Edward Snowden’s NSA surveillance revelations strain China-US relations | World news | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/13/snowden-revelations-nsa-china-relations
On a visit to Washington where he met the US secretary of state, John Kerry, [the British foreign secretary William] Hague said: “No two countries in the world work more closely to protect the privacy of their citizens than the United Kingdom and the United States.”
LES CIBLES SECRÈTES DE BARACK OBAMA- http://www.parismatch.com/Actu/International/Les-cibles-secretes-de-Barack-Obama-517819
Le Guardian publie en exclusivité un document ‘top secret’ très embarrassant pour la Maison Blanche : une directive signée par Barack Obama où figure une liste de cibles potentielle de #cyber-attaques contre des pays étrangers. Ce document de 18 pages daté du 20 octobre 2012, vante les mérites des « Offensive Cyber Effects Operations (OCEO) » susceptible d’offrir « les capacité uniques et non conventionnelles susceptibles de faire avancer les objectifs nationaux américains à travers le monde ».
Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks | World news | guardian.co.uk
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/07/obama-china-targets-cyber-overseas
Barack Obama has ordered his senior national security and intelligence officials to draw up a list of potential overseas targets for US cyber-attacks, a top secret presidential directive obtained by the Guardian reveals.
The 18-page Presidential Policy Directive 20, issued in October last year but never published, states that what it calls Offensive Cyber Effects Operations (OCEO) “can offer unique and unconventional capabilities to advance US national objectives around the world with little or no warning to the adversary or target and with potential effects ranging from subtle to severely damaging”.
It says the government will “identify potential targets of national importance where OCEO can offer a favorable balance of effectiveness and risk as compared with other instruments of national power”.
The directive also contemplates the possible use of cyber actions inside the US, though it specifies that no such domestic operations can be conducted without the prior order of the president, except in cases of emergency.
The aim of the document was “to put in place tools and a framework to enable government to make decisions” on cyber actions, a senior administration official told the Guardian.
The administration published some declassified talking points from the directive in January 2013, but those did not mention the stepping up of America’s offensive capability and the drawing up of a target list.
Obama’s move to establish a potentially aggressive cyber warfare doctrine will heighten fears over the increasing militarization of the internet.
The directive’s publication comes as the president plans to confront his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at a summit in California on Friday over alleged Chinese attacks on western targets.
Even before the publication of the directive, Beijing had hit back against US criticism, with a senior official claiming to have “mountains of data” on American cyber-attacks he claimed were every bit as serious as those China was accused of having carried out against the US.
En complément de http://seenthis.net/messages/146382
America’s hidden agenda in Syria’s war - The National
http://www.thenational.ae/news/world/middle-east/americas-hidden-agenda-in-syrias-war
Then, by the rebel commander’s account, the discussion took an unexpected turn.
The Americans began discussing the possibility of drone strikes on Al Nusra camps inside Syria and tried to enlist the rebels to fight their fellow insurgents.
“The US intelligence officer said, ’We can train 30 of your fighters a month, and we want you to fight Al Nusra’,” the rebel commander recalled.
Opposition forces should be uniting against Mr Al Assad’s more powerful and better-equipped army, not waging war among themselves, the rebel commander replied. The response from a senior US intelligence officer was blunt.
“I’m not going to lie to you. We’d prefer you fight Al Nusra now, and then fight Assad’s army. You should kill these Nusra people. We’ll do it if you don’t,” the rebel leader quoted the officer as saying.
US official: Israel did not notify US before Syria raids | JPost | Israel News
http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/US-official-Israel-did-not-notify-US-before-Syria-raids-312164
The US was not given any warning before air strikes in Syria against what Western and Israeli officials say were weapons headed for Hezbollah militants, a US intelligence official said on Sunday.
Without confirming that Israel was behind the attacks, the US intelligence official said that the United States was essentially told of the air raids “after the fact” and was notified as the bombs went off.
Selon Micah Zenko, qui donne ce lien http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/30/opinion/oe-zenko30 , c’est probablement le cas.
False Flag Chemical Attack on Syria - DailyCensored.com - Breaking Censored News, World, Independent, Liberal News | DailyCensored.com - Breaking Censored News, World, Independent, Liberal News
http://www.dailycensored.com/false-flag-chemical-attack-on-syria
It doesn’t surprise. On April 27, WikiLeaks Supporters Forum headlined “Syria False Flag Chemical Weapons – Obama sets up America for invasion,” saying:
US intelligence “actively promot(es)” a false flag attack. Assad’s wrongfully blamed. Obama’s heading closer to full-scale intervention.
Britain’s “David Cameron demonstrates a willingness to assist the US military and Intelligence agenda.” UK controlled “BBC obediently falls into line, assisting in disseminating (false) information.”
US media scoundrels are worst of all. More on that below.
A previous article discussed hacked emails. They revealed Washington’s approved plan to stage a false flag Syrian chemical attack.
Secret US documents show Brennan’s ‘no civilian drone deaths’ claim was false: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2013/04/11/secret-us-documents-show-brennans-no-civilian-drone-deaths-cl
US intelligence officials were aware that at least one civilian had died in drone strikes in Pakistan during 2011, despite claims to the contrary made by the man now running the Central Intelligence Agency.
In June 2011, John Brennan, at the time President Obama’s chief counter terrorism adviser, stated publicly that for ‘almost a year’ no civilian had died in US drone strikes in Pakistan.
But leaked US intelligence documents obtained by news agency McClatchy show this was not true.
An Inconvenient Truth
Finally, proof that the United States has lied in the drone wars. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/10/an_inconvenient_truth_drones
Jonathan Landay, national security reporter at McClatchy Newspapers, has provided the first analysis of drone-strike victims that is based upon internal, top-secret U.S intelligence reports http://seenthis.net/messages/129176.
It is the most important reporting on U.S. drone strikes to date because Landay, using U.S. government assessments, plainly demonstrates that the claim repeatedly made by President Obama and his senior aides — that targeted killings are limited only to officials, members, and affiliates of al Qaeda who pose an imminent threat of attack on the U.S. homeland — is false.
