating the man, but it is not yet known whether he was involved in the blasts.
A day earlier, an Israeli diplomatic car was bombed in New Delhi, and Israel blamed Iran for that attack. Authorities did not immediately say if a link was suspected, but Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said in Jerusalem, "we can't rule out any possibility."
One of the blasts in Bangkok damaged a taxi, and a grenade detonated as the assailant carried it down a sidewalk outside a Thai school, said Col. Warawut Taweechaikarn, a senior police officer in the district.
Photos of the wounded Iranian man showed him covered in dark soot on a sidewalk outside the school strewn with broken glass. A dark satchel nearby was investigated by a bomb disposal unit.
Pansiri said a passport found at the scene indicated the man was Saeid Moradi from Iran. Authorities in Tehran could not immediately be reached for comment.
Three Thai men and one Thai woman were brought to Kluaynamthai Hospital for treatment of injuries, Suwinai Busarakamwong, a doctor there, said.
A third blast occurred inside a rented house on the same road, busy with businesses and apartment blocks.
Last month, a Lebanese-Swedish man with alleged links to pro-Iranian Hezbollah militants was detained by Thai police. He led authorities to a warehouse filled with more than 8,800 pounds of urea fertilizer and several gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate.
Israel and the United States at the time warned their citizens to be alert in the capital, but Thai authorities said Thailand appeared to have been a staging ground but not the target of any attack.
Pansiri said that "so far, we haven't found any links between these two cases."
He said Moradi had been renting the house in Bangkok with two other unidentified foreigners. Immigration police are trying to trace Moradi's movements, but initial reports indicated he had at least traveled to Bangkok from the southern Thai resort town of Phuket on Feb. 8.
Bangkok's blasts came one day after bombs targeted Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia. The attack in India wounded four people, while the device found in Georgia did not explode. Iran has denied it was responsible.
In Jerusalem, Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said there was not yet any sign that any targets in Bangkok were Israeli or Jewish.
Israeli police have increased the state of alert in the country, emphasizing public places, foreign embassies and offices, as well as Ben-Gurion International Airport.
Thailand has rarely been a target for foreign terrorists, although a domestic Muslim insurgency in the country's south has involved bombings of civilian targets.
Source-France 24.com
Israel accuses Iran over embassy bombs
Israel assailed Iran as the world's "biggest exporter of terror" after two bombs targeted its overseas personnel in India and Georgia, critically wounding one female diplomat in New Delhi.
In Washington, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned Monday's "cowardly" attacks in the "strongest possible terms" but the White House reserved judgment on who was responsible.
Israel was in no doubt about whom to blame, after one of its embassy cars exploded in a ball of flames in central New Delhi and police defused a bomb affixed to another embassy vehicle in the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
"Iran is behind these attacks. It is the biggest exporter of terror in the world," Israeli Prime Minister Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told members of his right-wing Likud party in Jerusalem.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast rejected the accusations. "Iran condemns all acts of terrorism," he was quoted as saying by Al-Alam television.
In New Delhi, bystanders dragged the 42-year-old Israeli diplomat and her Indian driver from their burning car, after police said a hitman on a motorbike fixed a suspected magnet bomb to the silver Toyota as it slowed for a junction.
The diplomat is also the wife of Israel's defence attache in New Delhi, and was on her way to collect her children from school, officials said.
She was rushed to a private hospital where surgeons operated on multiple wounds including to her spine. "She is critical, but she is stable," the medical superintendent of the Primus Hospital, N.D. Khurana, told AFP.
An Israeli defence ministry spokesman in Jerusalem named the woman as Tal Yehoshua Koren and said she would be flown back to Israel "as soon as possible".
New Delhi communications lecturer Shashwati Goswami said he was opposite the car when it blew up.
"All of a sudden there was a boom and I saw that a car was engulfed in fire. I really got a shock," he told AFP.
In Tbilisi, an Israeli embassy employee found a bomb on his car and contacted police who were able to defuse the device before it detonated, according to Georgia's interior ministry.
