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News of Interest
August 16 to August 29, 1998

TERRORISM

ISLAMIC GROUP THREATENS MORE ANTI-U.S. ATTACKS
Reuters August 19, 1998 Cairo

A group calling itself the Islamic International Front for
Fighting Jews and Crusaders has issued new threats against the
United States. The group had sent a statement to its Cairo
office saying that the "holy struggle operations'' carried out
recently against the United States would continue "until American
forces withdraw from the land of Muslims.''

The Islamic International Front statement referred to the Islamic
Army for the Liberation of the Holy Places without specifying
that the two groups were linked. The Islamic International Front
for Fighting Jews and Crusaders issued its first statement in
February in the form of a fatwa, or religious edict, from several
radical Islamist leaders, including Saudi-born Osama bin Laden.

QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS, AND MORE QUESTIONS
by Murray Kahl 8/23/98 Israel and Global News

The bombing of a Sudanese Pharmaceutical factory said to be
making components of chemical weapons, along with the bombing of
a terror camp in Afghanistan, raises many questions.

While the US administration claims to have initiated the bombings
based on information acquired recently, this information was
public knowledge as far back as February 1998. In February, the
House Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare released
a report entitled, "The Iraqi WMD Challenge Myths and Reality,
February 10, 1998." Samples of the information contained in the
report are as follows:

"The first joint Iraqi-Sudanese WMD project was facilities
initially readied for the handling and service of CW munitions
and ultimately the production of basic CW agents. The CW
facility was built during 1995 in an area near Wau, in the
Bahr-el-Ghazal=AD Province in south- western Sudan, some 300
kilometers from the Uganda border. The key CW facility is
located in a big fruit production factory taken over by the
military. Although the Wau facility is controlled by the
Sudanese military, Iraqi technicians work there to supervise
safety and security procedures. Iraqi officers are also in
charge of the gas storage site.

"Another unique center for the development of chemical weapons
for use by Islamist terrorists, mainly those affiliated with
Usamah bin-Ladin, is being built near the Islamic Center in Soba
(south west of Khartoum)."

At the time this report was released, a number of senior
officials in the Clinton Administration scoffed at the report and
publically said they had no knowledge of the information
contained. Sandy Berger, National Security Advisor, spoke
publically and denied all knowledge. And now we discover that
Pointer, a Jane's Intelligence Review publication, confirmed the
existence of Sudanese chemical facilities earlier this year, and
this week, Jane's Intelligence Review released information
provided by "United Nations arms inspectors and US intelligence
officials"-- concerning the transfer of Iraqi manufacturing
equipment for VX gas to the Sudan back in 1995.

Since this and much more was exposed in the Task Force Report, we
must ask why did the US Administration act now? What has changed
since February? Does the US administration need the intelligence
gathering capabilities of Jane's in order to formulate security
options? Why was the House's own intelligence, information
gathering body ignored?

As to the activities of Bin Laden, while Sandy Berger refuses to
elaborate on gathered intelligence, he did say on Public TV on
Aug. 21, that much of the information that prompted the US to act
was accumulated by monitoring telephone conversations of Bin
Laden and others over a period of time. Berger said the
information was conclusive and the US knew that Bin Laden planned
to attack American facilities. This appears illogical. If the
US knew in advance of planned attacks, why weren't the embassies
fortified and preemptive strikes launched to prevent the
bombings?

Adding to the arcane disposition of the information given to the
public is the AP release of August 21 concerning the results of
the FBI investigation of the bombing sites. FBI Director Louis
Freeh said on Friday that he had reached "no final conclusions"
about who bombed the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Was
the FBI Director kept in the dark about information gathered by
other intelligence agencies? If so why? And how could the US
administration expect Freeh to accomplish his task when vital
information is withheld from him?

The mystery heightens in drama when we also discover that Ossama
Bin Laden was not present and not targeted, according to Sandy
Berger, in this meeting of major terrorists of the world the US
claims to have bombed. The confusion exacerbates due to Bin
Laden's statement to a Pakistani newspaper saying that while he
was not responsible for the bombing of the embassies, he will now
respond to the US bombing by targeting Americans and presumably
Jews. Exactly what does Bin Laden hope to gain by this admission
and warning? Is he telling us that he was not responsible for the
bombing and simultaneously threatening the United States? Did the
US retaliate against a veteran terrorist who was actually
innocent of this specific crime? Did the US thus needlessly push
him to escalate his campaign of terrorism?

