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1441
    #2028216 - 10/21/03 09:37 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

How exactly did Iraq violate the resolution?


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Re: 1441 [Re: GazzBut]
    #2028356 - 10/21/03 10:43 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Iraq was told to catalogue their weapons (chemicals etc.) but when it came time for the inspectors to check on those chemicals that were cataloged they were missing. I'm not going to pretend like i know where they went but that alone is in defiance of 1441, full disclosure. knowing what we know now (and i've already said i was wrong) the US should of waited Saddam out and call his bluff.


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Re: 1441 [Re: GazzBut]
    #2028363 - 10/21/03 10:46 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

A cease-fire agreement is much like being on parole. If you violate the terms then action will be taken against you.


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Re: 1441 [Re: wingnutx]
    #2028388 - 10/21/03 10:56 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

there were NUMEROUS violations and 1441 was the last straw. I wonder where the chemicals they said they had went?


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Re: 1441 [Re: Innvertigo]
    #2028392 - 10/21/03 10:59 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Iraq was also in possession of Al-something missiles that exceeded the legal range of missiles they wer allowed to have. Interesting how the war was because of BANNED weapons(not just WMD's) and noone has really focused on the fact that they did have BANNED WEAPONS.


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Just give em a little more time, the iraqis are making great progress. And this is unorganized. Wait till they get organized.

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Re: 1441 [Re: Innvertigo]
    #2028403 - 10/21/03 11:02 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

I don't know where they went, but I have one friend with blister agent burns on his feet, and one who is losing hair and fingernails. There is some bad stuff over there.


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Re: 1441 [Re: GazzBut]
    #2028411 - 10/21/03 11:06 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

GAZZ, what did you think 1441 said?


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Re: 1441 [Re: lysergic]
    #2028433 - 10/21/03 11:14 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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Iraq was also in possession of Al-something missiles that exceeded the legal range of missiles they wer allowed to have. Interesting how the war was because of BANNED weapons(not just WMD's) and noone has really focused on the fact that they did have BANNED WEAPONS.




I am familiar with the missles you are referring to and the weapons inspectors have already stated that those missles you speak of were considered a non-issue...since the range was only exceeded by a few miles...and that there were many variables that could account for that.

You'll need to do better...


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Re: 1441 [Re: Rono]
    #2028442 - 10/21/03 11:19 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

18 Apr 1991 Iraq provides initial declaration required under resolution 687 (1991), declares some chemical weapons and materials and 53 Al-Hussein and Scud type long-range ballistic missiles. Iraq declares it has no biological weapons programme.


In 1991 Iraq, as part of resolution 687, decleard that she did have weapons that violate the treaty, and has "some" chemical weapons. No proof is ever made of them destroying these weapons.


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Re: 1441 [Re: lysergic]
    #2028448 - 10/21/03 11:21 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

UNSCOM: CHRONOLOGY OF MAIN EVENTS



3 Apr 1991 Security Council resolution 687 (1991), Section C, decides that Iraq shall unconditionally accept, under international supervision, the destruction, removal or rendering harmless of its weapons of mass destruction, ballistic missiles with a range over 150 kilometres, and related production facilities and equipment. It also provides for establishment of a system of ongoing monitoring and verification of Iraq?s compliance with the ban on these weapons and missiles. Requires Iraq to make a declaration, within 15 days, of the location, amounts and types of all such items.

6 Apr 1991 Iraq accepts resolution 687 (1991) (S/22456).

18 Apr 1991 Iraq provides initial declaration required under resolution 687 (1991), declares some chemical weapons and materials and 53 Al-Hussein and Scud type long-range ballistic missiles. Iraq declares it has no biological weapons programme.

14 May 1991 Entry into force of the exchange of letters between the Secretary-General and the Foreign Minister of Iraq setting out the rights, privileges and immunities of the Special Commission and its personnel in Iraq.

16 May 1991 Iraq submits revised declarations covering additional chemical weapons and a refinement of the missile declaration.

9 Jun 1991 UNSCOM commences its first chemical weapons inspection.

23-28 Jun 1991 UNSCOM/IAEA inspectors try to intercept Iraqi vehicles carrying nuclear related equipment (Calutrons). Iraqi personnel fire warning shots in the air to prevent the inspectors from approaching the vehicles. The equipment is later seized and destroyed under international supervision.







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We should have attacked them at that time.


