Anti-terror raids in New Zealand

**Parihaka** · 10-15-2007, 18:09 PM

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New Zealand police have allegedly discovered weapons training camps in a series of anti-terrorism raids under way today.

Prominent Maori activist Tame Iti was among those taken in by police, his lawyer Louis Tekani told Fairfax Media.

He is facing arms charges this afternoon in the Rotorua District Court and Mr Tekani denied any terrorism connection.

Police have been executing warrants under the Suppression of Terrorism Act and the Firearms Act in a series of co-ordinated raids.

The office of Prime Minister Helen Clark is being kept informed over what is going on.

Fairfax Media understands a top secret "O Desk" group met at the Beehive earlier this month to hear what was planned for today.

Weapons training camps were targeted by armed officers on properties throughout the country in this morning's raids, Police Commissioner Howard Broad confirmed.

Speaking at a media conference, Mr Broad said that police were acting on information that over 2006/2007 a number of people had been conducting and participating in training camps in the eastern Bay of Plenty involving the use of firearms and other weapons.

"Based on the information and the activity known to have taken place, I decided it was prudent that action should be taken in the interests of public safety."

More than 300 police staff were involved at the peak of the operation this morning. Many of them had now returned to their normal duties.

Searches of the scenes had resulted in the seizures of firearms and arrests for firearms offences.

He said that search warrants were obtained under the Summary Proceedings Act to search for evidence of offences being committed against the Arms Act and possibly the Terrorism Suppression Act.

Police would be gathering and assessing all available evidence before making a decision as to the nature of the charges to be laid under the TSA.

"We're aware that this is the first time that the Terrorism Suppression Act has been considered in terms of an operation.

"We are, therefore, proceeding with full care in talking to people and assessing information before we can determine whether there is sufficient evidence to seek the consent of the Attorney General through the Solicitor General to charge anyone under that Act."

Mr Broad said a number of firearms had been found in this morning's raids.

He said around 10 people had been arrested and police expected to lay charges against them.

Once the operation was over police would assess all information before them before charging anyone under the Terrorism Act.

He urged people not to jump to conclusions.

Investigation would take quite a bit of time before being completed. In due course the full facts would be placed before the courts.

Campaigners from various Maori sovereignty, environmental and "peace" groups are implicated.

"These guys are serious. They are talking of killing people," a source said.

Mr Iti was woken at 4am today.

"From what he's told me, he heard someone rustling outside and from there the police issued instructions for him to come out," Mr Tekani said.

"He's co-operated with the police and nothing untoward has happened."

Although he was in the Rotorua police cells no charges had been laid and Mr Tekani had seen no summary of facts. He said there was no suggestion of terrorism.

"If it wasn't so serious it would be laughable," he said.

"To charge someone for terrorism type offences is a serious matter. It will be interesting to see what the summary of facts says."

Mr Tekani said locals figured something was happening as early as Saturday because of unusual police traffic in the area.

The Terrorism Suppression Act 2002 requires the police to seek the approval of the Attorney-General before court proceedings are initiated.

More than 60 other people from around the country who have allegedly been recorded talking to, and in some cases training with, the arrested group will also be brought in for questioning.

Some of them are known to have pulled out once they realised the level of violence allegedly being planned.

Police units infiltrated the training camps during months of investigation - sometimes being within metres of those allegedly firing live rounds.

Investigators believe although the groups were training together, they were each planning to hit targets related to their own interests although all the hits would be co-ordinated to cause maximum chaos and stretching police resources across the country.

Rotorua lawyer Annette Sykes said this morning's raids were "overkill" and likened them to "the invasions last century".

"A lot of people had their homes entered this morning," she said.

Ms Sykes said she could not understand why police were using the Suppression of Terrorism Act to conduct the raids.

"They've screwed the people everywhere," she said.

I actually posted this in the "only in New Zealand" thread but then figured it deserved it's own one.

Speculation since the initial announcement was that it was an exclusively Maori thing but it turns out a number of groups across ethnicities including extremist environmentalist and 'peace' groups all cooperating and training together with the agenda of attacking their specific ideological based targets simultaneously to inflict maximum chaos.
The police have been watching them for at least the past year and decided to act after the accused managed to set off their first successful napalm bomb.
The house raided in Wellington is about a mile from us and has been used for years as an 'anarchist' drop in centre and doss-house. The regulars are of course your standard smelly dole-bludgers and professional protesters.