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It is important to note that the claim of a single civilian casualty is based on the CIA’s interpretation that any military-age males who are behaving suspiciously can be lawfully targeted . No U.S. government official has ever openly acknowledged the practice of such “signature strikes” because it is so clearly at odds with the bedrock principle of distinction required for using force within the laws of armed conflict. According to the documents reviewed by Landay, even the U.S. intelligence community does not necessarily know who it has killed; it is forced to use fuzzy categories like “other militants” and “foreign fighters.”
Some of the drone strikes that Landay describes, such as a May 22, 2007 attack requested by Pakistan’s intelligence service to support Pakistani troops in combat, do not appear in the databases maintained by the New America Foundation, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, or Long Wars Journal . This should strengthen the concerns of many analysts about the accuracy of reporting from Pakistan’s tribal areas. It also suggests that there may be a few additional targeted killing efforts of which we know nothing.
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...based on the Obama administration’s patterns of behavior, the Department of Justice will assuredly target Landay and his sources for leaking classified information. While the DOJ has refrained from plugging the many selective leaks by anonymous administration officials that praise the precision and efficacy of drone strikes, it has sought more criminal prosecutions of leaks in Obama’s first term than during all previous presidential administrations combined. (...) Absolutely nothing in Landay’s reporting reveals the CIA’s sources and methods for determining who had been killed.
Three key lessons from the Obama administration’s drone lies - http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/11/three-lessons-obama-drone-lies
(1) The Obama administration often has no idea who they are killing.
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(2) Whisteblowers are vital for transparency and accountability, which is precisely why the Obama administration is waging a war on them.
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(3) Secrecy ensures both government lies and abuses of power.
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Sequestering the War on Terror : The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/04/sequestering-the-war-on-terror.html
Questions capitales:
The logic is deeply troubling. Are drone strikes a diplomatic chit? Do we call someone dangerous because he gets in the way of what we’ve persuaded ourselves we need to do somewhere? If it was necessary to get a foreign leader to help us with a war, could we, by the same reasoning, kill someone who was merely a political threat—or a political figure who, say, by rallying domestic opposition to drone strikes in a foreign country, we’d decided was helping Al Qaeda?
Rights Groups Question Legality of Targeted Killing - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/us/politics/rights-groups-question-legality-of-targeted-killing.html
.... efforts on Thursday by Representative Jan Schakowsky, Democrat of Illinois, to get John O. Brennan, formerly the president’s counterterrorism adviser and now the C.I.A. director, to discuss strike policies during a hearing of the House Intelligence Committee went nowhere.
(...)
Ms. Schakowsky was prompted to question Mr. Brennan in part by an article this week by McClatchy News Service reporting that it had obtained classified government documents showing that the drone strikes had killed hundreds of low-level suspected militants whose identities were not known. The article suggested that the documents undercut assertions by Mr. Obama and his aides.
“There are a lot of things that are printed in the press that are inaccurate, in my mind, and misrepresent the facts,” Mr. Brennan said. When Ms. Schakowsky pressed the point, he said, “I’m not going to engage in any type of discussion on that here today, congresswoman.”
The 2013 DNI on Iran’s Nuclear Program | IPS Writers in the Blogosphere
http://www.ips.org/blog/ips/the-2013-dni-on-irans-nuclear-program
“We judge Iran’s nuclear decisionmaking is guided by a cost-benefit approach, which offers the international community opportunities to influence Tehran…
Twitter / GarethPorter : What Clapper is saying, between between the lines (and contra Netanyahu), is that Iran’s retaliatory threat has to be taken seriously.
https://twitter.com/GarethPorter/status/311539618493394944
Asia Times Online :: Syria : Waiting for someone named Obama
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/NJ16Ag01.html
Even as German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, who was on a visit to China, diverted himself to Istanbul in a mission on Saturday aimed at tamping down Turkish-Syrian tensions, Der Spiegel calmly reported that the information about the “non-civilian cargo”, which led to the interception of a Syrian aircraft by the Turkish Air Force the previous Wednesday night, was actually passed on to Ankara by US intelligence.
Furthermore, Der Spiegel disclosed authoritatively, “Ankara only forced the plane to land after close contact with its Western allies.”
The question naturally arises: Was it an incident that had been choreographed by Washington with a view to change the dynamics of the Syrian situation? Stranger ways have been found to kick-start wars in history. Or did the United States have another motive?
The pattern of the rhetoric may give some clues. Russia, of course, vehemently and promptly denied that it had violated international law. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, in fact, gave a detailed explanation as if he were pleading with the Turks not to be taken in by whatever they might have heard:
In the wake of all sorts of insinuations spread in connection with the Syrian jet’s landing, I’d like to stress we don’t have secrets in this respect. We’ve cleared out the situation and the truth is that, quite naturally, the jet was not carrying any weapons and certainly couldn’t be carrying them.
The cargo was supplied by a legal Russian supplier in a legitimate way to a legal customer. It’s electric engineering equipment for a radar station, a dual-purpose equipment that isn’t forbidden by any international conventions. Airway bills for it were filled out in strict compliance with international requirements. Transportation of these cargoes by civil-aviation jets is normal practice, and this is confirmed by the fact the Turkish authorities offered the crew either to change the route or to land in Ankara before it entered Turkey’s airspace.The captain decided to land because he knew the crew wasn’t doing anything illegal.
Interestingly, the Turkish side has pointedly refused to take issue with Moscow’s narrative. The Turkish statement was actually evasive and loquacious - to the effect that Ankara had acted on the basis of “information that the plane was carrying cargo of a nature that could not possibly be in compliance with the rules of civil aviation”.
