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India-Pakistan

LeT commander who had key role in Rajouri attack killed inside PoK mosque

2023-09-11

[MSN - Times of India] In yet another mysterious killing of a terrorist wanted in India for a terror attack, unidentified button men bumped off a high-ranking commander of LeT inside al-Qudus mosque in Pakistain-Occupied Kashmir
...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....
's (POK) Rawalkot on Friday.

The terrorist, identified as Riyaz Ahmad alias Abu Qasim Kashmiri, was shot from point-blank range during the Friday prayers. He was one of the main conspirators behind the Rajouri terror attack in J&K in January this year. At least seven people had died while a dozen were maimed when snuffies firing indiscriminately at Dhangri village in Rajouri district. They also left behind an improvised bomb (IED) that went off the next morning.

Sources said the role of home-grown Lions of Islam of Pakistain is suspected in the murder, which is the third such killing in four months. All three were confidantes of designated global terrorist Hafiz Saeed

...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat. He is periodically placed under house arrest so it looks like the govt is doing something. Once the heat is off they let him go....
Lashkar commander Khalid Saifullah was bumped off on August 11 while another LeT commander Salaam Bhuttavi, who was one of the trainers of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, mysteriously suffered a cardiac arrest in a Pakistain jail. Around ten such killings, many of them in Pakistain, have been reported in the last one year.

Friday’s killing has come as a major blow to IS’s Kashmir centric plans as Qasim Kashmiri had established himself as a notorious "launching commander" with a focus on recruitments in Rajouri and Poonch areas in the Valley. Pakistain media outlets termed Abu Qasim’s death as a "assassination of an Islamist Guerrilla fighter". As per the police’s briefing to the local media, Qasim was shot four times by assailants wearing helmets. Qasim originally belonged to the Surankot area of J&K and had exfiltrated across the border in 1999. "He was considered as the brain behind the revival of terrorism in the twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri," an intelligence official said.

Since the abrogation of Article 370 in J&K in August 2019, the IS has been facing a major challenge in terms of terrorist recruitment. Abu Qasim, however, had kept the launchpads alive and kept getting the local youths on IS’s payroll while brainwashing them about jihad. In the last three years, terror camps were mainly running from 3-4 areas of POK, including Manshera and Muzaffarabad, under the guidance of Qasim and his associates.

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Britain

Dirty bomb fears as 'several kg of URANIUM' found in cargo at Heathrow: Package 'shipped from Pakistan to UK-based Iranians' at centre of Met Police anti-terror probe after being discovered when airport alarms triggered

2023-01-11

[Daily Mail]

Shipment of uranium has been seized at Heathrow airport, sparking terror fears

The undeclared material was discovered on December 29 on a passenger flight

It was destined for an Iranian business with a premises in the UK, sources say

The package originated from Pakistan and arrived on a flight via Oman

Sources said the uranium was ‘not weapons-grade’ - and so could not be used to manufacture a thermo-nuclear weapon.

But the security services are understood to be investigating whether the undeclared package could have been destined for an improvised nuclear device, known as a ‘dirty bomb’.

Such a device - which has long been a nightmare scenario for counter-terror experts - combines conventional explosives with nuclear material to disperse a lethal radioactive plume.

In 2004 British security services arrested Dhiren Barot, a Muslim convert who planned to assemble and use dirty bombs in the UK and the US to kill members of the public.

Mr. Barot aka Issa al-Hindi headed a Lashkar e-Taiba jihadi cell in the UK that planned a series of attacks against major targets in Britain and the Greater NYC area. His manual for jihad was published in a large enough run that copies could still be found in bookshops six years later.

He was jailed for 30 years.

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India-Pakistan

Indian forces martyr three Kashmiris in Pulwama

2021-07-18

Pakistan’s take on Thursday’s deadly encounter for Lashkar e-Taiba big turban Abu Huraira AKA Aijaz from Pakistan and his two local henchmen. It turned out that one of the henchmen was related to Mahmoud the Weasel; MtW’s youngest daughter is in dire need of braces, so he made the fateful phone call.