**Parihaka** · 10-15-2007, 18:41 PM

Raided group's plans 'will horrify middle NZ'

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One left-leaning commentator who says he has links to political activist movements says "middle New Zealand will recoil in horror" when it hears the reasons behind yesterday's raids by police.
View video: PM among terror targets?
Napalm found in swoop ... Guerrillas in the mist ... Charges under Terrorism Supression Act ... Tame Iti's many roles

Martyn "Bomber" Bradbury said on one blog site that he had been talking to people in the activist community and was concerned that the activities of some "clowns" could lead to a backlash from the wider public.

"If the allegations as I understand them are true, this country is about to get very, very, very angry," Mr Bradbury said.

"Though I don't believe for one moment what will be revealed is anything more than stupid arrogant boasts... middle New Zealand will recoil in horror."

Police yesterday arrested 17 people after executing search warrants carried out under the Firearms Act and the Terrorism Suppression Act in Wellington, Auckland, Palmerston North, Christchurch, Hamilton, Whakatane and Ruatoki, which is 20 kilometres south of Whakatane.

Police Commissioner Howard Broad said the raids were the culmination of a year-long investigation into weapons training camps alleged to have been held in the Eastern Bay of Plenty.

Firearms and reportedly a napalm bomb were seized in the raids.

Fourteen people including high profile Maori activist Tame Iti appeared in court yesterday.

Iti, facing eight charges relating to possessing firearms and molotov cocktails, is due to reappear in Rotorua District Court again this afternoon to apply for bail.

Assistant Police commissioner Jon White said today there was at least one area in Ruatoki that was still subject to being searched and police wanted to talk to more people.

"The operation was not completed yesterday. There's a number of inquiries to complete as you might expect when you undertake activities of this scale and nature - it leads to other inquiries and so our work is far from finished," he said on Radio New Zealand.

However, police had scaled back their presence in Ruatoki, he said.

Waiariki MP Te Ururoa Flavell yesterday questioned the manner in which police had carried out the raids in Ruatoki and the surrounding Urewera Valley.

He said a school bus was searched and Maori families living in the area felt "intimidated" and "harassed" by the anti-terrorism raids.

Mr White said police obtained warrants under the Terrorism Suppression Act, despite the offenders only facing firearms charges, because police believed there was evidence which could point towards offences under the act.

"We have to go to the solicitor-general, who has the delegated authority under the attorney-general, to gives his consent to any charges under the Terrorism Suppression Act."

The commissioner was assessing all the evidence before he decided whether or not he would apply to the solicitor-general to lay charges under the Act, he said.

In his blog, Mr Bradbury said he believed the police had been right to be concerned.

"There is going to be outrage when the full story gets out the likes of which talkback has never dreamt of."

Mr Bradbury gained some public attention for his public defences of Tim Selwyn who was jailed for sedition.

Elsewhere on anarchist web sites and independent media blogs meetings and protests were being against what they described as continuing repression by the state.

RAIDED CAMPS 'FOCUSSED ON HEALTH AND EDUCATION'

A member of the group running "weapons" training camps in the eastern Bay of Plenty raided by police yesterday were merely running fitness camps with an emphasis on health and education.

The man, known only as Dave, said the organisation was about 4000-strong and had been running monthly fitness camps in the Ureweras for more than a year.

He described the group as well-organised and well-disciplined, focusing on racism, mental health and "corruption in our Government".

Dave said the camps were training for health.

"You go down there, it's a very open forum. You can talk about things, you can go for a decent trek through the bush but you have to be reasonably fit do so."

He refused to comment on whether weapons were involved in the camps or with the group, but did say: "We have the ability to protect New Zealand in the event of any threat from any other country".

Dave said the group was not just about activism, although it did want land titles changed so land was returned to Maori.

It was made up of Europeans, Maori, Pacific Islanders and Americans. It was open to men and women and had no links to terrorist organisations.

