DEADLY ATTACK ALONG IRANIAN-PAKISTAN BORDER IN SISTAN-BALUCHISTAN – 6 Iranian border guards were killed in the clashes with a hitherto unknown terror group calling itself the Army of Justice on Sunday. It is thought the Army of Justice is a Sunni organization and is focused on fighting for the minority Sunni population in Iran. The militants had attempted to cross the border into Iran from Pakistan but details about the clash were limited. Iranian officials released a statement on the attack and said the regime believed the group had attempted to cause a border crisis between Pakistan and Iran. Pakistan condemned the attacks and swore to investigate the incident while Iran chastised its neighbor and called on Pakistan to do more in the fight against terrorism. It is not known if the Army of Justice terrorists sustained any casualties in the clash.
HELICOPTER CRASH IN SAMANGAN PROVINCE KILLS 2 – A light helicopter crashed in the Khulm District along the borders of Samangan and Balkh Provinces, killing the 2 pilots on Sunday. The helicopter was reported to be an MD-530 and had been flying a routine patrol out of Mazar-i-Sharif. After the crash, many rumors began appearing on social media that the crash had occurred as a result of Resistance ground fire, poor maintenance, and even as an act of sabotage against the Taliban. The official cause given by the Taliban was the crash was a result of a collision with power lines in the area.
HOUSE SEARCHES IN Daikundi, POSSIBLE NON-COMBATANT EXECUTIONS REPORTED – Several online media reports suggest that 3 Hazara non-combatants were executed in the Kian village of the Khidr District on Sunday. House-to-house searches were underway on Sunday night and continued well into the early hours of Monday morning. A source in Kabul said that an arms cache had been reported last week but was said to have been in another District. The reason for the killings has not been revealed and this information has yet to be confirmed.
TALIBAN DISTRICT GOVERNOR IN PAKTIA RESIGNS – Abdul Hamid Khorasani, a former Taliban Commander and Governor of the Ahmadaba District in Paktia has reportedly resigned his position in protest to the Taliban’s policies regarding ethnic representation in the government ranks. The former Governor is reputedly Tajik and came from Panjshir. This information has yet to be confirmed.
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TALIBAN SENDING ADDITIONAL FORCES TO DAIKUNDI – Approximately 30 trucks were dispatched to reinforce units in Daikundi Province. One column was coming from Kabul and the other was said to have been sent from Kandahar. Their objective is not immediately known, but it is possible that the rumored execution of Hazara non-combatants on Sunday may be valid and a security operation will be undertaken. At-risk Afghans in the area should expect to see additional house-to-house searches in the Khidr District.
PAKISTAN – With the former Prime Minister set to appear in front of the NAB on Tuesday, where he says he faces another arrest, we recommend that at-risk Afghans sheltering in the country use Monday to stock up on food and supplies in the event protests break out on Tuesday afternoon.
Two pilots were killed when a US-made military helicopter crashed in the north of #Afghanistan, the country’s defense ministry says. pic.twitter.com/I6gtZP5HbI
— Al-Estiklal English (@alestiklalen) May 21, 2023
"Allahu akbar! [CRASH!]"
Allah clearly refused to interest himself in the maintenance...
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Invite the mechanics on tests flights randomly and the maintenance will improve.
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Ours have been smacking down with unpleasant regularity lately; it's your turn.
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Re #1: My dad was a B-24 mechanic in WWII. Every so often, he would say to the pilot: "Sir, your plane is ready". Pilot: "Sure, Sergeant. Hop aboard. Let's go for a test flight" Dad: "Umm, sir, I just remembered I should check on the carburetor on the #2 engine".
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My Dad was the crew chief on a B-25. He said he always flew on the check flights. He loved flying any chance he got.
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[Garowe] A senior al-Shabaab ...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them... finance officer has been killed in Somalia, officials confirmed, in one of the most dramatic and sophisticated operations which comes days after the second phase of military campaigns against the forces of Evil was activated by President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.
Hassan Sheikh, who concluded his trip to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... recently, outlined his objectives and plan to eliminate the forces of Evil who have been wreaking havoc in the Horn of Africa nation which has struggled with instability for the last three decades.