[NATION.PK] In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir

...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....
, Indian troops in their fresh act of state terrorism
... any action taken by a non-Moslem state that constrains the violent impulses of Moslems or their allies ...
martyred three more Kashmiri youth in Pulwama town.The youth were killed by the troops during a cordon and search operation in New Colony area of the town.

Authorities imposed strict curfew in Pulwama town in New Colony area of the district. Officials while confirming the imposition of curfew said that entire Pulwama town is under curfew "as a precautionary measure" to avert any untoward incident. People were informed through loudspeakers to stay indoors and not try to venture out amid curfew.

The authorities also suspended internet services in Pulwama and other areas of the South Kashmir.

Kashmir Police chief in a tweet claimed three murderous Moslems were killed in an operation. The operation was going on till last reports came in.

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India-Pakistan

Remembering Mumbai 7/11: The role played by the deadly 12 backed by Pakistan

2021-07-11

[OneIndia] It is 15 years since the bloody 7/11 Mumbai train bombings. On this day 15 years back the backbone of Mumbai, its trains were attacked in a brutal fashion in which 209 were killed while over 700 injured.

This was an effort by the vicious idiots of ISI- and Al Qaeda-linked Lashkar e-Taiba, may they all suffer forever in the depths of Hell.

In around 10 minutes on July 11 2006, seven blasts took place on the Western; one of the Suburban Railway in Mumbai. The trial in case dragged on for nearly 10 years and in 2015, a Special MCOCA court which had convicted 12 accused delivered the verdict on the quantum of sentence. 5 persons were awarded death penalty

, while 7 others were given a lifer.

Let us take a look at the role that these convicts played:

Kamal Ansari: Helped Pak ~~bandidos~~ ~~bandidos~~ murderous Moslems Aslam and Hafizullah cross into India through Indo-Nepal border.

Faisal Sheikh: Worked for Azam Cheema, the criminal mastermind. He trained in Pakistain and even sent his brother Muzzamil and Tanvir to train.

Ehteshaam Siddiqui: Harboured Pak ~~bandidos~~ ~~bandidos~~ murderous Moslems Ammu Jan, Sabir, Abu Bakr, Kasam Ali and Abu Hasan at Mumbra.

Naveed Hussain: Planted the bomb which went kaboom! at Bandra station.

Asif Khan alias Junaid: Key conspirator Junaid housed Pak ~~bandidos~~ ~~bandidos~~ murderous Moslems at his Mira Road residence. Procured rexine bags, utensils, ammonium nitrate, detonators and also assembled bombs. Planted bomb at Borivali station.

Dr Tanvir Ansari: Helped in assembling bombs.

Majid Mohammed Shafi: Helped Pak ~~bandidos~~ ~~bandidos~~ murderous Moslems Sabir, Abu Bakr, Kasam Ali, Abu Hasan cross into India through Indo-Bangladesh border.

Sheikh Alam: Surveyed local trains to plan the blasts and planted the at Mira Road station.

Mohammad Sajid Ansari: Procured timer electric circuitry and other devices for 7/11. -Housed Pak ~~bandidos~~ ~~bandidos~~ murderous Moslems Aslam and Haifzulla

Muzammil Sheikh: Surveyed local trains to plan the blasts.

Ansari, Sohail Sheikh: Received hawala money from absconding accused, Rizwan Dhaware for the exeucution of the blasts.

Zameer Sheikh: Surveyed local trains and helped assemble the bombs

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India-Pakistan

Attack avenged: 3 Lashkar terrorists including top commander gunned down by forces

2021-06-21

[OneIndia] Three turbans including a top commander of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba were bumped off in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir

...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....
's Sopore. The shootout which began on Sunday night resulted from a joint operation conducted by the Army, CRPF and J&K police.

Mudasir Pandit, a top Lashkar-e-Tayiba turbans who was involved in the killing of three police personnel, two councillors and two civilians was killed in the encounter. IN all three bad boyz were potted, Inspector General of Police, Vijay Kumar told ANI.

The security forces, launched several operations following a terror attack in North Kashmir on June 12.