Assassination Nation : Fifty Years of US Targeted ‘Kill Lists’: From the Phoenix Program to Predator Drones | Doug Noble (CounterPunch)
►http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/19/assassination-nation/print
In fact, US assassination and targeted killing, with presidential approval, has been going on covertly for at least half a century. Ironically, all this drone killing now offers us a new opportunity: to pry open the Pandora’s box hiding long-held secrets of covert US assassination and targeted killing, and to expose them to the light of day. What we would find is that the only things new in the latest, more publicized revelations about kill lists and assassinations are the use of drones, the president’s hands-on approach in vetting targets, and the global scope of the drone killing. Those of us in the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones, Code Pink and other groups protesting US drones for years have correctly focused on the use of drones as illegal, immoral and strategically counterproductive. We have abhorred the schizophrenic ease of remote killing, the uniquely frightening horror of a drone strike, and the unavoidable (even intentional) killing of countless civilian “terrorist suspects” in “signature strikes.” We have also warned of the proliferation of drones in countries around the globe and of their procurement by US police forces and border patrols, for surveillance and “non-lethal” targeting. (...) Source: (...)
À lire absolument dans Counterpunch : les « assassinats ciblés » tels que le scandale des drones et de la « kill list » les révèlent, ça dure depuis au moins 50 ans, et cet article nous plonge dans cette histoire occulte et sordide.
►http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/19/assassination-nation/print
In fact, US assassination and targeted killing, with presidential approval, has been going on covertly for at least half a century. Ironically, all this drone killing now offers us a new opportunity: to pry open the Pandora’s box hiding long-held secrets of covert US assassination and targeted killing, and to expose them to the light of day. What we would find is that the only things new in the latest, more publicized revelations about kill lists and assassinations are the use of drones, the president’s hands-on approach in vetting targets, and the global scope of the drone killing.
Those of us in the Upstate Coalition to Ground the Drones, Code Pink and other groups protesting US drones for years have correctly focused on the use of drones as illegal, immoral and strategically counterproductive. We have abhorred the schizophrenic ease of remote killing, the uniquely frightening horror of a drone strike, and the unavoidable (even intentional) killing of countless civilian “terrorist suspects” in “signature strikes.” We have also warned of the proliferation of drones in countries around the globe and of their procurement by US police forces and border patrols, for surveillance and “non-lethal” targeting.
But drones are not the only, or even the most important, concern. It’s the targeted killing itself, past and present. In this article I start to unravel what the latest demands for transparency should lead us to investigate fully: the fifty year history of US assassination and targeted killing that has resulted, quite directly, in the present moment. Those who are mortified by the latest revelations of Obama’s kill list have much to learn from a more comprehensive, historical perspective on US killing around the globe.
Patrick Cockburn : America is deluded by its drone-warfare propaganda (The Independent)
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/patrick-cockburn-america-is-deluded-by-its-dronewarfare-propaganda-78
As the US and its allies ponder what to do about Syria, one suggestion advanced by the protagonists of armed intervention is to use unmanned drones to attack Syrian government targets. The proposal is a measure of the extraordinary success of the White House, CIA and Defense Department in selling the drone as a wonder weapon despite all the evidence to the contrary. The attraction of the drone for President Obama and his administration five months before the presidential election is self-evident. The revelation that he personally selected targets from the top ranks of al-Qa’ida for assassination by remote control shows the President as tough and unrelenting in destroying America’s enemies. (...) Source: The Independent
Pakistan jails doctor over bin Laden hunt
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012/05/2012523111832779910.html
A Pakistani doctor accused of helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden has been sentenced to 33 years in prison, Pakistani television channels and a local government official say.
The official said on Wednesday that Shakil Afridi was charged with treason for running a fake vaccination campaign that helped the US intelligence agency track the al-Qaeda chief in a northwestern city, where he was killed in a US special-forces raid.
U.S. senators penalize Pakistan for jailing doctor who aided CIA
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/05/24/pakistan-usa-doctor-idINDEE84N0II20120524
U.S. senators scandalized by Pakistan’s jailing of a doctor for helping the CIA find Osama bin Laden voted on Thursday to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million — one million for each year in the doctor’s sentence.
“It’s arbitrary, but the hope is that Pakistan will realize we are serious,” said Senator Richard Durbin after the unanimous 30-0 vote by the Senate Appropriations Committee.
“It’s outrageous that they (the Pakistanis) would say a man who helped us find Osama bin Laden is a traitor,” said Durbin, the Senate’s number two Democrat.
Hollywood in Homs and Idlib? | Al Akhbar English
http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/sandbox/hollywood-homs-and-idlib
But when it was over, we learned a few things. Contrary to reports during the “siege,” there were only a few thousand civilians in Baba Amr at the time – all others had already evacuated the area. The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) and its local partner, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC), had been administering assistance at nine separate points in Homs for the duration. They would not enter the neighborhoods of Baba Amr and Insha’at because of continuing violence on “both sides.”
The armed opposition fighters holed up in Homs during that month were, therefore, unlikely to be there in a purely “protective” capacity. As American journalist Nir Rosen points out, what happened in Homs on February 3 was a government response to direct and repeated “provocation:”
“Yesterday opposition fighters defeated the regime checkpoint at the Qahira roundabout and they seized a tank or armored personnel carrier. This followed similar successes against the Bab Dreib checkpoint and the Bustan al Diwan checkpoint. In response to this last provocation yesterday the regime started shelling with mortars from the Qalaa on the high ground and the State Security headquarters in Ghota.”
This account contrasts starkly with the oft-repeated notion that armed opposition groups act primarily to protect “peaceful demonstrators” and civilians.
[…]
It reminds me of August 2011 news reports of warships shelling the coastal city of Latakia. Three separate sources - two opposition figures from the city and an independent western journalist - later insisted there were no signs of shelling. It was also the first time I learned from Syrians that you can burn rubber tires on rooftops to simulate the after-effects of exploded shells.
Panetta: Iran undecided over nuclear bomb
http://www.aljazeera.com/video/americas/2012/02/20122170514625396.html
Leon Panetta, the United States defence secretary, has told US legislators that while Iran is enriching uranium for its nuclear programme, there are currently no indications that Tehran has decided to develop atomic weapons.