Mahad Aqadub, who has been the head of Zakawat within Galgaduud in the Galmadug region, officials said, was killed during an operation conducted on Saturday, in what the military defined as "potentially great success". Zakawat officials are in charge of the collection of taxes.
The operation against al-Shabaab was carried out in Towfiq town which is about 15 kilometers from the recently liberated Gal'ad District. Security forces arrested the lead bad boy following a tip-off from hawk-eyed villagers who have been his victim for several years.
According to state media sources, during the operation, al-Shabaab forces of Evil attacked the advancing army, which led Agadub to attempt to escape. However, we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by... after running approximately 3 kilometers, he suffered a heart attack and died of a bullet that hit him. In the end, it's always heart failure
Four other senior al-Shabaab members are currently held by security forces and are awaiting military trial in Mogadishu, state media noted. The four are said to have been conducting attacks in central and southern parts of Somalia, killing thousands of innocent civilians and members of security forces.
The killing of Mahad Agadub marks a significant milestone in the government's ongoing efforts to combat al-Shabaab and restore regional security. His death also comes a week after the national army killed at least 44 al-Shabaab forces of Evil within the controversial Lower Shabelle region which has been unstable for a while.
Somalia has activated campaigns to spot and destroy al-Shabaab tax collection centers, a move aimed at grounding the group financially to frustrate her operations in the country. The United States Army estimates that the group makes up to $120 million annually through extortion.
[Garowe] Security forces intercepted the second cache of al-Shabaab ...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa... weapons in as many days within the capital Mogadishu, in yet another significant milestone in the fight against the group which controls large swathes of rural central and southern Somalia.
The cache of weapons was being sneaked into the country through Mogadishu port. The port is viewed as one of the most secure areas within the country.
Mohammed Ali Haga, the state minister of internal security, said 10 suspects including business owners who have government permits to import goods. The suspects are being held for interrogation by security forces, added the minister, who also lauded security forces for vigilance.
"Somali Security forces are resolute in their commitment to combat al-Shabaab, and today's seizure comprised a variety of explosives, drones, communication devices, improvised bombs [IEDs], and other materials," declared State Minister of Internal Security, Mohammed Ali Haga.
The minister maintained that government forces have made important strides in the elimination of al-Shabaab, noting that prevention of the weapons from making it into the group's territory will help in thwarting future attacks waged by the snuffies in several parts of Somalia.
Last week, security forces drawn from the National Intelligence Security Agency [NISA] intercepted a cache of weapons and military supplies believed to be destined for al-Shabaab strongholds. The group has been sneaking weapons into the country unnoticed with senior port officials said to be collaborating with al-Shabaab.
These successful operations demonstrate the continued determination of Somali security forces to disrupt the activities of al-Shabaab and safeguard the well-being of the nation's citizens, the minister added while emphasizing that al-Shabaab financiers are on target.
The United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... believes that al-Shabaab budgets $24 million annually for the purchase of weapons with Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... being used as an entry route. The group makes up to $120 million annually through extortion and ransoms of these kidnapped, making it one of the most financially equipped terror groups in the continent.
At least 18 civilians were killed in clashes between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in the South Darfur region of western Sudan on Sunday, according to local medics. pic.twitter.com/pRX92eVABI
— Al-Estiklal English (@alestiklalen) May 21, 2023
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Note: “Since the coup [that ousted President Bashir], we have been calling for the UN to establish a new mandate to monitor events in Darfur, but they didn’t,” said Mohamad Osman, Sudan researcher for Human Rights Watch (HRW). The reporting from Darfur at present is quite opaque. However, since the conflict includes Nyala, capital of South Darfur, it appears that murderous tribalism has returned to a huge region that should be cleft from the ludicrous "Republic" of the Sudan itself.
[IsraelTimes] The most recent truce, the first to be supported by a joint US-Saudi effort, is set to take effect on Monday evening, violence erupted like lava from a volcano in Khartoum within hours of its signing.
Air raids, gunfire, and explosions rocked Sudan’s capital on Sunday, hours after rival generals agreed to a one-week ceasefire, the latest in a series of truces that have been systematically violated.
