Archived news and commentary: January 21 - 27, 2002

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2002/03/18 - 2002/03/24
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2002/03/04 - 2002/03/10
2002/02/25 - 2002/03/03
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2002/02/11 - 2002/02/17
2002/02/04 - 2002/02/10
2002/01/28 - 2002/02/03
2002/01/21 - 2002/01/27
2002/01/14 - 2002/01/20
2002/01/07 - 2002/01/13
2002/01/01 - 2002/01/06

Sunday, January 27, 2002

News and commentary:

"Blast rocks Jerusalem" (CNN.com, 2002/01/27)
"One Israeli was killed and more than 110 people were injured in a Palestinian suicide bombing attack midday Sunday in the center of west Jerusalem -- the second attack in the same area in less than a week, Israeli authorities said. ... The blast was at Jaffa Street, one of the major road arteries in the heart of West Jerusalem, and just 100 yards from the spot where a Palestinian gunman last week killed two people. Jaffa Street is also close to the Sbarro pizza restaurant where last year 15 people were killed by a suicide bomber."

"Peace Now is a false messiah" (Yossi Olmert, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/01/27)
"Under the pressure of Peace Now, Israel signed the disastrous Oslo Accords and under the continuing pressure of the same people, prime minister Ehud Barak went to Camp David in 2000, and we all know what has followed since then. In fact, the last calamity brought about by the knights of Peace Now, aka "the Aksa intifada," still takes its toll from us all, leftists and rightists alike, but the inventors of Peace Now are still in pursuit of their false messianic goal. They are unrepentant even when ordinary Israelis, and not only dedicated supporters of the right wing, understand clearly how distorted and dangerous the entire concept of "peace now" has been since the late 1970s."

"America's Chaotic Road to War" (Dan Balz and Bob Woodward, The Washington Post, 2002/01/27)
"Shortly after 9:30 p.m., President Bush brought together his most senior national security advisers in a bunker beneath the White House grounds. It was just 13 hours after the deadliest attack on the U.S. homeland in the country's history. ... Rumsfeld warned that an effective response would require a wider war, one that went far beyond the use of military force. The United States, he said, must employ every tool available-military, legal, financial, diplomatic, intelligence. The president was enthusiastic. But Tenet offered a sobering thought. Although al Qaeda's home base was Afghanistan, the terrorist organization operated nearly worldwide, he said. The CIA had been working the bin Laden problem for years. We have a 60-country problem, he told the group. 'Let's pick them off one at a time,' Bush replied."

"Bin Laden Stirs Struggle on Meaning of Jihad" (John F. Burns, The New York Times, 2002/01/27)
"'Osama bin Laden is not a theologian, or a jihadist in the traditional sense of the term; he's a political activist,' said one critic, Olivier Roy, a French scholar who has written several books about Afghanistan. 'He has Islamized the traditional discourse of Western anti-imperialism. So a lot of Muslims support him, not because they see him as a true warrior for Islam, but because they hate America, and he's the only man in the Islamic world that they see fighting the Americans. He's like Carlos the Jackal converted to Islam.'"

"The 2 Domes of Belgium" (Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, 2002/01/27)
"Here's the truth: What radicalized the Sept. 11 terrorists was not that they suffered from a poverty of food, it was that they suffered from a poverty of dignity. Frustrated by the low standing of Muslim countries in the world, compared with Europe or the United States, and the low standing in which they were personally held where they were living, they were easy pickings for militant preachers who knew how to direct their rage. ... Mr. Karatnycky is right: the real challenge of the West is to understand what is happening not just in Iraq or Saudi Arabia, but also in its own backyard, in the chemical reaction between Western societies and their own mosques and Muslim diasporas. That's where the killer pilots were conceived, and that's where they must be tracked - but in a way that respects the fact that 99.9 percent of the Muslims in Europe or America are good citizens, not militants." (See also: "Under Our Very Noses. The Terrorist Next Door" (Adrian Karatnycky, Freedom House/National Review, 2002/11/05))

"Terror video used to lure UK Muslims" (Jason Burke, The Observer, 2002/01/27)
"A gruesome video showing Islamic extremists murdering and mutilating 'infidels' is being circulated in Britain's mosques as part of a recruiting drive for Osama bin Laden's worldwide terror network. The video, which was smuggled into the UK only days before the 11 September attacks, shows people having their throats cut and the wholesale slaughter of secular forces by a group linked to the world's most wanted terrorist. ... The commentary calls for 'holy war until judgment day', and tells viewers to 'kill in the name of Allah until you are killed. Then you will win your place forever in paradise... the war against the Jews and the Christians is being won.'"