Vu dans le flux un outil qui sert aux échanges instantanés ici : #OTR - permet le chiffrement, outils qui existent déjà depuis plusieurs années. voir http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr - cryptographie vs. DPI c’est une des grandes oppositions qui montent alors que l’existence d’une surveillance approfondie des communications est de plus en plus documentée dans tous les pays ; le chiffrement et la #cryptographie faisant l’objet de nombreuses présentations sur le 28c3, dans ses aspects techniques comme politiques et sociaux.
Va commencer d’ailleurs une présentation de la censure de TOR par certains gouvernements :
http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4800.en.html
Sauf erreur c’est aussi une des seules présentations autour des « Printemps arabes » - dont peu d’acteurs sont référencés au Congrès (peu présents aussi, à ma connaissance)
Demain est annoncé du sport avec la présentation d’un Français, Eric Filliol, qui dit avoir démontré des vulnérabilités du réseau TOR http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4581.en.html
Présentation qui a été faite (peut-être dans une autre version) au Brésil en octobre
https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/researchers-demonstrate-tor-network-hijack-method-102411
et dont les tenants et aboutissants sont largement discutés : http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=310737
et contestés par la Fondation TOR
https://blog.torproject.org/blog/rumors-tors-compromise-are-greatly-exaggerated
Le débat est intéressant car il souligne les enjeux d’outils qui passaient peu à la connaissance du grand public par le passé. Alors que TOR a par exemple été très employé dans le cours des « Révolutions arabes » - c’est aussi un outil très présent dans la galaxie Wikileaks et ses suites. Il semblerait qu’en dépit de ce qu’affirme Filliol TOR reste un outil de choix, davantage que les VPN qui sont susceptibles d’être compromis à des niveaux multiples
voir là : http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-12-22/china-based-hacking-of-760-companies-shows-cyber-cold-war.html
et
http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/security/3325422/ibahn-denies-hotel-internet-hack-aimed-at-travelling-executives
mais aussi responsabilités de VPN de remettre les logs de leurs clients à la justice, en particulier avec les tentatives de mise en place de législations plus restrictives autour du copyright (débat sur la #SOPA aux Etats-Unis) : http://www.industryleadersmagazine.com/the-stop-online-piracy-act-what-industry-leaders-can-do-abo
D’où volonté de certains groupes hacktivistes d’aller voir du côté des #darknets (internets « alternatifs »), notamment Telecomix qui veut remettre en cause la hiérachie http://dns.telecomix.org ; débat également repris par @Stephane Bortzmeyer ici-même
http://seenthis.net/messages/47785
Military surveillance data: Shared intelligence | Nature News
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110921/full/477388a.html
No one monitors our planet more closely than the military. Thirty-six thousand kilometres above Earth, US Air Force satellites watch for the heat plume of a ballistic missile. An array of other surveillance satellites patrol lower altitudes. Some can see a rifle from space; others penetrate cloud cover with radar, seeking military hardware or installations. Still closer in, aircraft and drones fly over conflict zones collecting intelligence, and seismometers listen for shudders from an underground nuclear test. Even the deepest oceans are prowled by military submarines, watching their foreign adversaries.
Through most of their history, the data collected by this vast blanket of military sensors have been highly classified. But on occasions when scientists are lucky enough to see the data, their view is considerably different from that of the generals. Satellites designed to track missiles can also spot the flaming trails of meteors
Exposed: Military contractors hired to create fake Facebook accounts, infiltrate opposing groups
http://www.naturalnews.com/033490_Facebook_infiltration.html
According to reports, USCC hired HBGary, Federal and several other defense contractors to create fake accounts on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter in order to sabotage progressive groups critical of the organization’s platform.
On dirait que HBGary a bel et bien développé son logiciel de persona management, dont le coût de développement initial était estimé à $100.000 en octobre 2010.
#persona_management #hbgary #us #usa #états-unis #facebook #twitter #espionnage #infiltration #réseaux_sociaux
Blowback in Somalia (The Nation)
http://www.thenation.com/article/163210/blowback-somalia?page=full
Perhaps more than any other figure, Indha Adde embodies the mind-boggling constellation of allegiances and double-crosses that has marked Somalia since its last stable government fell in 1991. And his current role encapsulates the contradictions of the country’s present: he is a warlord who believes in Sharia law, is friendly with the CIA, and takes money and weapons from AMISOM. There are large parts of Mogadishu that are not accessible without his permission, and he controls one of the largest militias and possesses more technicals (truck-mounted heavy automatic weapons) in the city than any other warlord. (...)
Google Admits Handing over European User Data to US Intelligence Agencies
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Google-Admits-Handing-over-European-User-Data-to-US-Intelligence-Age
Google has admitted complying with requests from US intelligence agencies for data stored in its European data centers, most likely in violation of European Union data protection laws.
Gordon Frazer, Microsoft UK’s managing director, made news headlines some weeks ago when he admitted that Microsoft can be compelled to share data with the US government regardless of where it is hosted in the world.
At the center of this problem is the USA PATRIOT ACT, which states that companies incorporated in the United States must hand over data administered by their foreign subsidiaries if requested.
Not only that, but they can be forced to keep quiet about it in order to avoid exposing active investigations and alert those targeted by the probes.
This situation poses a serious problem for companies like Microsoft, Google or Amazon, which offer cloud services around the world, because their subsidiaries must also respect local laws.
US claims of ‘no civilian deaths’ in Pakistan drone strikes is untrue : The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
http://thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/07/18/washingtons-untrue-claims-no-civilian-deaths-in-pakistan-dron
Claims by President Obama’s chief counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan that ‘there hasn’t been a single collateral [civilian] death’ in Pakistan since August 2010 are found to be untrue today, following a major Bureau investigation.