Justifying the strikes, the President attributed to Bin Laden a
series of terrorist operations conducted over several years,
including the 1995 attempt on the life of President Mubarak of
Egypt and the 1997 attempt on the life of Pope John-Paul II. If
Bin Laden's responsibility for these crimes had already been
proven, why didn't the US strike at him beforehand? Say, once his
responsibility was ascertained by the US government? And if the
US strikes were intended to retaliate for the bombing of the
Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, wouldn't it have been more
prudent to wait for the FBI's investigation to be completed?

Since all these actions by the US were to respond to acts of
terror against the US, we must examine the actions of the US over
the past few months and correlate actions as opposed to words.
The State Department released its latest "Patterns of Global
Terrorism" for 1997 in April 1998. The introduction has at least
one salient portion that is important for this analysis. There
are a few political imperatives delineated in the introduction
and the third says:

"Isolate and apply pressure on states that sponsor and support
terrorism to force them to change their behavior. As evidence of
the administration acting on their words, we read, President
Clinton signed the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act of 1996, which
deprives foreign companies of certain economic benefits in the
United States if they invest in the development of Iran and
Libya's energy sectors. The Act's objective is to deny revenue
to these state sponsors in advance of evidence that those states
are prepared to change their behavior. We believe that
sponsorship and support of international terrorist activities
should be discouraged by the international community, not
rewarded."

Brave words, bold words, until we examine the actions of the US,
both in the bombing and over the past few months.

We know that Bin Laden did not act alone and is only one of many
involved in terror acts against US interests. For details, read
the State Department release. Bin Laden, Iran, Sudan, and many
others commit acts that are state sponsored and these states
alone can apply pressure to halt these acts of horror. This is a
simple truism and will unfortunately be proven by predictable
acts of revenge. However, did the US strike at the sponsoring
nations, or were they rewarded in direct contrast to the words of
the State Department?

The sad answer is the sponsoring states were not attacked, and
they were rewarded. How rewarded? President Clinton unilaterally
removed, without congressional approval, the Iran and Libya
Sanctions Act for "national security reasons."

As many of us learned while in school, the only stupid question
is the one not asked. We have many questions if we are to
support the administration and not be swayed by the "Wag the Dog"
Scenario.

SPREAD OF ISLAM

SUDANESE TV ISSUES CURSE AGAINST US
IsraelWire- 8/26

Sudanese TV has called Moslems around the world to recite the El
Konot prayer, [which is similar to the Pulsa D'Neura prayer in
the Jewish religion, an ancient kabalistic prayer in which the
Angel of Death is called upon to strike a specific person]. The
Sudanese TV has called for the prayer to be recited against the
United States, following the recent bombing attack. The Sudanese
TV has repeatedly issued the call to members of Islam around the
world. It is reported that the prayer was used by the prophet
Mohammed in time of crisis.

The Pulsa D'Neura prayer was recited one-month prior to the
assassination of Yitzchak Rabin. The persons who recited the
prayer, although the subject of ridicule at the time, were
arrested for their actions following the assassination.

PAKISTAN WANTS TO ENFORCE ISLAMIC LAW
Weekend News Today Source: Nando Times Aug 28, 1998

Facing pressure from Pakistan's religious parties, Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif said Friday the Koran and the traditions of the
Prophet Mohammed would be the ''supreme law'' of the land, AFP
reported. In a televised address to the National Assembly,
Sharif said the solution to problems such as corruption,
incompetence, and social and economic ills was to follow the
tenets of Islam. He said the new system would stress observance
of daily prayers, an improved system of Islamic charity tax known
as Zakat and steps to suppress ''evil practices'' in Pakistan,
which was established on the basis of Islam. Following Sharif's
speech, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Yasin Wattoo presented
a bill proposing a constitutional amendment empowering the
government to take the necessary steps to enforce Islamic law, or
Sharia.