The attack took place when a police party led by sub-inspector, Mukesh Kumar was stationed at the main town for enforcing COVID-19 appropriate behaviour. Director General of Police, Dilbag Singh said that two of the four coppers, Waseem and Showkat were martyred in the attack.

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India-Pakistan

Arrested teacher who recruited Bengal girl into Lashkar planned violent jihad in India

2021-04-16

[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has arrested a recruiter belonging to the Lashkar-e-Tayiba.

The case relates to the arrest of one Tania Mondal by the West Bengal police for her association with the Lashkar-e-Tayiba. The arrested person, Altaf Ahmed Rather, a school teacher from Bandipora was a sympathiser of the outfit.

He was also in regular touch with Tania through the social media. He was instrumental in introducing Tania to the members of the outfit based in Pakistain.

The NIA said that the motive was to radicalise, recruit and motivate the youth to undertake ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful jihad in India.

Tania Mondal a.k.a Tania Parveen was part of 70 Jihadi groups on the social media. Tania, a resident of District North 24 Parganas, West Bengal had converted to Islam after being radicalised. She was arrested by the West Bengal police, following which the NIA took over the investigation.

She was a college student and got radicalised in the cyberspace by Pakistain based cadres of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba.

Tania, gradually became part of about 70 jihadi groups on social media, which propagated terrorist ideology advocating skewed version of Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
with an aim to further radicalise and recruit impressionable Moslem youth, the NIA said in its chargesheet.

The accused was also active in various Paleostinian and Syrian Jihadi social media groups. Investigation further revealed that the LeT cadres based in Lahore, Pakistain had introduced the accused to the officials of Pak Intelligence Agency, ISI, who tasked her to open fake Facebook profile and befriend Armed Force members in India to obtain sensitive strategic information.

NIA officials said that she was using a WhatsApp number of Pakistain. She was also part of several groups and had many accounts on social media sites.

The police said that she was trying to honey trap Indian soldiers in lieu of information about the Indian Army. The investigation conducted by the police managed to establish her direct connection with the Lashkar-e-Tayiba. She was using the dark web to interact with the soldiers.

She is a first year student of masters' degree and she was arrested on March 17 from her house at the Malayapur village, which is on the Bangladesh border.

The police found that she was in the process of befriending Indian soldiers. She was trying to honey trap them. However,
there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened...
she had not succeeded.

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Africa Horn

Several ISIS militants killed in Puntland after clash with security forces

2021-04-05

[Garowe] Security forces drawn from Puntland
...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion...
on Saturday killed several IS-Somalia gunnies in the northern state, where the group has been trying to create a base, but with their attempts flopping due to vigilance exhibited by the Puntland Security Forces.

The security forces, officials said, clashed with the gunnies at the mountainous region of Balidhidin district within Bari, a region which is often under the threat from the IS-Somalia krazed killers, whose number cannot be told given the secrecy they operate in.

According to officials, Puntland Security Forces [PSF] raided group hideout after a tip-off about a planned attack. Troops sent as reinforcements came under IED on their way to the area but they managed to successfully thwart attempts by the gunnies to raid certain areas in the region.

The fighting, reports indicate, took place at Cal-Miskaad. Heavy weaponry was used but no casualties were reported, as the forces tried to stamp authority in the region, which is prone to attacks from both IS gunnies and the al-Shabaab

...... al-Qaeda's tentacle in East Africa...
group, which subscribes to al-Qaeda ideologies.

Puntland is one of the regions which is least attacked by both al-Shabaab and IS-Somalia gunnies due to robust security measures put in place by the regional leadership. There are no activities from the Somali National Army in the region.

Annually, regional security forces graduate before deployment to the mainstream forces, a move which has blessings from Puntland president Said Abdullahi Deni, the sixth president of the region which was formed in 1998.

IS-Somalia gunnies are often sighted at Goli mountains in Puntland and their activities are limited to Bosaso, the commercial capital of Puntland. The group often festivities with al-Shabaab, thus making the fight against the Islamist gunnies easier.