Le sujet est repris dans une émission de la BBC :
Nouvelle conférence de presse de Hassan Nasrallah.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRkOj_P8bDQ&feature=player_embedded#at=1940
À la 30e minute, document explosif : une vidéo montrant Gehrard Lehmann, le second de Detlev Mehlis dans l’enquête sur l’assassinat de Hariri, encaissant un pot de vin pour révéler des informations sur l’enquête. C’est proprement sidérant. (Si j’ai bien compris, ces images sont complétées par des enregistrements audio.)
Évidemment, vous n’entendez pas plus parler de ce document en France que vous n’avez entendu parler des précédents enregistrements mettant directement en cause l’enquête internationale.
Mise à jour, août 2011 : la vidéo réfèrencée initialement n’est plus en ligne. On trouve désormais une version doublée en anglais, découpée en plusieurs parties :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exudcwSPEP8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z07uU1ifToU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ozipT0OoGs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyMkY8xinus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X67xBhWQ_Vk
Hizbollah leader rules out arrests of members - FT.com
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/b807739c-a526-11e0-8df9-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1R1Htna1j
Mr Nasrallah said the international committee investigating the killing had shipped 97 computers used in the probe via the Jewish state. He also aired a video purporting to show a senior tribunal official taking bank notes from a man seated with his back to the camera.
The Hizbollah leader alleged that the tribunal official was being paid for information about the probe. He also alleged links between top tribunal officials and western. intelligence agencies.
[...]
Last year, Mr Nasrallah showed footage allegedly intercepted from spy planes, which seemed to show Israel monitoring the routes Hariri’s convoy took from parliament to his home in west Beirut. Hariri was killed in a bomb attack on his convoy in February 2005.
Hizballah Leader Stands Defiant Amidst Hariri Assassination Indictments - TIME
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2081285,00.html
One of the clips featured Robert Baer, TIME’s intelligence analyst and a former CIA officer who operated in Beirut in the 1980s, who it claimed worked with the tribunal.
Baer confirmed to TIME.com that he had previously served as a consultant to the tribunal, but denied he had any continuing professional connections to the CIA and was confident that various US intelligence agencies had not cooperated “on an operational level” with the tribunal.
“The CIA, for a fact, was not helping the tribunal. I know that,” he told TIME.com. “The Department of Justice, the FBI and the CIA steadfastly refused to give any information [to the tribunal] on Mustafa Badreddine and all those other guys... they have been very wary about the tribunal’s case.”
Another video clip apparently filmed by a hidden camera, showed Gerhard Lehmann, deputy to Detlev Mehlis, the first UN chief investigator in the Hariri case, receiving and riffling through a wad of bank notes. “Lehmann has ties to the Israelis and got paid in return for selling certain reports pertaining to the murder probe,” a voice-over said.
Nasrallah blasts STL, rejects arrest warrants - Daily Star
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Jul-02/Hezbollah-chief-to-address-Hariri-probe-indictment.ashx#axzz1R1JlqqUJ
The Hezbollah chief’s speech, which lasted over an hour, was interspersed with video presentations with evidence claiming to show how members of the STL had affiliations with Western intelligence agencies, including an Australian with alleged ties to a U.S. intelligence agency, a British investigator, claimed to be an expert on fighting Islamic terrorism, a former American officer, a French-Lebanese legal consultant for the STL who allegedly worked against the resistance and Robert Baer, who Nasrallah said was a CIA agent.
Nasrallah also took aim at Gerhard Lehman, the former deputy president of the investigative committee in the case of the assassination of Hariri.
“We will reveal a case ... where Lehman sold affidavits and confessions for money,” Nassrallah said before Al-Manar aired footage of Lehman allegedly receiving money in return for documents related to the investigation
Hezbollah chief says Hariri Court has ties with Western intelligence agencies
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2011-07/03/c_13962507.htm
Nasrallah revealed that one of the advisors to STL Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare was a top CIA agent that was tasked with tracking Hezbollah’s slain top military commander Imad Mughniyeh.
Nasrallah also described investigators looking into the Hariri assassination and some of the STL staff as “biased and corrupted.”
Nasrallah also showed footage of Gerhard Lehmann, top investigator in the United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC) to inspect the Hariri assassination, receiving a sum of money for information on the investigation he divulged.
The black-turbaned cleric questioned the reason why the UNIIIC shipped 97 computers to The Hague from Israel rather than regular routes such as the Lebanese port and airport. He also showed a voucher issued from the Israeli Customs to that effect.
Nasrallah implies Israel behind Hariri murder - Middle East - Al Jazeera English
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/07/201172183540290278.html
Speaking on Saturday in a telelvised speech, Nasrallah said that computers related to the case investigated by the STL were transported through Israel on their way out of Lebanon and asked why they had not been shipped out of a Beirut port?
He said Hezbollah would produce a document that proving the computers were transported from South Lebanon to Israel.
Speaking from Beirut, Jamal Wakim of the Lebanese International University told Al Jazeera that the charges over computer data were “the most important point” in the speech.
[...]
Nasrallah also revealed that he had received a document from the Qatari prime minister and Turkey’s foreign minister, which stated that Saad Hariri, the son of Rafik who was toppled as Lebanon’s prime minister earlier this year, had agreed to a set of demands, including abandoning the STL process, if he could stay on as premier.
Nasrallah said he would reveal the document to the public at a later date if the need arose, but that the message conveyed to him was that it was approved by the Saudis, French, British and US.
AFP: Hezbollah rules out arrests in ’void’ UN Hariri case
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ijTCtDxBx4YNfXYrLjXTQpjrZywQ?docId=CNG.8afa091e5483810446b19e5247e325f
He accused the STL of corruption and of having intentionally leaked information to the press in recent years to tarnish the image of Hezbollah, founded in 1982.
In elaborately edited segments, the Hezbollah-controlled Al-Manar television aired footage which Nasrallah said showed former UN investigator Gerhard Lehmann receiving a wad of cash in exchange for documents in the Hariri case.
Al-Manar also aired a document which Nasrallah said proved investigators had transferred IT equipment across Lebanon’s southern border into Israel when it moved its staff to the Netherlands in 2009.