"It's not a Maori activist bunch of people. We are there for fitness, we are there for education, we are there for mental health and we are there for the long-term goals of New Zealanders."

Maori broadcaster and Nga Puhi elder Kingi Taurua, who was approached by Tame Iti to teach "bush craft survival" in the Urewera ranges, said he saw nothing sinister in the courses.

"I don't know nothing about weapons. All he said was to train the kids [in] bushcraft survival in the bush."

Iti told him he was training young people and asked him to help because of his experience in the army, Mr Taurua told Radio New Zealand.

"I didn't see anything wrong with teaching people. I mean if you ring me and asked me to teach you how to survive in the bush, I will teach you and that's what it was.

"That's how I took it. I thought it was a good idea to teach young people survival skills."

He was unable to do it because he had other commitments and had to look after his wife, who had suffered a stroke, during the weekends, he said.

He had spoken to police about this yesterday, and everything that had gone on had given him a "bloody fright", Mr Taurua said.

"It gave me the bloody shits...and I'm bloody glad I didn't go."

And some more.

**Parihaka** · 11-13-2007, 17:23 PM

An update.
Since the initial raids, this has of course become a political issue. Despite only 3 of the 16 arrested being Tuhoe, the tribe has been claiming full victim status, the general consensus being that the police use of the terrorism legislation was unjustified.

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Maori Party calls for resignation, apology, compensation
NZPA | Thursday, 8 November 2007

Police Commissioner Howard Broad should resign after police incited fears Maori terrorists were ready to act, the Maori Party said today.

It also wants police to compensate the people of Ruatoki and Tuhoe for the damage done to homes, property and their feelings as a result of the police raids.

And it says the Tuhoe people are owed an apology from police.

People arrested during police raids over alleged training camps in Bay of Plenty will not face charges under the Terrorism Suppression Act after Solicitor General David Collins said he was "unable to authorise" the prosecutions under the Act.

Maori Party co-leader Pita Sharples said use of the Terrorism Suppression Act was "too severe" and that had been vindicated by Dr Collins.

He said the Maori Party expected police to make "full compensation for the structural damage to the people of Ruatoki and around Tuhoe".

"We're talking about the damage to their houses and property, we're talking about the damage to their ... feelings."

Maori Party co-leader Tariana Turia said New Zealanders had been terrified at the thought there could be terrorists in their midst, and police should not have tried to use terrorism laws.

Charges could have been laid under the Crimes Amendment Act, she said.

"This has placed the police in an invidious position and our party will be calling for the resignation of Howard Broad," she said.

"The mere fact that he chose the anti-terrorism Act means that as far as I'm concerned, he should resign. He knew that that was a high threshold, he knew it would terrify other New Zealanders to think that we have terrorism in our midst."

Police had "scared the nation" with the thought there were terrorists here.

Mrs Turia said New Zealand's reputation had also been damaged and there were people overseas thinking "what is being experienced in America, in Iraq, in Baghdad and possibly in Iran can happen here in New Zealand".

Mr Broad and Police Association president Greg O'Connor, who had commented on the matter, should go to the Tuhoe people and apologise, she said.

The party had not been opposed to police acting on those involved in illegal activity.

"But what we are opposed to is the way in which the police turned this into an act of terrorism, terrified the whole community, terrified the country when they didn't need to, " she said.

Maori Party MP Te Ururoa Flavell said the Ruatoki community had been traumatised by the raids, and had been stuck with the terrorist label.

Police had made a bad "error of judgement", he said.

Dr Sharples said this had to be the last time police went in "storm trooper-style" into people's homes and villages.

A spokesman said Prime Minister Helen Clark had noted Dr Collins' decision.

The solicitor general had made the point, however, that 16 people were facing serious charges under the Arms Act.

She also noted Dr Collins was satisfied police had sufficient and proper basis for investigating under the Terrorism Suppression Act and referring the evidence to his office.

Attorney General Michael Cullen said he would act on the solicitor general's recommendation to refer the Terrorism Suppression Act to the Law Commission for consideration.

He noted, that contrary to what some had been saying in recent weeks, the solicitor general stated the Act had a "high threshold for the laying of terrorism-related charges".