 

Saturday, January 26, 2002

News and commentary:

"Kipling Knew What the U.S. May Now Learn" (Edward Rothstein, The New York Times, 2002/01/26)
"'Take up the White Man's burden,' was Rudyard Kipling's notorious prescription for the United States as it began to rule the Philippine Islands. That refrain, from an 1899 poem, eventually became a key exhibit in the case against the racism and exploitation of 19th-century imperialism. Kipling's attitudes toward "new-caught, sullen peoples,/Half devil and half child" permanently sullied his reputation. ... But the war in Afghanistan should spur yet another examination, particularly as the West becomes involved in nation building. In a region long scarred by tribal and religious massacres, invasions, poverty and corruption, the hope is that over $4 billion in aid will lead to a Western-style democracy, a Western-style justice system and a relatively free economy. But don't these ambitious humanitarian goals themselves require a form of imperialism not all that different from Britain's at its best? Don't these intentions unavoidably assert superiority? And may not these ambitions - however fantastical- possibly lead to varieties of exploitation and unexpected massacres now associated with the phrase "White Man's burden"? How are burdens of imperial power to be borne as they arise in new incarnations?"

"President Assails Palestinian Chief on Arms Shipment" (Todd S. Purdum, The New York Times, 2002/01/26)
"In his harshest comments yet on Yasir Arafat, President Bush suggested today that the Palestinian leader was "enhancing terror" with a boatload of smuggled arms intended for use against Israel, as the president and top advisers met to consider ways to isolate and punish Mr. Arafat. ... "Ordering up weapons that were intercepted on a boat headed for that part of the world is not part of fighting terror, that's enhancing terror, and obviously we're very disappointed in him." ... Mr. Indyk said the sophistication and destructive power of the armor- piercing weapons, rockets and explosives seized on the ship, and the evidence that they were shipped from Iran, had raised the administration's concerns about violence by Palestinians to a new level."

"Afghans at war" (The Times, 2002/01/26)
"The forces for that job would logically be those of the British-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) which, Tony Blair initially declared, was needed precisely in order to safeguard international relief efforts. But between conception and inception, strange things happened to its mandate; its only mandate is to patrol the capital, Kabul, which is as dormant as a slab of stale bread. It is "coalition forces", not Isaf, which have opened 11 major convoy routes and nine airfields, making it possible to get between 50 and 100 per cent of their food requirements to all but a few isolated Afghan communities. ... A few token patrols apart, Isaf is doing little more than look after itself. It should either get itself a proper mandate and fan out where it is really needed, or be gone. Afghanistan’s needs are immense and serious, but they do not include grown men playing at militarised Scouts."

 

Friday, January 25, 2002

News and commentary:

"U.S. Considers Cutting Ties With Arafat" (Alan Sipress, The Washington Post, 2002/01/25)
"As PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's credibility with the Bush administration reaches a new low, U.S. officials are weighing whether to suspend their two-month-old peacemaking mission or even sever contact with the Palestinian leader altogether. ... Some administration officials, in particular those centered in Vice President Cheney's office, want to see the United States break its ties with Arafat because they consider him to be untrustworthy and tainted by terrorism, officials said. ... White House officials were particularly exasperated by a letter Arafat sent to Bush within the past week in which Arafat said he knew nothing about the arms shipment, according to sources familiar with the correspondence. Officials were incredulous, finding his denial insulting."

"Suicide bomber strikes Tel Aviv" (BBC News, 2002/01/25)
"At least 22 people are reported to have been injured, three seriously, in an apparent suicide bomb blast in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. ... Police say they found the remains of a bag containing explosives and nails nearby. Another bag was found a short distance away containing a weapon and ammunition, suggesting a second attack was planned. Several Palestinians have been detained by police for questioning."