APOSTASY AND ECUMENISM

ISRAEL: LESBIAN COUPLE DEMANDS GOVERNMENT RECOGNIZE THEIR FAMILY
Weekend News Today Source: IsraelWire Aug 23, 1998

A lesbian couple has filed a petition with the High Court of
Justice, asking that their living arrangement be recognized by
the Ministry of the Interior as a legal family unit. The Greek
woman, living with her Israeli lover, are raising a girl
together, and stipulated in the petition they are a family unit
in every sense of the word, and the Greek woman should be granted
permission to remain in the country as the spouse of her Israeli
lover. The attorney for the two told the court the women did
have a wedding ceremony and are indeed a couple and should be
recognized as such by the government.

WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES CELEBRATES 50 YEARS OF ECUMENICAL WORK
Geneva (ENI).

The World Council of Churches - the world's biggest ecumenical
organisation - is celebrating the 50th anniversary of its
foundation. The WCC was founded on 23 August 1948 at an
inaugural assembly in the Dutch city of Amsterdam. Today, 24
August, staff at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, where the WCC's
central offices are located, took part in a special service to
mark the 50 years of the ecumenical movement.

POPE ATTACKS 'FALSE PROPHETS' OF NEW AGE
>From Richard Owen - Rome - London Times 8/26/98

Thge Pope yesterday launched an attack on New Age movements and
sects, saying that they "peddle unreal dreams" and alienate
people from reality.

The Pope, who is 78, is preparing an encyclical - the thirteenth
of his reign - on the failings of modern philosophy and the
dangers posed to established religion by New Age sects, many of
which draw on Eastern religions. The full text of the
encyclical, provisionally entitled Faith and Reason, is not
expected until October.

In a message to Communion and Liberation, the right-wing Catholic
youth organisation now holding its annual conference at Rimini,
the Pope said the young were susceptible to "illusory ideologies"
which appeared to offer spiritual depth but, in fact, represented
a flight from reality.

The Pope said the result was often "tragic alienation" which
caused immense suffering. Unlike Christianity, neither science
nor philosophical movements could provide a clear moral
framework. Only the teachings of Christ could "help people to
strive for the absolute".

The Pope's uncompromising message comes after the Vatican's
condemnation last weekend of the writings of the late Anthony de
Mello, a Jesuit from Bombay whose attempts to fuse elements of
Christianity, Buddhism and Taoism made him a guru for many New
Age enthusiasts. Vatican officials said de Mello had committed
heresy by suggesting that Jesus was merely one of many spiritual
masters.

VATICAN MAN PUTS FAITH IN ET AND HIS FRIENDS
By Ruth Gledhill Religion Correspondent - London Times 8/29/98

Extra-terrestrials exist and there is no conflict between a
belief in aliens and the Christian faith, a Vatican theologian
close to the Pope says. Father Corrado Balducci, of the
Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples, claims in a book
about alien abductions to be published next week, that it is
wrong to assert that reports of encounters with aliens are not
credible.

"It is reasonable to believe and affirm that extra-terrestrials
exist," he says. "Their existence can no longer be denied, for
there is too much evidence for the existence of
extra-terrestrials and flying saucers." Father Balducci says that
clues such as the existence of flying saucers indicate that
extra-terrestrials are further evolved than humans. In an
interview to be published as the appendix to Confirmation, Father
Balducci says that even if extra-terrestrials were discovered who
were superior to humans, it would not call into question the
teachings of Christianity. He refers to a passage in the New
Testament where St Paul refers to Christ as the king of the
universe, not just the king of the world. "This means that
everything in the universe, including extra-terrestrials and UFOs
are reconcilable with God."

Father Balducci, a renowned exorcist and expert on demonology,
has written two books on the Devil. Listed in the Vatican
directory as "priest of honour" since 1964, he is an official
member of the papal household or family. Father Balducci says
his first question to an alien would be what their concept of God
was. But he goes on to say: "It is very important to lend
credence to the eye-witness accounts, but we must be very careful
to ensure that they are authentic. I have also heard of people
who have claimed to have had contacts, but who unfortunately were
not mentally sound."

A spokesman for the Catholic Media Office in London said last
night: "The fundamental creation message relates to humans here
on earth. If aliens were shown to exist, this would not cast
doubt on the veracity of the Gospel. But we would have to ask
whether the Christian atonement was applicable to them."