The truce is set to take effect at 9:45 p.m. (1945 GMT) on Monday, the United States and Soddy Arabia
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[GreaterKashmir ...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there.... ] The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Sunday arrested a Jasih-e-Mohammad (JeM) operative for his involvement in the terror conspiracy case in Jammu and Kashmir.
Quoting a statement, news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO) reported that the arrest comes as part of the crackdown by NIA against the conspiracies being hatched by proscribed terrorist organizations based across the border to destabilize India through terrorist attacks in J&K.
The statement said that the accused, identified as Mohd Ubaid Malik of Kupwara district, was in constant touch with a Pakistain based JeM Commander, according to NIA investigations in the case.
"Investigations have revealed that the accused was passing on secret information, especially regarding movement of troops and security forces, to the Pak based Commander," it said.
It read that the NIA also recovered from the accused’s possession various incriminating documents showing his involvement in the furtherance of terror activities in J&K.
It added that the case (RC -05/2022/NIA/JMU) was registered by the NIA suo-moto on 21st June 2022.
"It is related to the conspiracies hatched by cadres and Over Ground Workers (OGWs) of various proscribed terrorist organizations in cohorts with their Commanders based in Pakistain. It involves collection and distribution of huge consignments of narcotics, cash, weapons, Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), including remote control operated sticky bombs / magnetic bombs."
The statement reads that the IEDs and explosives are often being delivered over drones and are also being assembled locally, in order to execute terrorist attacks in J&K, as per the NIA investigations.
"The attacks are mainly targeted at the minorities and security forces personnel. The conspiracies are being hatched both physically and in cyberspace over encrypted social media applications, with the overarching aim of disturbing peace and communal harmony, engaging in terrorist acts, and waging a war against the Government of India. Further investigations in the case are continuing," it read
[Dawn] Two soldiers embraced martyrdom and three bad boyz were potted during an intelligence-based operation in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Tank district, the army’s media wing said in the wee hours of Sunday.
According to a blurb issued by Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the killed faceless myrmidons remained actively involved in "numerous terrorist activities against security forces as well as innocent citizens".
The statement said the martyred soldiers, identified as 39-year-old Naik Muhammad Atiq from the Chakwal district and 36-year-old Naik Rajab Ali hailing from Attock, fought gallantly.
"Sanitisation of the area is being carried out to eliminate any faceless myrmidons found in the area," the ISPR said.
"Security forces of Pakistain are determined to eliminate the menace of terrorism and such sacrifices of our brave soldiers further strengthen our resolve," it added.
A day earlier, a terrorist was killed and three soldiers were martyred when security forces retaliated to an attack on one of their posts in the Zarghoon area of Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Pakistain has seen an uptick in terror activities, especially in KP and Balochistan, after the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) ended its ceasefire with the government in November.
In his maiden press briefing last month, ISPR Director General Maj Gen Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said that at least 293 people were martyred and 521 were maimed in 436 terrorist incidents over the past year.
In KP, 192 people were martyred in 219 terror activities, while 80 people lost lives in 206 incidents in Balochistan, 14 people in five attacks in Punjab, and seven in six terrorism incidents across Sindh.
He had said that the army and law enforcement agencies carried out 8,269 intelligence-based operations during the previous year in which 1,378 suspected faceless myrmidons were apprehended and 157 were killed.
The DG ISPR had also said that overall 137 security personnel were martyred and 117 injured in anti-terror operations in the ongoing year.
[Shafaq News] Ottoman Turkish military aircraft launched attacks on Sunday on the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) positions in northern Duhok, marking the fourth consecutive day of bombings.
A security source told Shafaq News Agency that the strikes were concentrated in the Nihel region and the Dirluk district in Amedi, in addition to the villages of Kohrze and Blafa, although the extent of the damage was not immediately clear.
[IsraelTimes] Military says forces hunting for assailant who is thought to have fled toward Nablus, after troops open fire at vehicle; serviceman taken to hospital in Petah Tikva.
An Israeli soldier was moderately maimed in a car-ramming attack in the northern West Bank town of Huwara on Sunday evening, the military and medics said.