Daily Star - Bellemare team have links to Western intelligence agencies
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Politics/2011/Jul-02/Bellemares-team-of-investigators-have-linkts-to-Western-intelligence-a
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said that Special Tribunal for Lebanon Daniel Bellemare’s team of consultants and investigators have ties to Western intelligence agencies.
Al-Manar TV revealed what it claimed was detailed information about the five members of Bellemare’s team who had previously worked as intelligence agents in Lebanon, including one who was CIA agent.
Il est très spectaculaire de constater que nombre d’autres journalistes relatent le même discours de Nasrallah, mais semblent n’y avoir pas vu aucune des innombrables vidéos qui constituent pourtant l’essentiel de la conférence de presse.
Dans les médias suivants, le sujet est bien la conférence de presse de Nasrallah, mais il n’est fait rigoureusement aucune mention des documents et accusations présentés par Nasrallah et qui en constituent le thème et le contenu principaux.
BBC News - Hezbollah reject Hariri arrest calls
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14004722
Voice of America - Hezbollah Rules Out Arrests in Hariri Murder Case
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Hezbollah-Rules-Out-Arrests-in-Hariri-Murder-Case-124918554.html
Hizbollah rules out arrests | News.com.au
http://www.news.com.au/world/hizbollah-rules-out-arrests/story-fn6sb9br-1226086399832
Hizballah Defends Hariri Suspects in Lebanon - Bassem Mroue (AP/TIME)
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2081272,00.html
Hezbollah leader rejects Hariri court indict... JPost (Reuters)
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=227593
Hezbollah leader says Israel was behind Hariri killing - CNN.com
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/07/02/lebanon.nasrallah.hariri
En français, sur Google News, je ne trouve que 3 articles. Spectaculaire encore, aucun n’évoque les éléments présentés par Nasrallah.
Liban : Le Hezbollah exclut l’arrestation de quatre suspects de son mouvement | International | Radio-Canada.ca
http://www.radio-canada.ca/nouvelles/International/2011/07/02/010-liban-arrestations-hezbollah.shtml
Nasrallah dénonce les mandats émis par le Tribunal sur le Liban - 20minutes.fr (Reuters)
http://www.20minutes.fr/ledirect/751947/nasrallah-denonce-mandats-emis-tribunal-liban
Mort de Hariri : Nasrallah exclut l’arrestation de 4 suspects du Hezbollah - Fil news - TF1 News
http://lci.tf1.fr/filnews/monde/mort-de-hariri-nasrallah-exclut-l-arrestation-de-4-suspects-du-6561488.html
Autant aller à la source : voici le compte-rendu qu’en fait la chaîne de télé du Hezbollah. Je le reproduis intégralement, histoire de corriger quelques coquilles dans certains noms.
http://www.almanar.com.lb/french/adetails.php?fromval=1&cid=18&eid=21702&frid=18
Dans la première réaction du Hezbollah, sur la remise de l’acte d’accusation lié à l’assassinat de l’ancien Premier ministre Rafic Hariri, le secrétaire général du Hezbollah, sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, a exclu l’arrestation des quatre accusés cités dans les mandats d’arrêt.
« Ce tribunal est pour nous un pur produit israélo-américain. Sur cette base-là, nous rejetons ce tribunal et tous les verdicts et les accusations nuls et non avenus qui en émanent ». « Aucune force ne pourra arrêter ceux qui sont mentionnés dans l’acte d’accusation (...). Il ne sera pas possible de les arrêter ni dans 30 jours, ni dans 30 ans ni dans 300 ans », a affirmé sayyed Nasrallah, dans un discours de plus d’une heure retransmis en direct par la télévision, Al-Manar.
Sayyed Nasrallah a également mis en relief, documents et vidéos à l’appui, la corruption des enquêteurs et leurs liaisons avec des services de renseignements étrangers, notamment la CIA. Il a également révélé le transfert de 97 ordinateurs vers l’entité sioniste. Sayyed Nasrallah a enfin écarté toute possibilité de nouvelle guerre civile ou d’affrontements entre musulmans sunnites et chiites.
Voici les principaux points de son discours :
La raison de mon discours est la publication de l’acte d’accusation à l’encontre des résistants ayant un passé honorable dans la résistance contre l’occupation israélienne au Liban. Cet acte d’accusation fait partie d’un long trajet qui a commencé à paraitre après la défaite d’Israël en été 2006. Quelques jours après la victoire de la résistance, Le Figaro a publié un article dans lequel il annonce que des membres du Hezbollah seront accusés dans l’assassinat de Rafic Hariri. Ils ont commencé par la Syrie, puis les quatre généraux (libanais), et après ils nous ont accusé. L’objectif du Tribunal Spécial pour le Liban (TSL), est de ternir l’image de la résistance et a pour objectif de semer la division au Liban, et entre sunnites et chiites.
L’Enquête et les enquêteurs
Un de nos problématiques concernant l’enquête est qu’il se base sur une hypothèse, la Syrie, les généraux et le Hezbollah. Pourquoi ils ne prennent pas en en considération l’hypothèse de l’implication israélienne dans l’assassinat de l’ancien Premier ministre. J’avais présenté plusieurs preuves concernant la présence d’espions et d’avions israéliens au dessus du Saint-Georges (lieu de l’attentat).
Mais le procureur général du tribunal les a ignorées, se contentant de demandant une copie de la conférence (tenue par sayyed Nasrallah). Au lieu de d’interroger les israéliens ils ont coopéré avec eux, c’est ce qu’a reconnu (le juge) Detlev Mehlis, dans une interview avec Le Figaro, il en est de même pour (son adjoint) Gerhard Lehman.
Transfert de 97 ordinateurs vers Israël
Après le début du travail du TSL, les enquêteurs et les équipements de la commission d’enquête ont été évacués du Liban. Le tribunal n’a plus qu’un bureau au Liban, tous ont quitté via l’aéroport de Beyrouth, à l’exception des 97 ordinateurs. Ces ordinateurs ont été transférés chez qui en Israël, surtout qu’il est l’un des pays les plus développés au niveau de la technologie.