PERSECUTION AND ANTI-SEMITISM

ANTI-SEMITISM HITS CALIF. CITY
By Jordan Lite Berkeley, Calif. (AP)

Smashed storefronts, swastikas on the sidewalk. It's not the
kind of reaction a vocal bookstore owner expected in this, the
birthplace of the free speech movement. But in the six months
he's been speaking out against loitering on famous Telegraph
Avenue, Andy Ross has sustained thousands of dollars in broken
windows and the fear that he can't predict the next attack.

Last week, he discovered a Star of David painted on the sidewalk
in front of Cody's Books and a crucifix drawn on a window. He
had already received an anonymous postcard calling him a
``cancerous Jew.'' ``When all else fails, there is still the
swastika and the broken glass in the night,'' Ross said at a
rally outside his store Thursday.

CATHOLICS ERECT MORE CROSSES AT AUSCHWITZ
Int'l Christian Embassy Jerusalem 8/24/98

Roman Catholic activists have intensified a cross-planting
campaign outside the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, erected
more than 50 large crosses ahead of a meeting of bishops called
to deal with the sensitive issue. The addition of the 50 crosses
- some as large as 12 feet high - to many others already outside
the Auschwitz site is in defiance of appeals made by the Polish
church and state authorities. Those involved are radical
Catholics, supporters of fringe nationalist organisations,
miscellaneous right-wingers, and even skinheads.

Jewish groups object to any religious symbols being placed near
the camp, where 1,5 million people, about 90 of them Jewish, were
murdered during the Holocaust. The leader of the campaigners,
Kazimierz Switon, said he was prepared "to set myself ablaze" if
Polish bishops, scheduled to meet tomorrow, demand that the
crosses be removed. The Israeli government has asked the Polish
government to remove the crosses and the country's chief rabbis
have written to Polish-born Pope John Paul, urging him to
intervene.

Y2K PROBLEM

500 DAYS TO FIX MILLENNIUM COMPUTER GLITCH: DISASTER OR
INCONVENIENCE?
August 19, 1998 By Ted Bridis, Associated Press Washington (AP)

Inside a suburban home darkened by a power outage from a summer
thunderstorm, the top bureaucrat hired by President Clinton to
make sure the nation's computers survive past 2000 was just
trying to survive the evening's muggy weather. Lightning had
knocked out electricity to the neighborhood, leaving John
Koskinen and his wife without air conditioning. Inside, with
flickering candles casting the only light, the temperature and
humidity climbed.

"You know,'' Koskinen recalls telling his wife, "this could be
what it's like on January 1st, 2000.''

With just 500 days remaining, the coming 2000 looms almost
mythically, largely because of a decision made decades ago by
computer programmers. Left uncorrected, the Year 2000 computer
flaw, commonly known as Y2K, could threaten the world's
electrical grids, its financial markets, its water supplies and
its air-traffic control systems. It probably won't affect the
computer chips in your television or VCR, and your car or pickup
probably will start, but the traffic lights or the subway might
be fouled on the way to work.

SURVEY: JAPANESE COMPANIES NOT READY FOR MILLENNIUM COMPUTER
PROBLEMS
August 28, 1998 Tokyo (AP)

Most listed companies in Japan are still unprepared to prevent
their computers from failing when the millennium arrives, the
Tokyo Stock Exchange says. Of the 1,549 companies that replied
to a survey conducted by the TSE, 1,258, or 81 percent, say they
are still trying to reprogram their computer systems to protect
themselves from the glitch, known as the Year 2000, or Y2K,
problem, the exchange said Thursday.

In the TSE survey, 16 listed companies replied they have not
begun addressing the Year 2000 problem at all, and 48 companies
say they are still investigating whether they need to do so, the
spokesman said. A total of 79 companies have decided that it is
unnecessary for them to prepare for millennium bug problems, he
said. All 97 of the banks that answered the survey say they
haven't completed work to fix the glitch. Five listed banks
declined to respond.