The Israel Defense Forces said the soldier was conducting "routine activity" in the Huwara area when a vehicle accelerated toward him and rammed into him.
Another soldier shot up the vehicle which fled the area, apparently toward the city of Nablus, just north of Huwara.
The soldier was taken to Beilinson Hospital in the central Israeli city of Petah Tikvah, where he was listed in moderate condition. The IDF said that the soldier’s family has been notified of his injury.
The IDF said that troops launched a manhunt for the assailant.
Huwara has long been a flashpoint in the West Bank, as it is just about the only Paleostinian town that Israelis regularly travel through in order to reach settlements. There are plans to build a bypass road for settlers to avoid having to travel through the town, but the construction work has been stalled.
There have been several shooting attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers in the town in recent months, including the killing of two brothers in February. Earlier this month, a Paleostinian woman stabbed a soldier in Huwara, before being rubbed out.
Tensions between Israel and the Paleostinians have been high for the past year, with the Israeli military conducting near-nightly raids in the West Bank, in the wake of a series of deadly Paleostinian terror attacks.
Since the beginning of the year, Paleostinian attacks in Israel and the West Bank have killed 19 people and left several more seriously hurt. At least 108 West Bank Paleostinians have been killed during that span, most of them while carrying out attacks or during festivities with security forces, but some were uninvolved civilians and others were killed under circumstances that are being investigated.
— NORTH PRESS AGENCY - ENGLISH (@NPA_English) May 21, 2023
How curious! One wonders specifically which ones they are.
The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire... has recently established a new settlement in the Yazidi village of Shadere in Sherawa district in Afrin’s southern countryside, northwest Syria, according to a media outlet.
The settlement, that was opened on May 8, is named Umm Tuba after the Paleostinian Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem part of Sur Baher, the neighborhood of the funders, and includes 60 apartments the sources added.
In March, the so-called Basma settlement was established by Living with Dignity Association’ (Jamia’at al-Aish Bikarama) in Shadere. The settlement was co-funded with Kuwaiti and Ottoman Turkish state-sponsored groups, as well as Moslem Brüderbund-linked associations from the US and Britannia. What remains of the original Yazidi population has been forced to attend Islamic education by local factions, under threat of force.
The number of families who live in the abovementioned settlements has reached about 281 ones, including 1,700 people, according to the sources.
The two settlements were established by White Hands Association, affiliated with Turkey, and Living with Dignity Association of the Arab citizens of Israel (48-Palestien).
Turkey has built more than 19 settlements in Afrin region through using organizations like Living with Dignity Association, White Hands (Beyaz Eller), Rahma International Society, and other organizations which are funded by Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... and Kuwait.
While the number of settlements built by Turkey with the support of Gulf countries, most notably Kuwait and Qatar, and Paleostinian associations, has exceeded more than 100 in Ottoman Turkish-occupied areas in northern Syria, according to North Press’ own investigations.
The formerly Kurdish-majority region of Afrin has been under Ottoman Turkish occupation since 2018 following a military operation dubbed "Olive Branch" to push away the Kurdish People’s/Women’s Protection Units (YPG/YPJ) under the pretext of protecting the Ottoman Turkish national security.
The invasion displaced around 300,000 indigenous Kurds. Turkey and its affiliated opposition factions of the Syrian National Army (SNA), replaced the population with Arabs fleeing other parts of Syria. Kurds in Afrin are subject to systemic discrimination and violence.
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When the Baath Party seized power in 1963, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan) days were numbered. The Baath then included in their ranks Hafez Al-Assad. He was a minority Alawite, a sect the Ikhwan considered un-Islamic.
As Minister of Defense Assad launched a coup in 1970; after that, the Baath Party remained in power but under Assad's thumb. He put his brother Rifaat al-Asad, in his cabinet.
When Assad backed the Maronite Christians in the Lebanese civil war that began in July 1976, the Brotherhood declared a jihad against the Alawite leader. By 1979 the Syrian Ikhwan had at least 30,000 members. Assad then tried to get along with Brothers but the effort failed. In Jan 1980 the Ikhwan was charged with assassination attempt on Assad. Assad forced the Syrian parliamnent to declare membership in the Ikhwan a capital offense.