"Afghans to carry on stoning criminals" (Alex Spillius, The Daily Telegraph, 2002/01/25)
"Criminals in Afghanistan will face Taliban-style punishments including amputations and stonings as part of the interim government's drive to keep down crime, the chief justice said yesterday. ... Chief Justice Fazul Hadi Shinwari said he wanted adulterers whipped or stoned to death, the hands of robbers amputated and murderers publicly executed. Proselytising Christians may face the death penalty and Muslims who drink alcohol could be given 80 lashes. ... Unlike the Taliban system, Mr Shinwari promised that criminals would be fairly investigated and tried. "The charges and the punishment will be dropped if we don't have witnesses and reliable proof," he told Reuters."

"How ridiculous can you guys get" (Mark Steyn, The Spectator, from the 2002/01/26 issue)
"Still, my colleagues may be heartened to know that Britain's getting far more attention for its anti-Americanism than it did when it was backing Bush 100 per cent. ... Your side really has got a coalition: Britain, Mary Robinson, the EU, UN, Red Cross. And it's making quite an impression: many people over here had no idea quite how ridiculous you are. You're shocked by us, we’re laughing at you. ... The West won’t work if every country's Canada and every leader's Trudeau. The only thing that enables Belgium to be Belgium and Norway to be Norway and Britain to be Britain is the fact that America’s America - for all the reasons my Spectator colleagues deplore."

"Profiles in Timidity" (The Wall Street Journal, 2002/01/25)
"If a would-be Islamic terrorist from the Middle East logged on to the guidelines, he'd have to conclude that one of the best ways to get through airport security would be to disguise himself as, well, an Islamic terrorist from the Middle East. According to DOT standards, speaking Arabic, appearing to be from the Mideast, wearing a veil (for women) or a beard (for men) are all reasons not to be singled out. Airport screeners are informed that they may not "rely on generalized stereotypes or attitudes or beliefs about the propensity of members of any racial, ethnic, religious, or national origin group to engage in unlawful activity." This is of course absurd."

"The Jackals Are Wrong" (Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post, 2002/01/25)
"An Iraqi soldier captured in Kuwait is a prisoner of war entitled to the protections of the Geneva Convention. An al Qaeda fighter captured anywhere is not. By self-definition, al Qaeda members are unlawful combatants, meaning people who fight outside the recognized rules of war. Among the distinguishing characteristics of unlawful combatants are these: They deliberately attack civilians, and they deliberately infiltrate among civilians by not wearing an insignia or uniform. ... You join al Qaeda, you join an outlaw army. You explicitly violate - and thus forfeit the protection of - the Geneva Convention. Indeed, denying such murderers POW rights vindicates the Geneva Convention and encourages others to adhere to it, by reserving its protections for those who observe its strictures."

 

Thursday, January 24, 2002

News and commentary:

"Tolerance does not mean stupidity" (Marianne M. Jennings, Jewish World Review, 2002/01/24)
"While the U.S. was the victim on September 11, it remains an apologist, running a global sensitivity seminar while trying to wage war. ... Reuters News Service has banned the term "terrorist" as judgmental. ... "Operation Enduring Freedom" was nearly halted during Ramadan because Muslim leaders hooted. The State Department wrung its hands. ... Hair removal was the only method for delousing that was available in Afghanistan. Prior to boarding them on ships bound for Guantanamo Bay the Navy felt it hygienically best that the men be shaved and shorn. War is hell. ... Military action and sensitivity don't mix. Lice trump religious beards. War trumps holiday breaks. Safety trumps offense. Tolerance does not mean stupidity."

"John Walker Lindh makes first court appearance" (CNN.com, 2002/01/24)
"American Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh made his first U.S. court appearance Thursday - saying he understood the charges that he conspired to kill his fellow Americans in Afghanistan. ... When asked by U.S. Magistrate Judge W. Curtis Sewell whether he understood the charges, Walker Lindh responded, "Yes, I do," and when asked if he understood that if convicted he could be sentenced to life in prison, he said, "Yes, I understand." ... The criminal complaint alleges Walker Lindh learned this past summer from one of his instructors at a terrorist training camp that Osama bin Laden "had sent people to the United States to carry out several suicide operations." The complaint also alleges Walker Lindh received personal thanks from bin Laden for 'taking part in jihad.'"