COMING ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

THE MELTDOWN OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
by Patrick J. Buchanan August 14, 1998

As the talking heads of the cable channels chatter on about what
Bill Clinton should tell the grand jury -- the truth is among the
options being discussed -- an event of epochal significance is
taking place beyond our shores. The Global Economy is careening
toward disaster, and the Clintonites seem clueless about how to
stop it.

Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's June intervention to rescue the
Japanese yen failed. The yen is now at an eight-year low against
the dollar and sinking. Tokyo's stock market is 60 percent below
its high a decade ago and falling, and Japan's banks are sitting
on perhaps $1 trillion in bad debt. Asia's mightiest economy is
shrinking and incapable of helping pull the continent out of the
maelstrom.

China is watching the yen slide with rising alarm. With the
currencies of Free Asia far below where they were a year ago,
Free Asia's exports are now undercutting China's. As the U.S.
market takes an irreplaceable 8 percent of China's gross domestic
product, Beijing is under pressure to devalue the yuan. But if
China devalues, the peg that ties the Hong Kong dollar to the
U.S. dollar at a fixed rate of exchange will snap. Another
sweeping round of devaluations will roll across Asia. Should
that happen, Asian governments, unable to buy dollars to service
their foreign debt, would default, and Asian companies, unable to
pay off dollar-denominated loans, would tumble into bankruptcy.
As in America in the '30s, Asia's financial collapse would be
followed by a depression, and then would come the political
eruptions.

In Russia, we are almost there. The latest $22.6 billion IMF
bailout bought Moscow about three weeks. Its stock market is
down 80 percent in 10 months, and the yield on Russia's debt is
at 150 percent -- another way of saying Boris Yeltsin's regime is
on the verge of default. In Europe, the major stock markets
have seen double-digit falls since mid-July record highs. German
banks, heavily exposed in Asia and Russia, have been hardest hit.
A series of defaults across Asia -- Indonesia is on the brink --
could trigger a banking crisis in Japan and Europe that could
cause upheaval in the European Union.

In Brazil, stocks have fallen 20 percent in five weeks, and there
is immense pressure for a devaluation, so as not to lose export
markets to Asia. Should China and Hong Kong devalue, the Latin
dominoes will be next, unless, of course, South Africa, the
largest economy in sub-Sahara Africa, gets there first. As OPEC
oil is priced in dollars, and Asia is both in recession and
starved for dollars, the world oil market is drying up. A glut
has appeared, and oil prices have fallen, in real terms, below
where they were before the Arab oil embargo of 1973. Great news
for us, but major producers like Russia, Mexico, Venezuela and
Nigeria have seen their oil revenue cut in half, with nothing to
replace the lost income. Budget deficits have soared, and the
currency speculators can smell the weakness a world away.

RUSSIAN LEADERS HAGGLE AS MARKETS TREMBLE
Reuters August 28, 1998 Moscow

Russia's new government bargained for support from its political
opponents Friday, as global markets trembled at the threat of
economic meltdown in Moscow. President Boris Yeltsin returned to
the Kremlin after days of isolation at a rural retreat.

His acting Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin anxiously lobbied
Russia's parliament ahead of its vote Monday on whether to
confirm him as premier. The Communist-dominated lower house has
demanded concessions in return for its support which would
restore some Soviet-style central control over the economy
taking it in the opposite direction to the reformist path the
West demands as a condition of financial aid.

Russia's Central Bank has suspended trade in the rouble after it
plunged against the dollar and Russians are besieging banks in
the hope of withdrawing life savings and swapping them for the
U.S. currency. A black market reminiscent of Soviet times has
started to mushroom on Russian streets. Share prices sank to
historic lows Friday.

The shock waves from Moscow reverberated through global financial
markets, fearful that a Russian collapse might unleash a
worldwide economic downturn. Asian markets crumpled after a
slump on Wall Street and Japanese shares ended at a 12-year low.

WE'RE SINKING. BUT DON'T WORRY!
By Eric Margolis 27 August 1998

Canada's collapsing dollar hit a sickening new low this week,
falling below US 64 cents. Confused Canadians became dimly aware
their assets and savings had lost over 10% in value since
February. A slight frown of concern crossed the face of the
prime minister, who had been cheerfully promising all was well.