Preuves à l’appui
Lors de son discours, la chaine AlManar diffuse un document signé par le secteur douanier israélien affirmant le transfert des 97 ordinateurs liés à l’enquête vers Israël.
Liaisons des enquêteurs avec la CIA
Pour la crédibilité de l’enquête le tribunal aurait dû adopter des enquêteurs neutres, or les experts, les officiers et les conseillers du tribunal ont des passés négatifs à l’encontre de la résistance et dans la collaboration avec la CIA.
Un des grands officiers de la CIA a travaillé 15 ans contre le Hezbollah et a participé au massacre de Bir Abed en 1984, qui visait le défunt sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, et a coûté la vie à près de cent personnes.
Documents à l’appui
Lors de son discours, la télévision Al-Manar a diffusé des informations sur Nick Kaldas, un des enquêteurs qui est un des officiers dans la police australienne, lié aux services de renseignements américains, il a travaillé pour les Américains en Irak en 2004.
Michael Taylor, britannique, responsable de l’enquête du TSL depuis 2010, il est un ancien chef des services de renseignements britanniques, il est spécialisé dans la lutte contre contre le « terrorisme islamique ».
Doreid Bouchrawi, conseiller juridique dans le TSL, un libano-français, connu pour ses positions hostiles au Hezbollah et son rôle dans les faux-témoins.
Robert Baer, un des officiers de la CIA, expert dans les mouvements islamiques notamment le Hezbollah. En 1985, il a participé à l’assassinat de Sayyed Fadlallah tuant et blessant plus de 300 personnes. Une de ses missions consistait à traquer l’un des dirigeants de la résistance Imad Moghniyé. Il a avoué, dans une interview avec une chaine arabe, d’avoir travaillé près de 15 ans pour le kidnapper.
Cette équipe est-elle compétente ? Certains d’entre eux sont des assassins ou espions et la plupart d’entre eux collaborent avec la CIA. Cette équipe pourrait accepter l’hypothèse de l’implication d’Israël ?
La corruption des enquêteurs
La corruption vient s’ajouter à l’agressivité des enquêteurs et à leur subjectivité. Nous allons parlé du vice-president de la commission d’enquête Gerhard Lehman. Pour des dizaines de milliers de dollars il vend des documents liés à l’enquête.
Preuves à l’appui
Une vidéo montrant Lehman en train de prendre l’argent en échange de la vente des documents.
Comme vous l’avez vu il est content en prenant l’argent. Il a même retéléphoné pour demander l’argent en échange d’autres informations liées à l’enquête.
Implication de la commission d’enquête dans les faux-témoins
Bellemare a personnellement travaillé à la levée de la poursuite par l’Interpol de Zouheir Siddiq (fameux faux-témoin). Je promets de présenter des preuves là-dessus plus tard.
Antonio Cassesse grand ami d’Israël
Le président du Tribunal, Antonio Cassesse, est un grand ami d’Israël selon l’un de ses amis lors de la conférence Herziliya (institut sioniste d’études politiques et stratégiques).
Vidéo à l’appui
Le 3 fév. 2010, lors de la conférence Herzilya, le professeur américain George Fletcher, dit : Antonio Cassesse n’a pas pu venir participer à cette conférence, il est l’un des grands amis d’Israël et un de nos amis.
En 2006, Cassesse envoie une lettre adressée aux autorités israéliennes dans laquelle il affirme qu’Israël est la seul pays démocratique dans la région, et qui respecte les droits de l’Homme. Dans cette lettre Cassesse reconnait qu’Israël a occupé Gaza mais considère que les gazaouis ont eu recours à la violence et au terrorisme.
Sayyed commente les positions de Cassesse
Les 11000 détenus par Israël, les massacres israéliens au Liban et ailleurs font partie du respect des droits de l’Homme. Comment un homme pareil serait-il compétent de trouver la vérité dans l’assassinat de Hariri ?
Position du Hezbollah à l’égard de l’acte d’accusation
Aux gens :
Je dis aux gens ne prêtez pas l’oreille à ce que les Israéliens disent aujourd’hui du Liban. Il n’y aura pas de zizanie entre Libanais et entre les sunnites et chiites. Il n’y aura pas de guerre civile.
Aux forces du 14 mars :
Ne faites pas porter la responsabilité de ce dossier à Mikati. S’il y avait ajourd’hui un gouvernement qui n’est pas présidé par Mikati mais par Saad Hariri ou Siniora, est-ce que ce gouvernement pourraient arrêter ces personnes ? Aucune force ne pourra arrêter ceux qui sont mentionnés dans l’acte d’accusation (...) Il ne sera pas possible de les arrêter ni dans 30 jours, ni dans 30 ans ni dans 300 ans. Les choses iront jusqu’au procès par contumace, le verdict est déjà prêt. Donc ne demandez pas du gouvernement de Mikati ce qu’il est incapable de faire et il en est de même pour vous.
Lettre signée par Saad Hariri en échange de rester au pouvoir
Ne demandez pas au gouvernement de Mikati ce que Saad Hariri a accepté de faire en échange de rester au pouvoir. Si vous voulez (députés du 14 mars) je vous envoie une copie dans ce sens. Le Premier ministre qatarie et le ministre des affaires étrangère turc nous ont livré ce document accepté par Hariri, les français, le turcs, les syriens et même Clinton étaient prêts à le signer, mais nous l’avons refusé pour des raisons nationales.
Aux sympathisants de la résistance
Ne vous inquiétez pas, c’est une partie de la guerre que la résistance affronte depuis la création de l’entité sioniste en 1948. Ce sont les conséquences du choix de la résistance et de la libération de la Palestine. Nous sommes déterminés à poursuivre le choix de la résistance avec courage et force. Il y a certains qui veulent vous provoquer, il y a certains politiciens au Liban qui veulent la divisions, je veux le dire, il y a certains chrétiens des forces du 14 mars qui rêvent de voir une division entre sunnites et chiites. Enfin, cette résistance – avant le tribunal, Cassesse et Mellis et tous ceux qui les soutiennent – va très bien et ne vous inquiétez pas pour elle.