Green MP Keith Locke said Dr Collins had had a clear test to meet: "Evidently, the hurdle proved too high for the police to meet."

The decision was the first step back towards a more sensible assessment of the terrorism risks facing the country.

"The solicitor-general is to be congratulated for ensuring that criminal charges are pursued and prosecuted in the criminal courts while political action is treated as a threat to national security in only the most extreme situations - which this case evidently was not," Mr Locke said.

As is alluded to in the case, the solicitor general decided that prosecutions for terrorism should not go ahead as it was unjustified under the current legislation. As he was briefed regularly on the investigation and the arrests prior to them happening, it's interesting that only after the arrests did he say they were unjustified as part of his role is to guide police in the legislations use. However, here is a report on his decision.

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Terror laws 'incoherent' - no charges to be laid
The existing terror laws should be amended, Solicitor General David Collins QC said today.

The existing terror laws should be amended, Solicitor General David Collins QC said today.
4:55PM Thursday November 08, 2007
By Edward Gay

Solicitor General David Collins QC announced this afternoon that cases against 12 of the Urewera 16 did not warrant prosecution under the Terror Suppression Act, but could go ahead under the Arms Act.

But, while commending the police investigation, he described the terror legislation as "complex and incoherent", and said it should be reviewed by the Law Commission. He said it was almost impossible to apply to domestic terrorists.

Mr Collins told a media conference he had read hundreds of pages of communications and viewed photographs and video footage.

"Regrettably not all the evidence I have been able to see will be made public," Mr Collins said.

"The key reason I am not prepared to authorise prosecutions under the act is there is insufficient evidence to establish to the very high standard required that a group was preparing a terrorist act," Mr Collins said.

He said his decision was not a criticism of the police who had no doubt "put an end to disturbing activities".

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But he said a lot of the evidence will be made public during the up-coming trials.

"Police were following proper practice under the Terrorism Suppression Act," Mr Collins said.

Tuhoe spokesman Tamati Kruger says it's a "triumph for truth", after the Solicitor General's decision not to prosecute the Urewera 12 under the Terrorism Suppression Act.

Police took 12 of the 16 cases to the Solicitor General last month who assessed the police's evidence.

Peter Williams QC is representing residents of Ruatoki who have complained about the way armed police searched their homes last month.

Mr Williams said the Solicitor General's decision was a wise one and he was personally pleased with it.

"In a small way they have contributed to the hysteria possibly being emitted by certain aspects of the prosecution but on the other hand it's not the issue the people of Ruatoki are looking at, they're looking at whether or not there was a form of terrorism by the police themselves," Mr Williams said.

As I say, it's interesting that despite his role to advise police, he was only able to rule against the charges after the event and because of this the wire-tapping evidence was to remain suppressed as it could only be used in a terrorism charge, not the much lesser arms charges they now face.

**Parihaka** · 11-13-2007, 17:27 PM

So there it would have rested; claims of innocence, the evidence suppressed and no doubt compensation claimed: until this morning, when two local newspapers who had 'obtained' the bail evidence the police presented during the initial hearings.

THE TERRORISM FILES

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'Get someone to assassinate the prime minister, the new one, next year's one. Just been in office five days, bang ... Yeah John Key ... just drop a bomb.'
PHIL KITCHIN - The Dominion Post | Wednesday, 14 November 2007

Today The Dominion Post reveals the secret evidence police amassed while investigating suspected terrorism activity in New Zealand. Compiled from hundreds of hours of covert surveillance, this is the intelligence that led to armed police conducting their controversial raids. This is the public's first chance to fully assess the merits of the police investigation.
Editorial: More than empty talk in Ureweras
Police to investigate newspapers over terror files

Secret surveillance of Urewera bush camp trainees reveals discussions about killing people for practice, throwing Molotov cocktails into gas-filled buildings, blowing up power stations, television networks and the Waihopai spy base.

Electronic bugs also revealed United States President George W Bush as a possible target, and a discussion about assassinating National leader John Key.

Police say their bugs also picked up talk of copying IRA and Iraqi guerrilla tactics by using hit-and-run squads for bush and urban warfare.