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Re: 1441 [Re: lysergic]
    #2028454 - 10/21/03 11:23 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

http://www.un.org/Depts/unscom/Chronology/resolution715.htm


I won't post that entire thing here, but it's a list of a few mroe times that Iraq has violated resolutions. I did't even realiez all of the things that they had done.  AFter reading this, you can't POSSIBLY be against hte war, unless you are a [edited in consideration for Rono] :smile:


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Re: 1441 [Re: lysergic]
    #2028457 - 10/21/03 11:23 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

You do realize where they got those from don't you?

Chemical weapons have a shelf life...anything that they had in 1991 has been long since rendered useless...How do you prove that you have destroyed something that is already worthless?

EDIT: That list you provided does not support your argument at all...Are you saying that because Iraq admitted to having weapons and destroying them 10 YEARS AGO, that the U.S. was justified for attacking them recently??? :wtf:



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Re: 1441 [Re: Rono]
    #2028475 - 10/21/03 11:27 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Stabilizers can be added to chemical weapons giving them a shelf-life of decades. US stores of XV are a good example. We have to incinerate these, which we've been doing for many years now.

Anthrax spores have an indefinite shelf-life. They can survive for decades, possibly over a century, just buried uncontained in the dirt. In a sealed container there is no known lifespan.

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Re: 1441 [Re: wingnutx]
    #2028499 - 10/21/03 11:34 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

I think it's already been well established already that Iraq does not possess any WMD's by the simple fact that not ONE DROP of chemical weapon has been found...I repeat..NOT ONE DROP...or are you still clinging to the hope that Bush and Co. told the truth about their reasons for attacking Iraq?


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Re: 1441 [Re: wingnutx]
    #2028504 - 10/21/03 11:34 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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The liquid form of anthrax weapon can be stored at 0?C for approximately one year. The dry form has a much longer shelf life; no decay was observed even after five years in storage. Spores can remain viable for many years, despite significant changes in light and temperature.


http://www.bioterrorism.uab.edu/EIPBA/Anthrax/history.html




UNSCOM catalogued 8500 liters of weaponized anthrax spores.

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Unscom was forced to quit Iraq in December 1998, with the team believing it had destroyed most of the 8,500 litres of concentrated anthrax and 19,000 litres of undiluted botulinum toxin that Saddam admitted he had after years denying a biological weapons programme. Anthrax production began in June 1990, on the eve of the invasion of Kuwait.


http://observer.guardian.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1373,578030,00.html




It didn't take them much time to produce that 8500 liters, and a single liter could be easily replicated.

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Re: 1441 [Re: wingnutx]
    #2028511 - 10/21/03 11:38 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

not one drop....


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Re: 1441 [Re: Rono]
    #2028521 - 10/21/03 11:41 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Iraq's chemical and biological weapons were physically catalogued by UN inspectors, and some of them were verified to have been destroyed.

Where did the rest go?
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I think it's already been well established already that Iraq does not possess any WMD's by the simple fact that not ONE DROP of chemical weapon has been found...




Finding a 1000 liter tank hidden in an an area the size of California may take a while. It's taken this long to inspect something like 10% of their weapon dumps. Clandestine labs, deliberately hidden from UN inspectors, have been found. That right there is a violation and casus belli.

BTW, anthrax would be a much better terror weapon than nerve agent, imho. Dump a liter in the air ducts at Grand Central Station and you'll have an impressive body count, plus total chaos.

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Re: 1441 [Re: Rono]
    #2028529 - 10/21/03 11:44 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Where did they go, then?

Iraq could have secretly destroyed the remainder, after driving out the inspectors. This is so highly unlikely as to be absurd.

The only other options are that they are hidden within Iraq, or have been shipped out of the country. They cannot simply cease to exist.


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Re: 1441 [Re: wingnutx]
    #2028533 - 10/21/03 11:47 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

They didn't go anywhere because they never existed.

Edame just posted an excellent article from the New Yorker...here is the link... NO WMD'S


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Re: 1441 [Re: Rono]
    #2028542 - 10/21/03 11:49 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

So the UN was lying when they found all that anthrax back in the 90's?


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Re: 1441 [Re: wingnutx]
    #2028555 - 10/21/03 11:54 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Did you even read the article?...

The unaccounted for weapons never existed...


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Re: 1441 [Re: Rono]
    #2028578 - 10/21/03 11:59 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Yes, I did read the article. It simply does not mention anthrax even once, much less the 8500 liters found by UNSCOM. It briefly mentions that a biological weapons program existed, then ignores it and addresses chemical and biological weapons.

Were the UN weapons inspectors lying about physically verifying the existence of that anthrax?