"Arafat's suicide initiative" (Uri Dan, The Jerusalem Post, 2002/01/24)
"But it is definitely Israel's concern when Arafat, in his Ramallah declaration, actually called on his supporters in clear and simple Arabic to follow in his footsteps. "I shall come to Jerusalem as a shahid or alive," Arafat declared almost in a shout. Perhaps the British, French, or German foreign offices won't understand this, but a "shahid" is a martyr, like the Palestinian suicide bombers who murdered so many innocent people in the Dolphin-arium in Tel Aviv and the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem. In his public declaration, Arafat not only spoke for the first time of his own readiness to die, to become a martyr for Jerusalem, but also called on every Palestinian to follow his example."

 

Wednesday, January 23, 2002

News and commentary:

"Run, Osama, Run" (Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times, 2002/01/23)
"On the way back from Kabul, I passed through Pakistan, the Persian Gulf, London and Belgium, where I had a variety of talks with Arab and Muslim journalists and business people and Muslim community leaders in Europe. All of them were educated, intelligent and thoughtful - and virtually none of them believed that Osama bin Laden was guilty."

"Rumsfeld Defends U.S. Treatment of Detainees in Cuba" (Katharine Q. Seeyle, The New York Times, 2002/01/23)
"Mr. Rumsfeld said it was "probably unfortunate" that the photographs were released, at least without an explanation. He said the prisoners had been photographed in a holding area just before their restraints were removed and they were put in their cages. "If you want to think the worst about things, you can," he said. But he argued that whenever prisoners, especially those who are dangerous and suicidal, are transported, it only makes sense to lock them in restraints. 'When they are being moved from place to place, will they be restrained in a way so that they are less likely to be able to kill an American soldier? You bet. Is it inhumane to do that? No. Would it be stupid to do anything else? Yes.'"

 

Tuesday, January 22, 2002

News and commentary:

"Atrocities in Guantanamo and other Fruit Loops tales" (Margaret Wente, The Globe and Mail, 2002/01/22)
"I had a nightmare that I was flying on an airplane with both a terrorist and Liberal MP John Godfrey. The terrorist tried to ignite the fuse in his shoe bomb and blow the plane to smithereens. As the other passengers jumped all over him and strapped him down with belts and ties, Mr. Godfrey leaped to his feet and started shouting, "Remember the Geneva Convention!" ... There are a lot of people who are out to catch the Americans committing war crimes. They keep at it in the teeth of all the evidence. "Torture!" screamed the Daily Mail, a British tabloid, over a picture of some Taliban fighters in shackles. ... So far, there's not a shred of evidence that the Americans have mistreated anyone, unless you call forced shaving mistreatment." (Note: The Independent incidentally sees it as far worse than mistreatment: "To take one example, the shaving of heads and beards of some prisoners is not just degrading; it also hands America's enemies a priceless propaganda gift. It is almost as if America seems bent on confirming the claims of the fanatics that the war on terror was, in fact, a war on Islam." (The Independent, 2002/01/22))

"Al Aqsa claims responsibility for Jerusalem shooting" (CNN.com, 2002/01/22)
"The military arm of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement claimed responsibility for a shooting in central Jerusalem Tuesday that injured more than 40 people. Forty-six people were taken to hospitals, at least six of them suffering from serious wounds, ambulance workers said. ... The gunman was killed by police, Jerusalem Police Chief Mikki Levy said. The Al Aqsa Military Brigades identified the gunman as Saeed Ibrihim Ramadan, 24, from a village near Nablus. The brigades said Ramadan's attack was in revenge for the killing of Fatah leader Raed al-Karmi on January 14 and for the deaths of four Hamas activists who were killed in an Israeli raid in the West Bank town of Nablus earlier Tuesday. The Israel Defense Forces said the Nablus raid targeted an explosives laboratory, and said the people killed were terrorists. The raid prompted a vow by the Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas that it would wage an "all out war" against Israel."