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India-Pakistan

2 ISIS sympathisers part of Quran Circle charged by NIA

2021-04-04

[OneIndia] The National Investigation Agency has filed a chargesheet against two ISIS sympathisers from Karnataka.

Back in the old days we called it Mysore, for those who remember such things. The capitol is still Bangalore, if that’s any comfort, though sometimes they call it Bengaluru.

The two persons are Ahamed Abdul Cader and Irfan Nasir. Both the accused persons were part of a terrorist group which identified impressionable Moslem youth and further motivated, radicalised them and also provided funds for their visit to Syria to further the ideology and activities of banned terrorist organization ISIS.

The case was registered by the NIA in September last year after the examination of Dr Abdur Rahman in an 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....
Khorasan province case, who was motivated and sent to Syria to join the ISIS in 2013-14 by the terrorist group formed by the accused in the case, according to the NIA official.

The NIA had busted the ISIS module wherein, the names of various persons responsible for radicalising and funding the visits of Moslem youth from Bengaluru/Karnataka to ISIS-controlled areas emerged, the official said.

Cader, Nasir and some of their associates, who are members of the Hizb-ut-Tahrir, an international Islamist and fundamentalist organization, had formed a group namely 'Koran Circle' to further their ISIS-related activities, the NIA official said.

Based on the forensic examination of digital devices seized during the search and meticulous analysis of funds raised and provided by the members of Koran Circle, roles of various accused/suspects located abroad and in India, emerged which are under investigation in the case, the official said.

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India-Pakistan

Anti-India clashes erupt after troops kill 3 Kashmir rebels

2021-04-04

[AlAhram] The shootout erupted shortly after scores of counterinsurgency police and soldiers launched an operation based on a tip about the presence of murderous Moslems in Kakpora village in southern Pulwama district.

Anti-India festivities erupted between government forces and residents of a village in disputed Kashmir
Kashmir

...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....
on Friday following a gunbattle in which troops killed three suspected bad boys, police and residents said.

The shootout erupted shortly after scores of counterinsurgency police and soldiers launched an operation based on a tip about the presence of murderous Moslems in Kakpora village in southern Pulwama district, Inspector General Vijay Kumar said.

Kumar said two of the three slain murderous Moslems had been involved in fatally shooting a policeman guarding the home of a local politician from India's ruling party in the region's main city on Thursday. He said troops recovered two rifles and a pistol from the site of Friday's clash, and that one of the recovered weapons had been taken by the murderous Moslems from the slain policeman.

Residents said troops used explosives to blast a civilian house during the fighting, a common anti-militancy tactic employed by Indian troops in Kashmir.

As the fighting raged, hundreds of people marched nearby in solidarity with the rebels while chanting slogans seeking the end of Indian rule over the region.

That’s one way to show faith in Allan, I s’pose — wandering near a battle is considered vaguely suicidal in non-inshallah societies.

Government forces fired shotgun pellets and tear gas at the stone-throwing protesters.

At least four civilians were maimed in the festivities, including a woman with a bullet injury in her leg.

Natural consequences of stupidity. They’re lucky they didn’t all lose an eye.

Kumar said the woman was injured in the crossfire between Indian troops and bad boys.

The Himalayan region of Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistain and is claimed by both in its entirety. Many Moslem Kashmiris support the rebel goal of uniting the territory, either under Pak rule or as an independent country.

Possibly fewer than previously, but given that returning native Kashmiris and outsiders are moving in, the rebel-supporting Muslims are being diluted.

Indian officials describe the Kashmir militancy as Pakistain-sponsored terrorism. Pakistain denies the charge, and most Kashmiris consider it a legitimate freedom struggle.

...legitimately supported by Pakistan.

Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels and government forces have been killed in the conflict.

In a surprising decision last month, India and Pakistain agreed to reaffirm their 2003 cease-fire accord that has silenced guns along the de facto frontier dividing Kashmir. However,
today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday...
a crackdown by Indian forces and attacks by rebels have continued inside the Indian-held portion of Kashmir.

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India-Pakistan

2016 Conspiracy to attack Delhi: 3 Pakistani Lashkar operatives sentenced to 10 years in jail

2021-04-02

[OneIndia] Three Pak Death Eaters of the Lashkar-e-Tayiba have been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment in connection with a conspiracy case.