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Re: 1441 [Re: Rono]
    #2028591 - 10/21/03 12:03 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

From the article you refer to:

"we are not yet at the point where we can say definitively either that such weapon stocks do not exist"


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Re: 1441 [Re: wingnutx]
    #2028608 - 10/21/03 12:08 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

No-one is denying that Iraq ever HAD anthrax...the key word being HAD...that was 10 years ago....let it go.


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Re: 1441 [Re: wingnutx]
    #2028610 - 10/21/03 12:09 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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wingnutx said:
From the article you refer to:

"we are not yet at the point where we can say definitively either that such weapon stocks do not exist"






Sort of the same as saying "we are not yet at the point where we can say definitively that such weapon stocks DO exist" wouldn't you say?


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Re: 1441 [Re: Rono]
    #2028623 - 10/21/03 12:13 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Yes, but they were proven to exist at one time, or else UN inspections regime was a fraud from the start. Do you believe that it was?

If so, then why should the reconstituted inspections regime under Blix be any different?

Either the UN has been lying the entire time, or the anthrax existed.

If it existed at one point, and was not verified destroyed, then where did it go?


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Re: 1441 [Re: wingnutx]
    #2028652 - 10/21/03 12:22 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Just because something is described as "unaccounted for"...does not mean that it actually ever existed.


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Re: 1441 [Re: Rono]
    #2028700 - 10/21/03 12:34 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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Rono said:
Just because something is described as "unaccounted for"...does not mean that it actually ever existed.





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Rono said:
Like I said previously...no one is saying that the Anthrax never existed, it obviously did.




make up your damn mind


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Re: 1441 [Re: d33p]
    #2028718 - 10/21/03 12:38 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

sigh....Why is this so hard to understand???

Let me put it as simply as possbile to avoid confusion.


Iraq had a quantity of Anthrax...the U.N. believes that "most" of what they thought Iraq had was destroyed and the rest is unaccounted for...but just because the remainder is unaccounted for does not mean that it actually ever existed.

Get it?...or am I going to have write this in crayon?


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Re: 1441 [Re: Rono]
    #2028807 - 10/21/03 01:02 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

It's a lot more than anthrax that is unaccounted for.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=10288

To move away from anthrax specifically and get to resolution 1441 as a whole, no one can deny that Iraq was in violation of EVERY SINGLE CLAUSE of 1441, just as they were in violation of EVERY SINGLE CLAUSE of the previous 16 resolutions. And, of course, no one (other than Ba'athist flunkies) has ever even tried to deny this.

As a matter of fact, 1441 is in essence nothing more than a repeat of the content of the previous sixteen resolutions. The only new thing was that this time there was the the hollow threat of grave consequences if iraq continued to ignore the resolution.

Of course, to the UN, such consequences meant nothing more than writing another resolution -- and maybe directing some extra-strong "frown beams" towards Iraq if they happen to be really pissed.

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Re: 1441 [Re: Phred]
    #2028842 - 10/21/03 01:13 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

The invasion by the U.S. has proved to be no more effective than the U.N.'s "frown beams" when it comes to finding said WMD's...


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Re: 1441 [Re: Rono]
    #2029199 - 10/21/03 03:24 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

I don't think that it's mandatory for us to find WMD's, since long range missiles were also a part of it. Another part, Saddam wasn't allow to do ANYTHING to prevent the UN from their inspections. He did, we removed him.

Rono - It has been more effective at guaranteetingthat Saddam won't use any WMD's, regardless.


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Re: 1441 [Re: lysergic]
    #2029232 - 10/21/03 03:33 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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I don't think that it's mandatory for us to find WMD's


Since that was the main reason given for going over there, I'd say it better be fucking mandatory.

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since long range missiles were also a part of it.



Iraq does not have, or ever did have long range missles...period.

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Another part, Saddam wasn't allow to do ANYTHING to prevent the UN from their inspections


Bullshit...Iraq bent over backwards to accomodate the inspectors...please explain otherwise.

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Rono - It has been more effective at guaranteeting that Saddam won't use any WMD's, regardless.


That is completely absurd reasoning...I would hope that even you can see that.







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Re: 1441 [Re: Rono]
    #2029466 - 10/21/03 04:40 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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the U.N. believes that "most" of what they thought Iraq had was destroyed




Wrong. Most of what they physically verified to exist, not most of what they thought might exist.

Big difference.