"X-ray photographs" (The Times, 2002/01/22)
"The allies are fighting a fierce enemy, one that must not be underestimated. It is this realistic view of the position that explains both the treatment of the prisoners and the decision to publish photographs of them. ... Some believe releasing these photographs to be a bad blunder, undermining the moral case for the allies and strengthening Islamic fundamentalism. This is wrong. Despite brave talk about loving death the way that Westerners love life, many of the followers and potential followers of Osama bin Laden are moved by the threat and reality of force. Showing the toughness of the United States and its willingness to do what is necessary will not recruit new Muslim extremists, it will do the opposite."

 

Monday, January 21, 2002

News and commentary:

"Don't shed any tears for prisoners in Cuba" (Clifford Orwin, National Post, 2002/01/21)
"But the Americans' main concern with these detainees cannot be to punish them. For so long as al-Qaeda remains a menace, trial and punishment are beside the point, except inasmuch as the threat of them facilitates intelligence gathering. Convictions won't help the Americans, but plea bargains can. ... Nothing the Americans have done so far presents a clear violation of international law. But we have to put first things first. A government's first duty is to defend its people. You be the U.S. President who informs his people that he would really have liked to do everything in his power to protect them from further acts of mass murder, but it would have offended Amnesty International. Should the West ever be so delusional as to respond to a lawless enemy by lapsing into feckless legalism, on that day - although I hate a cliché as much as the next man, still, there's no denying it: The Terrorists Will Have Won."

"Johnnie Walker Blackened" (Christopher Hitchens, The Nation, 2002/01/21)
"Consider the following. On September 11, you could not fly and I could not fly. The national airspace was locked down. But twenty-four members of the bin Laden family, living in the United States, were gathered by private jet under the auspices of Prince Bandar Bin-Sultan, the Saudi ambassador in Washington. With what he gratefully describes as the cooperation of the FBI, the Prince mustered all the bin Ladens, who at the first opportunity were taken under FBI escort to Boston's Logan Airport (departure point for two of the death squads) and then permitted to fly home with no questions asked. I do not think that any question of racial profiling would have been involved if members of the immediate bin Laden tribe had been inconvenienced to the extent of being asked a few questions. Boasting of this amazing coup on October 1, Prince Bandar told Larry King an affecting story about one of these privileged escapees: "But you know what hurt me? A young man said to me, "Prince Bandar, I always couldn't understand why the American Japanese wanted a memorial. What's the big deal?" He said: "Suddenly I realize: I'm a rich man, I'm in Harvard, and I have to leave my school, not because I was guilty, but because the emotions are high." That really touched me, Larry." It really, really, touches me, too. In subsequent days the Saudi regime refused to supply information on the sixteen of its citizens who had committed the mass murder, declined the requests for a closure of bin Laden charities on its soil, refused to allow Tony Blair to visit and (in the person of its Interior Minister, Prince Nayef) described the liberation of Afghanistan from the Taliban as a matter of "killing innocent people." On top of this, a prince appears on prime time to borrow the rhetoric of American liberals about the historic injustice inflicted by Earl Warren and FDR on the Japanese-Americans in 1942. Yet where is the outrage?"

"Shipping out - Why the 'Karine A' story failed to register on some radar screens" (Jonathan Tobin, Jewish World Review, 2002/01/21)
"The answer to the problem could be found in the lead of an Associated Press wire story on the Palestinian captain's confession, that was published on The Philadelphia Inquirer's Jan. 4 front page. ... The story characterized that mission as one whose purpose was to "help the outgunned Palestinians defend themselves." Ironically, instead than dispelling the myth that Israel is attacking the Palestinians during Arafat's 16-month war, that line reinforced it. The ship story was thus distorted to look a bit like heroic Palestinian resistance to Israeli "occupation." Like some of the coverage on television, that story and many others seemed to approach it from a very different frame of reference. It didn't highlight the flagrant violation of the Oslo accords that showed the Palestinians preparing for further violence against Israel and an escalation of the war. Instead of a story of terror avoided, the coverage often appeared to start from the point of view that the Palestinians were justified in finding better ways to kill Israelis."