The method used in the attacks resembles the tactics of assassins who have been targeting Iranian nuclear scientists with magnetic bombs placed on their vehicles.
Three scientists and a physicist have been killed in the past two years in murders blamed by Iran on Israeli and US secret services.
The bomb plots in New Delhi and Tbilisi also fell between anniversaries of the deaths of two top militants from Hezbollah, the militant group which has close ties to Iran. The anniversary sparks annual travel warnings from Israel.
Netanyahu said there had been a number of attempts to harm Israelis and Jews in recent months in places such as Thailand and Azerbaijan, in a series of plots he said were coordinated by Iran and Hezbollah.
Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said the latest attacks proved that Israelis both at home and abroad were "a target for terrorists" but that the country knew "how to identify those who are responsible".
India, which is no stranger to militant attacks, ordered security to be tightened at diplomatic missions and Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna voiced regret.
"India very strongly condemns such incidents and it is going to be fully investigated and the culprits will be brought to justice at the earliest," he said in a statement.
The last militant strike in New Delhi was in September when a bomb outside the High Court killed 14 people -- one of a series of blasts that has shaken public confidence in the government's counter-terror capabilities.
Israel assailed Iran as the world's "biggest exporter of terror" after two bombs targeted its overseas personnel in India and Georgia, critically wounding one female diplomat in New Delhi.
In Washington, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemned Monday's "cowardly" attacks in the "strongest possible terms" but the White House reserved judgment on who was responsible.
Israel was in no doubt about whom to blame, after one of its embassy cars exploded in a ball of flames in central New Delhi and police defused a bomb affixed to another embassy vehicle in the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
"Iran is behind these attacks. It is the biggest exporter of terror in the world," Israeli Prime Minister Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told members of his right-wing Likud party in Jerusalem.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast rejected the accusations. "Iran condemns all acts of terrorism," he was quoted as saying by Al-Alam television.
In New Delhi, bystanders dragged the 42-year-old Israeli diplomat and her Indian driver from their burning car, after police said a hitman on a motorbike fixed a suspected magnet bomb to the silver Toyota as it slowed for a junction.
The diplomat is also the wife of Israel's defence attache in New Delhi, and was on her way to collect her children from school, officials said.
She was rushed to a private hospital where surgeons operated on multiple wounds including to her spine. "She is critical, but she is stable," the medical superintendent of the Primus Hospital, N.D. Khurana, told AFP.
An Israeli defence ministry spokesman in Jerusalem named the woman as Tal Yehoshua Koren and said she would be flown back to Israel "as soon as possible".
New Delhi communications lecturer Shashwati Goswami said he was opposite the car when it blew up.
"All of a sudden there was a boom and I saw that a car was engulfed in fire. I really got a shock," he told AFP.
In Tbilisi, an Israeli embassy employee found a bomb on his car and contacted police who were able to defuse the device before it detonated, according to Georgia's interior ministry.
The method used in the attacks resembles the tactics of assassins who have been targeting Iranian nuclear scientists with magnetic bombs placed on their vehicles.
Three scientists and a physicist have been killed in the past two years in murders blamed by Iran on Israeli and US secret services.
The bomb plots in New Delhi and Tbilisi also fell between anniversaries of the deaths of two top militants from Hezbollah, the militant group which has close ties to Iran. The anniversary sparks annual travel warnings from Israel.
Netanyahu said there had been a number of attempts to harm Israelis and Jews in recent months in places such as Thailand and Azerbaijan, in a series of plots he said were coordinated by Iran and Hezbollah.
Israel's Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said the latest attacks proved that Israelis both at home and abroad were "a target for terrorists" but that the country knew "how to identify those who are responsible".
India, which is no stranger to militant attacks, ordered security to be tightened at diplomatic missions and Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna voiced regret.
"India very strongly condemns such incidents and it is going to be fully investigated and the culprits will be brought to justice at the earliest," he said in a statement.
The last militant strike in New Delhi was in September when a bomb outside the High Court killed 14 people -- one of a series of blasts that has shaken public confidence in the government's counter-terror capabilities.