Rifaat in February 1982 used tanks to carry-out the destruction of Hama, an Ikhwan stronghold. Some 1,300 Ikhwan were imprisoned and in all as many as 30,000 were killed in the assault and in subsequent attacks. Brothers who could escape did, and the Syrian Ikhwan dispersed throughout the Middle East and into Europe.
They have yet to return in numbers. That Turkey is playing with fire is obvious, but it now serves as the home for the Intl. Ikhwan al-Muslimeen and the attempt to recreate the Ikhwan in Syria now seems underway.
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So, the Assad clan was an enemy of the Muzzist Bruderbund, but still not my friend.
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“Arab Nation” Socialists — the Ba’ath Party was modelled on the Nazis before they lost their war. Saddam Hussein’s branch of the Ba’athists ditto. In many ways so was the Ikhwan — except for the atheism, of course. Both attempted to answer the failures of the traditional caliphates/sultates, particularly in Egypt, Iraq, Turkey
[NPASYRIA] Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Sunday that they had arrested eight Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) snuffies in four security operations in Hasakah, Deir ez-Zor, and Manbij.
The SDF media center said, in a statement, that Commandos Forces of the SDF, arrested two ISIS snuffies in the village of Balqis in Tel Hamis, east of Hasakah, northeast Syria.
The two snuffies was involved in providing logistic support and intelligence information for ISIS sleeper cells, according to the SDF.
Special forces of the SDF launched a security operation with the support of US-led Global Coalition to defeat ISIS against another ISIS sleeper cell in the town of Tayana, east of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria, arresting an active krazed killer who used to provide ISIS with financial support in Deir ez-Zor, according to the source.
In addition, the SDF conducted two security operations in the countryside of Hasakah and Manbij, targeting an ISIS sleeper cell that was trying to explode an IED in SDF’s posts.
The first operation resulted in arresting three ISIS snuffies including a woman, according to the media center.
While the second operation resulted in arresting two ISIS snuffies in the village of Twimin, in the town of Shadadi, in the countryside of Hasakah.
The SDF confiscated weapons, ammunition, papers, and bombs held by the krazed killers.
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[IsraelTimes] Intelligence minister says group apprehended recently while crossing western border with Iraq
There are always warehouses to empty and generals to execute, I suppose, though it seems more likely those crossing from Iraq would be Kurds doing it for ethnic patriotism rather than stooges for Israel.
;s Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib said Sunday that the country’s forces had recently captured a "terrorist" group he claimed was linked to Israel, local media reported.
Khatib said the team was captured entering across the western border with Iraq. He said the new government in Iraq has promised to tighten border security.
"Any action on the borders will be met with a decisive and crushing response" from security forces, he told a conference of prosecutors.
He also warned the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government that it too is responsible for preventing insecurity against Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... in the border area, the Tasnim news agency reported.
Ah ha!
Iran makes claims of busting Israeli spy rings from time to time, but the veracity of such claims is unclear.
The regime has been violent mostly peacefully squelching protests that erupted throughout the country after the September 2022 death of Mahsa Amini, 22, in the custody of morality police after she allegedly violated the country’s dress code. Hundreds of people have been killed, including members of the security forces, and over 10,000 have been arrested. Several protesters have been executed.
Tehran has accused the United States and Israel of planning what it refers to as "riots." In October, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...the very aged actual dictator of Iran, successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini... condemned the protests as a foreign plot to destabilize the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
In January, Iran claimed to have apprehended two cells linked to Israel’s Mossad spy agency that it alleged were operating in the country to exploit protests.
Tehran and Jerusalem have long accused each other of espionage activities and plots to sabotage critical infrastructure, part of a lengthy shadow war between the arch-foes.
Israel views Iran as its greatest threat and has repeatedly threatened to take military action to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons. Iran denies seeking such weapons and has vowed a harsh response to any Israeli aggression.
In January 2022, Israel said it had broken up an Iranian spy ring that recruited Israeli women via social media to photograph sensitive sites, gather intelligence and encourage their sons to join Israeli military intelligence.
In early December last year, Iran executed four people accused of working for the Mossad, while three others received lengthy prison sentences.
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