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Re: 1441 [Re: Rono]
    #2029478 - 10/21/03 04:42 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Rono: Check this link out, you'll find that it's not even that clear cut as to how much anthrax Iraq was supposed to have. Looks to me like it's mostly based on speculation and guesswork, rather than actual physical evidence that Iraq had as much as is being claimed. Like it mentions in the article you linked, the intelligence was cherry-picked and then spun to make it appear worse than it was.

http://www.middleeastreference.org.uk/iraqweaponsb.html#bexista

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UK dossier, 24 September 2002, p.16: "we assess that when the UN inspectors left Iraq they were unable to account for [...] growth media procured for biological agent production (enough to produce over three times the 8,500 litres of anthrax spores Iraq admits to having manufactured)"

Department of Defense, 8 October 2002, slide 24: 3 to 4 times more anthrax .. was produced than are unaccounted for.

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Washington, 19 December 2002: "Before the inspectors were forced to leave Iraq, they concluded that Iraq could have produced 26,000 liters of anthrax. That is three times the amount Iraq had declared. Yet, the Iraqi declaration is silent on this stockpile, which, alone, would be enough to kill several million people."

State Department, 19 December 2002: "The UN Special Commission concluded that Iraq did not verifiably account for, at a minimum, 2160kg of growth media. This is enough to produce 26,000 liters of anthrax -- 3 times the amount Iraq declared" (repeated by White House, January 2003, p.5).

President Bush, 28 January 2003: "The United Nations concluded in 1999 that Saddam Hussein had biological weapons sufficient to produce over 25,000 liters of anthrax -- enough doses to kill several million people."

Secretary Powell, 5 February 2003: "Iraq declared 8,500 liters of anthrax, but UNSCOM estimates that Saddam Hussein could have produced 25,000 liters. If concentrated into this dry form, this amount would be enough to fill tens upon tens upon tens of thousands of teaspoons. And Saddam Hussein has not verifiably accounted for even one teaspoon-full of this deadly material."

State Department, 27 February 2003: "Iraq declared producing nearly 8,500 liters but denied its ability to produce dry agent. UN inspectors believe Iraq may have produced 26,000 liters [...]."




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Re: 1441 [Re: Edame]
    #2029526 - 10/21/03 04:55 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Where's the 8500 liters? Leave the estimated amount out completely.

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Re: 1441 [Re: wingnutx]
    #2029566 - 10/21/03 05:11 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Where does it say that the 8500 litres that were declared are not accounted for?


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And God, hearing this desperate plea from His creation, wrinkled His mighty brow for a moment and then leaned down toward man, beckoning that he should come close so as to hear all that was about to be revealed to him.

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Re: 1441 [Re: Innvertigo]
    #2031544 - 10/22/03 03:30 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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Iraq was told to catalogue their weapons (chemicals etc.)




Which they did. The report then had some 8000 pages edited out of it by the US with no satisfactory explanation.


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but when it came time for the inspectors to check on those chemicals that were cataloged they were missing.




And how did the Iraqi's respond to this claim? Were they even given a chance to?
What quantity of chemicals are we talking about? If Iraq were really trying to be duplicitous why would they claim to have stuff which they then hid? As with the long range missile issue this is grasping at straws and could easily have been accepted by the US if they really had been interested in finding a peaceful solution.

Iraq had to declare their WMD's or prove they didnt have them which is obviously impossible. How can you prove you dont have something? Hussein stated all along that Iraq didnt have WMD's. He was called a liar and because he did not disarm he was attacked. Now it turns out he may bave been telling the truth and was unable to disarm as he had nothing to disarm.


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Re: 1441 [Re: lysergic]
    #2031545 - 10/22/03 03:32 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

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Iraq was also in possession of Al-something missiles that exceeded the legal range of missiles they wer allowed to have. Interesting how the war was because of BANNED weapons(not just WMD's) and noone has really focused on the fact that they did have BANNED WEAPONS.





The reason nobody focused on it was because these weapons were only slightly over the legal limit, there wasnt very many of them and they are not particulary effective weapons. In short, it was no big deal.


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Re: 1441 [Re: lysergic]
    #2031552 - 10/22/03 03:34 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

Lysergic do you really think that violating a few UN resolutions is enough reason to attack another country? Is it that important they are enforced?


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    #2032094 - 10/22/03 10:55 AM (20 years, 5 months ago)

If so, then Isreal should be next....


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    #2032316 - 10/22/03 12:16 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

I bet Lysergic supports selective enforcement of UN resolutions...


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Re: 1441 [Re: GazzBut]
    #2032709 - 10/22/03 02:18 PM (20 years, 5 months ago)

If they had them they would have used them... So why didn't they?? it's not that hard to fill a morter up with chems and shoot it..

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