The Dominion Post has obtained the 156-page affidavit presented by police to Manukau District Court. The information in it was used to obtain search warrants when police suspected terrorist plots were under way. It provides details from hundreds of bugged conversations and text messages, descriptions of police video footage - and the reasons why police believed people were training to be terrorists.

The affidavit was sworn on October 10 by a detective sergeant from special investigations, a unit that scrutinises radical groups and issues of national security. Five days later, armed police raided the suspects.

The affidavit says that, between November 2006 and September this year, six "quasi-military training camps" were held in the Ruatoki area. Police say the trainees planned to use small squads to commit terrorist acts.

Bugged conversations recorded talk of plans for urban and rural warfare, of killing police, removing Pakeha farmers, assassinating politicians and committing actions so brutal that the public would think al Qaeda was responsible.

On August 16 this year, police intercepted a conversation between two suspects in a car. They discussed Mr Bush and speculation that he could visit New Zealand - and talked of using a sniper's rifle.

The police affidavit says: "I believe this relates to a hypothetical conversation about how they could kill the president of the United States of America, George Bush, and a conversation about the effectiveness of firearms."

In another bugged conversation, in a car on August 17, a suspect talks of killing Mr Key after the next election: "Get someone to assassinate the prime minister, the new one, next year's one. Just been in office five days, bang ... Yeah, John Key ... just drop a bomb ... Just wait till he visits somewhere and just blow them ... They won't even find you."

In another bugged phone call, on July 21 this year, a suspect says Tuhoe would go to war for the Ureweras "so we, we gotta make a plan how we're gonna block in the bloody place, shutting the whole place down". According to the affidavit, another suspect responds, "That's what I wanna hear," and another says, "So I got a couple of years to have fun."

One suspect talks of a strategic bombing campaign and using violence so extreme it would divide New Zealand. Another talks of doing what the IRA did in Britain: "It's all about guerrilla, guerrilla war ... It's about hiding and being able to fight another day."

Another talks of training for two years, focusing only on going to war, and handpicking an IRA-type cell to kill and create chaos, the affidavit says.

In other bugged conversations, police say they heard talk of making nail bombs, targeting Parliament and screening recruits. Conversations refer to IRA and al Qaeda training manuals and police say one suspect said he would show another how to make napalm.

One suspect is said to have talked of making a sniper's camouflage suit and obtaining a rifle capable of killing from 2500 metres. Police say one suspect said 100 people had been through the camps, but that 50 would be enough to start a war if they were well-trained.

The affidavit says surveillance of training camps shows:

# Vehicle ambushes and military-style drills with live rounds.
# "Terrifying" counter-interrogation training, including holding guns to participants' backs and accusing one of being a police informant.
# How to throw Molotov cocktails.
# How to extract colleagues under rifle fire.

In the background to the affidavit, police say one trainee using the codename Bl@ckmask hacked into the National Party website in 2004.

The affidavit says police watched or recorded trainees leaving their homes around the country and heading toward Ruatoki, often picking up others en route. Police say they stopped following the suspects once they drove into Ruatoki, for fear of being discovered, but they installed video cameras on accessways and at campsites, and bugged a camp meal room and sleeping room.

At the last of the camps, police say surveillance picked up 18 people and 14 firearms.

**Parihaka** · 11-13-2007, 17:29 PM

And here is the Dominion posts editorial justification for publishing some of the evidence it 'acquired'

Editorial: More than empty talk in Ureweras

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The Dominion Post | Wednesday, 14 November 2007

The Dominion Post has not taken lightly the decision to publish material from evidence gathered by the police in Operation Eight.

We believe we are acting within the law. We also believe we are acting in the public interest. We know that publishing the material could have huge repercussions, and we considered the issues at stake carefully before deciding to go ahead.

Those still facing firearms charges are entitled to a fair trial, but those trials are a year or more away. Revealing now what police found relating to the terrorism charges they wished to lay, but which the solicitor-general declined to authorise, will not influence those firearms cases. To help ensure that we removed the names from the material.

We understand that some will share the view of Peter Williams, QC, that revealing what the police found is, on the face of it, inexcusable. However, it is in the public interest that the public see as much of the material as possible. The issues that have been raised around the police raids are serious, and go to the heart of the way democracy works in New Zealand.