"A Deadly Error" (Daniel Pipes, New York Post/danielpipes.org, 2002/01/21)
"U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) guidelines issued after Sept. 11 forbid airline personnel from relying on "generalized stereotypes or attitudes or beliefs about the propensity of members of any racial, ethnic, religious, or national origin group to engage in unlawful activity." Appearing to be Middle Eastern, speaking a Middle Eastern language, or having a Middle Eastern accent are inadmissible grounds for paying special attention to a passenger, as are Islamic attributes such as a woman's veil or a man's beard. ... It's like having reports of a tall, bearded mugger but requiring the police to devote equal attention to short females. ... The question boils down to this: How many more lives must be unnecessarily lost before American leaders have the courage to stand up to political correctness?"

"The Symbionese Terror and the Academic Left" (Bruce S. Thornton, FrontPageMagazine, 2002/01/21)
"But in the American university, the political flavor of one's idealism, not one's actions, is what counts. Any belief or even rhetoric allegedly "progressive" functions like a plenary indulgence. Just say that you are full of righteous indignation over the suffering of the oppressed, and you will be forgiven a multitude of sins, including attempted murder - especially if your victims are the culprits (the police or other "bourgeois" enemies of the people) dehumanized by the left. Then even cold-blooded murderers like Mumia Abu-Jamal can be canonized by the international left, the same people who once groveled before mass-murderers like Chairman Mao."

"The Human Rights Fraud" (The Wall Street Journal, 2002/01/21)
"Afghans may have danced in the street and ripped off their burkhas when the war on terror liberated them from the Taliban. But judging from the latest survey by Human Rights Watch, the world might have been better off had the Taliban liberated Washington, D.C., instead. We exaggerate only slightly. In its annual survey of rights around the world, released last week, Human Rights Watch devotes at least three times as much critical space to America as to any other country. And it treats the war on terror as a far greater threat to humanity than terrorism itself. ... "Washington stands out because its resistance to enforceable human rights standards has been most fundamental," its report actually says. More fundamental than, say, Sudan's? ... But this report is off the wall. It harks back to the kind of left-wing moral equivalence we haven't seen since the fall of the Berlin Wall."

"Captive Britons have 'no complaints'" (BBC News, 2002/01/21)
One would think that the Guantanamo Bay prisoners themselves would complain if they were "brutalised, tortured and humiliated" as The Mirror formulated it yesterday: "The three British al-Qaeda suspects being held at Camp X-Ray in Cuba have "no complaints" about their treatment, according to British officials who have seen them. The three are in "good physical health" and are being treated well, they reported. ... The three British nationals in the camp were "able to speak freely and without inhibition," he added. 'There is no sign of any mistreatment.'"

"Not your business, Mr Straw" (The Daily Telegraph, 2002/01/21)
"Yesterday's Mail on Sunday, on the basis of a few photographs, told its readers that the suspects had been "tortured". This has sparked some predictable howls of rage from America's traditional foes on the Left - may [sic] of whom were oddly silent when the Taliban were practising genuine torture on their own citizens. ... Responding to the tabloid outrage, the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has raised the issue with the authorities. ... Unless we have evidence that they have been wrongly arrested, we have no business interfering. America is a close ally, and a country with which we have an extradition treaty. We should be very sure of our ground before we start questioning the validity of its legal system. Perhaps Mr Straw would be better occupied in turning his mind to the question of why people raised in this country should feel so little loyalty to it that they are prepared to cross half the world to fight against us."

"The West's security rests safely in American hands" (Bruce Anderson, Independent, 2002/01/21)
"Yet some British newspapers, which normally know better, have been using the word "torture'' to describe the Americans' treatment of these Afghan irreconcilables. In order to remind themselves as to the meaning of the word torture, the editorial staffs ought to examine the pictures taken in the dungeons where the Taliban used to deal with its prisoners. Whips, bludgeons, flesh-tearing pincers; that was torture, and it was not administered during the brisk exigencies of a disciplined air flight. It was administered over months, and it caused hideous suffering. ... The treatment of the prisoners on Guantanamo is of a piece with the rest of the Bush administration's behaviour since 11 September. It is based on tough-minded, unillusioned realism. The President and his associates instantly understood that they were dealing with a ruthless, implacable foe who hated everything America stood for and all Americans. Discarding the option of surrender, there can only be one response to such a foe: kill or be killed."

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