After insisting for months the dollar's crash was good for
Canada's economy, the PM and finance minister abruptly changed
their tune, allowing there might be a `minor' problem. But don't
worry, said the man who helped Trudeau transform Canada from a
nation wealthier than Switzerland into a financial hobo, we'll do
something -like cutting taxes - in six months, or so, maybe.

MARK OF THE BEAST

FEDERAL COURT BACKS THUMBPRINTING FOR ID
July 29, 1998 Copyright 1998 American Banker, Inc.

Recognizing the threat to banks from fraud, a federal judge has
given the industry permission to fingerprint some consumers who
cash checks. Judge Bernice B. Donald of the U.S. District
Court in Memphis ruled last month that three banks did not break
the law when they required a consumer, who was not an account
holder, to include his thumbprint next to his signature when he
cashed checks drawn from their banks.

"The banks were entitled to impose the requirement of a
reasonable identification upon any person making a presentment,"
she ruled. The plaintiff "makes no rational argument that
thumbprinting is not reasonable."

Industry officials applauded the ruling. "This is a first," said
Michael F. Crotty, deputy general counsel for litigation at the
American Bankers Association. "If upheld and followed elsewhere,
this essentially immunizes from challenge the increasingly
commonplace practice of requiring thumbprints."

The best way to prevent fraud is to use biometrics, such as
finger or iris scans. These tests compare the customer to a
record on file, making them ideal for workers without bank
accounts who cash payroll checks regularly. A quick scan would
eliminate the chance of fraud, he said.

CHINA ESTABLISHES HUGE 'SMART CARD' PROJECT
By the Associated Press New York

China's vast emerging consumer market is to become the most
ambitious testing ground to date for "smart cards," the plastic
payment cards that have an embedded computer chip. The People's
Bank of China plans to issue 1.5 million to 2 million of the
computerized cards next year. Schlumberger Ltd., the New York
City-based technology and oil industry services business, this
week announced it will provide the cards and the electronic
machines that process them, as well as train consumers and clerks
to use them. The Bank of China had engaged Visa International
last year to develop national and international smart card
standards for the Chinese market. "China is now embarking on the
largest smart bank card project in the world," said Irwin
Pfister, executive vice president of Schlumberger Test &
Transactions, based in San Jose, Calif.

MCDONALDS RESTAURANTS INSTALLING SMART-CARDS EVERYWHERE
Weekend News Today Source: CNet News.com Aug 24, 1998

In a boost to smart cards in Europe and possibly elsewhere, more
than 870 McDonald's restaurants in Germany are installing
smart-card terminals so visitors can download electronic cash
onto smart cards , then spend it at the fast-food outlet and
elsewhere. Previously, smart-card users had to load cash at a
bank or an ATM machine. "By moving into stores, they are making
it more convenient to use," said Alistair Duncan, VeriFone's
director of smart card business development, noting similar smart
card activities in the United Kingdom, Holland, and Sweden. In a
McDonald's Germany pilot earlier this year, 55 restaurants
reported strong usage. During the trial's first ten weeks, more
than 30,000 transactions were recorded. Overall, nearly 40
million smart cards have been distributed in Germany since early
1997, VeriFone said.

PROFESSOR CLAIMS TO RECEIVE FIRST CHIP IMPLANT
Reuters August 25, 1998 Reading, England

Professor Kevin Warwick claimed on Tuesday to be the first person
in the world to have a computer chip surgically implanted into
his body. Warwick told a news conference that a glass capsule
about one inch long and one-tenth of an inch wide containing an
electromagnetic coil and a silicon chip was inserted into his arm
on Monday.

"It is a research experiment. I don't know how long we will
leave the implant in but it's looking at what's possible now in
terms of communicating between a computer and myself,'' Warwick
said.

Warwick is head of the Cybernetics Department at the University
of Reading. He demonstrated the chip in action by walking
through the front door of his department.

"Good morning, Professor Warwick. You have five new E mails,''
said a computerized voice activated by the inserted chip.

"This is a technology where there are big positives but there are
also big negatives. Do we want to hand over control to machinery
or to have buildings telling us what we can do or can't do?''
"I'm really looking at what's technically possible. I'm excited
about the future prospects, particularly the human body
communicating and interacting with a computer. There are a lot
of exciting possibilities.''

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