The police have been accused of over-reacting, and of being racist. Supporters of those accused have argued there is nothing to justify the operation the police mounted, that notions of domestic terrorism are as insubstantial as the Urewera mist, and that those arrested are the victims of some sort of vendetta. They argue that those the police arrested are blameless. Their claims have not been tested in any meaningful way till now.

Solicitor-General David Collins, Qc, has spoken of "very disturbing activities". The material in the affidavit the police submitted to obtain search warrants more than confirms that description.

Some will continue to dismiss much of what was intercepted as the empty talk of people with delusions of guerrilla grandeur. They will say the police should not have taken seriously those who allegedly discussed assassinating National Party leader John Key should he become prime minister at the next election. They will still argue that the police were over-reacting when suspects allegedly discussed creating urban and rural warfare, killing police, removing Pakeha farmers, and committing actions so brutal people would think al Qaeda had arrived.

However, they will find it harder to dismiss what the affidavit says the police surveillance uncovered - trainees at camps in the Ureweras ambushing vehicles and carrying out military-style drills with live rounds, taking part in "terrifying" counter-interrogation training including holding guns to participants' backs and accusing a suspect of being a police informant, throwing Molotov cocktails, posting sentries and carrying out military drills.

That is more than empty talk. Police needed to treat that seriously and needed to investigate. To do anything less would have been to fail in their duty to protect New Zealanders. We believe that the police were right to act.

However, we also believe the public has the right to make its own judgment on the police's credibility, and to do that it needs as much information as possible, within the bounds of the law and within the bounds of fairness to all those involved. That is why we decided to publish.

**Parihaka** · 11-13-2007, 17:31 PM

Don't be surprised if the links I provided go down, the courts are moving against the paper as I type.

So, this morning a hikoi (protest march) protesting the arrests is due at parliament, it'll be interesting to see their reception.

**Parihaka** · 11-13-2007, 17:38 PM

Police to investigate newspapers over terror files

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NZPA | Wednesday, 14 November 2007

Police will now include The Dominion Post and The Press in its investigation into the leaking of suppressed documents on police raids to TV3.

Deputy Commissioner Operations Rob Pope said this morning the scope of the investigation, announced on Monday, will be expanded to include The Dominion Post material, and any other publication which could be considered to breach court suppression orders or potentially compromise criminal proceedings.

Solicitor-General David Collins QC told reporters today whether The Dominion Post and The Press were prosecuted was for the police to decide.

He refused to comment whether publication of the material was in contempt of court.

TV3 said it had decided against discussing the leaked documents on Campbell Live after being warned doing so would open them up to contempt charges.

Dr Collins said he would put out a written statement this morning, pointing out it was a criminal offence to possess interceptions and communications belonging to the police.

Police began an investigation on Monday into whether TV3 has documents which breach court suppression orders made after last month's police raids on so-called weapons training camps in the Ureweras.

The Solicitor-General last week ruled against charges being pursued under the Terrorism Suppression Act against 12 of the 16 arrested in the raids.

However, they all still face charges involving illegal possession of weapons.

Peter Williams QC this morning called for an investigation into how suppressed information was leaked and its publication.

"I think there are two issues here. One is the right of the public to know matters of importance. But the other issue is the rule of law and the rule of law is quite clear that where evidence is inadmissible and where defendants have not had their cases completed it is contempt of court to publish that material," he told Radio New Zealand.

"The rule of law is of paramount importance to democracy and I would expect now the attorney-general or the solicitor-general to commence a high-level investigation, because this goes to the basic fundamentals of our legal system."

Mr Williams said The Dominion Post could expect a degree of public support for its actions, "and maybe their lawyers will be able, somehow, in a devious way, to justify the publication".

New Zealand First MP Ron Mark today said the information revealed in the newspaper articles was "deeply sinister" and police had no choice but to raid those involved in the paramilitary camps.

He said people should accept police had to act in the interest of public safety.

"Law-abiding citizens will be shocked at the material published and will want reassurance that these threats no longer exist."

Peter Williams QC is a lawyer who immediately after the raids offered his services to Tuhoe in any legal action against the Government. An ambulance chaser.

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