The case was registered by the National Investigation Agency and pertained too a larger conspiracy hatched by the Lashkar-e-Tayiba to commit acts of terror in India.

As a part of this conspiracy, accused Bahadur Ali along with his two associates Abu Saad and Abu Darda, all trained Death Eaters of LeT had illegally infiltrated into J&K with the intention to carry out terrorist attacks at different places in India including Delhi.

Bahadur Ali was arrested at Kupwara in 2016 and a large number of arms-AK-47 Rifle, UBGL, ammunition, hand Grenades, UBGL Shells, Military Map, Wireless Set, GPS, Compass, Indian Currency, Fake Indian Currency Notes were recovered from him.

During investigation Bahadur Ali had revealed about the recruitment of Lashkar operatives, training being imparted in handling of weapons, arms, night vision devices, grid references etc.

Later, two Pak Death Eaters of LeT who were associates of Bahadur Ali, Abu Saad and Abu Darda were killed in an encounter in 2017.

During investigation two associates of Bahadur Ali, Zahoor Ahmad Peer and Nazir Ahmad Peer both residents of Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir

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India-Pakistan

Indian security forces launched cordon and search operation in Gund Kaisar village of Bandipora

2020-04-30

[TWITTER]

NEW:

Indian security forces launched cordon and search operation in Gund Kaisar village of Bandipora. Door to door search on. #JammuKashmir
— FJ (@Natsecjeff) April 29, 2020

Bandipora district looks like Lashkar e-Taiba country...

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India-Pakistan

Masood Azhar's son, brother detained in govt crackdown against banned organisations

2019-03-06

Or it might be thought of as protective custody, to be maintained until the Indians and that dreadful American president Trump are distracted and turn their attention elsewhere.

[DAWN] Forty-four under-observation members of proscribed organizations, including Mufti Abdul Raoof and Hamad Azhar (no relation to the Minister of State for Revenue) ‐ the brother and son of Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
(JeM) leader Masood Azhar, respectively ‐ have been taken in "preventive detention" for investigation, said officials of the Ministry of Interior on Tuesday.

"In order to implement National Action Plan (NAP), a high-level meeting was held in the Ministry of Interior on March 4, attended by all representatives of all provincial governments," said a statement by the ministry. "These actions will continue, as per the decisions taken in National Security Committee (NSC) while reviewing NAP."

This was also confirmed by Minister of State for Interior Shehryar Afridi and Ministry of Interior Secretary Azam SLearned Elders of Islamn Khan at a presser on Tuesday.

"This is across the board ‐ we don't want to give the impression that we are against one organization," said Khan while talking to the media.

He acknowledged that some people who have been detained ‐ including Raoof and Azhar ‐ are named in the dossier handed by India to Pakistain on the Pulwama attack. "It does not mean that action is being taken against only those individuals who are mentioned in the dossier."

The interior ministry secretary further said: "If we have to take over any [organization's] assets, we will do so. Assets can be taken over of organizations already declared as proscribed, under the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.

"If we obtain any further evidence or if we have to investigate any organization, the government can take any organization['s leaders] into custody at any time."

The secretary was also questioned by a news hound regarding the status of Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
(JuD), which the news hound said is still "on a watch list" according to Indian media and not yet proscribed.

Furthermore, the news hound inquired as to why a notification was issued by the information ministry and not the interior ministry when the government's decision to reinstate the ban on the organization was announced on February 21.

The secretary chalked the delay down to paperwork and confirmed that the ban will take effect within 24 hours and a notification will be issued, this time by the interior ministry.

A few short hours following the presser, the interior ministry released an updated list of 70 organizations declared proscribed by the ministry under Schedule 1 of ATA, 1997.

The schedule shows the addition of JuD and Falah-e-Insaniyat
...the current false nose and mustache of Jamaat ud-Dawa, which was the false nose and mustache of Lashkar e-Taiba...
Foundation (FIF) on March 5, 2019, whereas Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) appears on number 3, having been added to the list on Jan 14, 2002.

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