Source-Debka
Hizballah/Iranian bombing injures Israeli official's wife in New Delhi
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report February 13, 2012, 7:37 PM (GMT+02:00) Tags: Terror Hizballah attacks Israeli officials India Georgia Iran
Israel car blown up in New Delhi
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday, Feb. 12: “We know exactly who was responsible for the two attacks on Israeli officials abroad and they will not go unanswered.” He was responding two attacks on Israeli officials Monday by bombs attached to their cars. One blew up in New Delhi, injuring Talya Yehushua-Koren, wife of the Defense Ministry representative in India and three others. The other one was discovered before it exploded by the car’s owner, a local embassy employee in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. Israeli diplomats and foreign officials were ordered to stop using their own vehicles and be extra-vigilant after the two attacks.
The Innova SUV car bearing diplomatic number 109 CD 35 went up in flames after it exploded near a petrol pump, meters away from 7 Race Course Road – the Indian Prime Minister’s residence. Another car in the vicinity was also damaged. The Indian police cordoned off the area and declared a terror alert.
According to unconfirmed reports, the car was tailed by two men on a motorcycle. The man riding pillion threw in ‘something’, following which there was an explosion in the car. According to another report the explosion was remotely detonated.
In the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, a bomb attached to the car of a local Israeli embassy employee was discovered and defused before it exploded.
It is not known if the bomb was rigged to kill the employee or to blow up remotely against the embassy building after the vehicle was driven into the compound.
Sunday, Feb. 11, was the fourth anniversary of the death of Hizballah’s commander Imad Mughniye in Damascus. Tehran is marking the first anniversary of the assassinations of two of its nuclear scientists. Both attribute the attacks to Israel and have sworn vengeance.
Our counter-terror sources report that the attacks on Israeli officials used the same sticky (magentic) bomb method as was used to kill the Iranian scientists.
In the past month attacks on Israeli embassies in Thailand and Azerbaijan were thwarted with the help of local counter terror authorities’ cooperation.
Sticky Bomb
Hizballah/Iranian bombing injures Israeli official's wife in New Delhi
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report February 13, 2012, 7:37 PM (GMT+02:00) Tags: Terror Hizballah attacks Israeli officials India Georgia Iran
Israel car blown up in New Delhi
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Monday, Feb. 12: “We know exactly who was responsible for the two attacks on Israeli officials abroad and they will not go unanswered.” He was responding two attacks on Israeli officials Monday by bombs attached to their cars. One blew up in New Delhi, injuring Talya Yehushua-Koren, wife of the Defense Ministry representative in India and three others. The other one was discovered before it exploded by the car’s owner, a local embassy employee in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. Israeli diplomats and foreign officials were ordered to stop using their own vehicles and be extra-vigilant after the two attacks.
The Innova SUV car bearing diplomatic number 109 CD 35 went up in flames after it exploded near a petrol pump, meters away from 7 Race Course Road – the Indian Prime Minister’s residence. Another car in the vicinity was also damaged. The Indian police cordoned off the area and declared a terror alert.
According to unconfirmed reports, the car was tailed by two men on a motorcycle. The man riding pillion threw in ‘something’, following which there was an explosion in the car. According to another report the explosion was remotely detonated.
In the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, a bomb attached to the car of a local Israeli embassy employee was discovered and defused before it exploded.
It is not known if the bomb was rigged to kill the employee or to blow up remotely against the embassy building after the vehicle was driven into the compound.
Sunday, Feb. 11, was the fourth anniversary of the death of Hizballah’s commander Imad Mughniye in Damascus. Tehran is marking the first anniversary of the assassinations of two of its nuclear scientists. Both attribute the attacks to Israel and have sworn vengeance.
Our counter-terror sources report that the attacks on Israeli officials used the same sticky (magentic) bomb method as was used to kill the Iranian scientists.
In the past month attacks on Israeli embassies in Thailand and Azerbaijan were thwarted with the help of local counter terror authorities’ cooperation.
Sticky Bomb
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