Angry Arab – Nasrallah speech: the Hariri tribunal saga
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2011/07/nasrallah-speech-hariri-tribunal-saga.html
Nasrallah’s speech yesterday was full of drama. As a TV show, it was quite effective. I polled my readers on Facebook and they were uniformly impressed (and most of those who contribute on my wall are rather secular). But make no mistake about it: it is doubtful that he won new converts inside Lebanon: minds are made, and nothing can change them in the sectarianly divided lousy homeland.
There was a skillful use of images and music and short clips and texts. It was well-prepared, but not as well-prepared as it would have been. There were sections that had high drama of documentation, but there were other sections that had no documentation or evidence. So it was mixed.
He was (unlike appearances from the last two years) relaxed and not agitated or angry. He came across as confident. So it worked well, for his own home front, and for those who support resistance against Israel. And even for the community of the Hariri camp: public opinion surveys do indicate that the credibility of the court has been declining among Sunnis and Christians. Suspicion of Israel is very common (and justified, of course). But I am not necessarily convinced that the Israel killed Hariri: Israel should be the most usual suspect for any and every crime in our region given its long consistent record of crimes, atrocities and murders. But I still believe that Hariri was good for Israel, and that Israel would have benefited from his reign, especially that his son is such an incompetent fool, literally really.
Nasrallah began by revealing information about the military consultants to the court. This is information that we did not know at all. He basically said that those military men are linked to US intelligence, but here he failed to provide any evidence or documentation.
He then dwelled on the case of Robert Baer: and he revealed (I never knew this before) that he is a consultant to the court. Now that in itself is damning. That this guy whose official job in Lebanon was to chase and hunt down key Hizbullah figures is assigned to advise the court on its work. Most incredible. Imagine if the UN team that investigated Israeli war crimes in Gaza hired Khalid Mish`al or his security adviser as a consultant to the UN team. Very damning indeed. (Personally, I think that Baer is an interesting writer but tends to exaggerate, and his list of languages that he claims he knows, makes me even more skeptical about his tall tales. But his first book is a good read: the one on Saudi Arabia has nothing new, although I appreciate his criticisms of US foreign policy toward Saudi Arabia. On Israel, I find Baer to be inconsistent: he speaks one way to Fox News, and another way to Arab media). But that section of the speech was revealing in terms of names but needed further documentation (like what is the evidence that the Egyptian-Australian military guy works closely with the Americans?).
Then Nasrallah provided a most unusual document: a copy of a Israeli custom manifest that shows the transfer of 97 computers. Nasrallah claimed that the Hariri investigating team in Beirut, decided to transfer their computers through Israel, for no apparent reason. But An-Nahar today, claimed in response that this document talks about computers belonging to the Armistice committees and not to the Hariri investigating team. An-Nahar (the right-wing, sectarian Christian, racist anti-Syrian (people), anti-Palestinian (people), must have been tipped off by Israel. But still: what people will see in this section is the wide reach of Hizbullah intelligence. Living in the era of the failures of Arab intelligence against Israel, this ability to obtain a copy of Israeli custom document will impress the hell out of Arab audiences who were glued to the screen.
Nasrallah then talked about the pro-Israeli biases of the president of the Hariri tribunal, Antonio Cassese. Here, the finding was due to pure diligence of Hizbullah researchers: through thorough google work, they stumbled upon a document in which Cassese advises the Israeli government and makes clear his admiration fo the terrorist state of Israel. He then showed a clip from a “security” conference in Israel, where the chair of one panel identified Cassesse as “great friend of Israel.” That, to me, and to any fair minded person, is damning enough to disqualify the guy. Imagine, again, if the UN appoints a judge to a panel investigating some Israeli crime, and puts a guy as president who was identified by a Hizbullah official as “great friend of Hizbullah.” This is rather absurd that the US/Israel (which in my mind run the affair of the Hariri tribunal) would appoint such a person, and not think that Arabs (who they view as dumb) would find out.
And there was a Candid Camera moment in the show when a clip showed deputy to Mehlis, Gerhard Lehmann, taking a bribe for his sale of audio-tapes (they were subsequently sold to New TV in Beirut).
There are so many holes dug into the case that, no matter who was guilty, the Justice Department would have dismissed the case if this was run here in the US. No evidence can now save the reputation of the court. Also, no one in the US media mentions, but so many people have resigned from the court in the last few years.
PS. Nada Bakri (who is a fine and fair reporter on Lebanon) did not mention any of the content of Nasrallah speech in her piece today. She, like those articles in Saudi-funded Arabic press, merely mentioned that he rejected the indictment.
Metaphor is the new weapon in the ’war’ on terror | Technology | The Observer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jun/05/john-naughton-networker-spooks
A branch of the US intelligence service called the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) announced that it would be pouring millions of dollars into a “Metaphor Programme”. (...)
Ah! So it’s computational linguistics on steroids.
flippant, quoiqu’on voit mal à quel genre de prédictions cela pourrait aboutir.
""The Metaphor Programme," said the solicitation (ie call for research proposals) from IARPA’s Office of Incisive Analysis (I am not making this up), “will exploit the fact that metaphors are pervasive in everyday talk and reveal the underlying beliefs and worldviews of members of a culture. In the first phase of the two-phase programme, performers [IARPA’s intriguing term for researchers] will develop automated tools and techniques for recognising, defining and categorising linguistic metaphors associated with target concepts and found in large amounts of native-language text.”
Jolie chute
“The thought that their work might one day fuel the ‘war’ on terror will have generations of literary scholars revolving in their graves. And that’s a metaphor too.”
Finalement je suis content de pas porter de montre...
Wearing a Casio Enough to Become Terror Suspect
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,758913,00.html
With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook
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