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US "Loses" $500 Million In Weapons Given To Yemen, Now In Al-Qaeda Hands

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Nobody could have possibly foreseen that yet another US foreign diplomacy "success story" would turn out to be an epic disaster. Well, nobody, except for those who accurately predict that every US intervention abroad is now a staggering fiasco (for everyone involved except the US military-industrial complex of course). As for Yemen, the outcome was clear long ago:

And, naturally, after noting that "the employees said that more than 20 vehicles were taken by the fighters after the Americans departed from Sanaa's airport" we asked how long until we have a "tabulation of losses to US taxpayers, just like the great Islamic State 'robbery' of hundreds of millions in US military equipment in Iraq?" That, of course, was another epic US intervention success story.

Anyway, thanks to WaPo we have an answer: according to Jeff Bezos' recent media acquisition, "the Pentagon is unable to account for more than $500 million in U.S. military aid given to Yemen."

Obviously, "can't account for" means "has lost." But while the US does not know where nearly half a billion in weapons can be found, it is more than informed who is the current owner: there are "fears that the weaponry, aircraft and equipment is at risk of being seized by Iranian-backed rebels or al-Qaeda, according to U.S. officials."

And just like that, America's now laughable, pathetic foreign policy has not only resulted in another US-supported administration to be exiled or worse, but is has directly armed the adversary. And to think it was only 6 months ago when the Teleprompter in Chief was praising the "Yemen success story." From Obama's Statement on ISIL as of September 10, 2014:

Now, it will take time to eradicate a cancer like ISIL.  And any time we take military action, there are risks involved –- especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions.  But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.  It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil.  This counterterrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out ISIL wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground.  This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years.  And it is consistent with the approach I outlined earlier this year:  to use force against anyone who threatens America’s core interests, but to mobilize partners wherever possible to address broader challenges to international order.

Some may find it odd then, that 6 months later this "strategy" has been flipped on its head, and the Obama administration is taking out its partners (in Yemen), while supporting the terrorists who threaten us.

But almost everyone will say this was obvious from day one.

Here is what else was obvious:

With Yemen in turmoil and its government splintering, the Defense Department has lost its ability to monitor the whereabouts of small arms, ammunition, night-vision goggles, patrol boats, vehicles and other supplies donated by the United States. The situation has grown worse since the United States closed its embassy in Sanaa, the capital, last month and withdrew many of its military advisers.

 

U.S. firearms supplied to the Interior Ministry in Yemen, which has
received
$500 million in aid from the United States since 2007 under an
array of
Defense Department and State Department programs. (GAO)


In recent weeks, members of Congress have held closed-door meetings with U.S. military officials to press for an accounting of the arms and equipment. Pentagon officials have said that they have little information to go on and that there is little they can do at this point to prevent the weapons and gear from falling into the wrong hands.

 

“We have to assume it’s completely compromised and gone,” said a legislative aide on Capitol Hill who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

 

* * *

 

Washington has supplied more than $500 million in military aid to Yemen since 2007 under an array of Defense Department and State Department programs. The Pentagon and CIA have provided additional assistance through classified programs, making it difficult to know exactly how much Yemen has received in total.

Below is a graphic representation of all the equipment that has been "misplaced."

Another day for the US State Department under John Kerry, another day of endless embarrassment.

U.S. military officials declined to comment for the record. A defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the Pentagon, said there was no hard evidence that U.S. arms or equipment had been looted or confiscated. But the official acknowledged that the Pentagon had lost track of the items.

 

“Even in the best-case scenario in an unstable country, we never have 100 percent accountability,” the defense official said.

It gets better:

U.S. government officials say al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen poses a more direct threat to the U.S. homeland than any other terrorist group. To counter it, the Obama administration has relied on a combination of proxy forces and drone strikes launched from bases outside the country.

And now it is relying on an even more radical strategy: arming al-Qaeda directly.

But the absolute punchline is the way the US government justifies this most recent fiasco:

Although the loss of weapons and equipment already delivered to Yemen would be embarrassing, U.S. officials said it would be unlikely to alter the military balance of power there. Yemen is estimated to have the second-highest gun ownership rate in the world, ranking behind only the United States, and its bazaars are well stocked with heavy weaponry. Moreover, the U.S. government restricted its lethal aid to small firearms and ammunition, brushing aside Yemeni requests for fighter jets and tanks.

See, it's no biggie that US taxpayers are half a bill out of pocket: the Yemen branch of Al-Qaeda was already armed to the teeth anyway, peace out.

Up next? US-trained Ukraine troops with ultra-modern equipment mysteriously defect, and end up in the Russian army?

The winner? The US Military Industrial Complex, because as General Sline said in Spies Like Us, "a weapon unused is a useless weapon." And if there is anything the US military-industrial complex is good at, it is exporting war first courtesy of the CIA operating the in the shadows of incompetent figureheads like Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, followed promptly - like in this case - by arms to fight it (while HSBC, JPM and others provide the funding).

 

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Tue, 03/24/2015 - 05:14 | 5920911 Tall Tom
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Thanks for the link. Informative video.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:28 | 5918979 Lea
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Are they going to lose an aircraft carrier someday?

[facepalm]

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 05:24 | 5920921 Tall Tom
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CVNs are just floating targets.

 

They are not built for the tactics on the next war. They are relics that can be blown out of the water by any Attack Nuke Sub (Tactical) with Nuke Warheaded torpedoes.

 

I'd rather have a Boomer (Strategic Nuke Sub) with 16 MIRVed Tridents rather than any CVN. Boomers can takeout entire Nations.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:32 | 5919000 Puncher75
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Hope & Change!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:33 | 5919005 suckerfishzilla
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I can only dig up MSM labels for the Houthi.  I thought that Houthi was the name of their tribe. Houthi is the name of the founder of their ideology.  They are Shia and supposedly fighting back against Salafist agression.  I doubt that they are CIA er al qaeda. It would appear to be a legitmate movement organic to the region. 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:38 | 5919012 Jstanley011
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"...there are 'fears that the weaponry, aircraft and equipment is at risk of being seized by Iranian-backed rebels or al-Qaeda, according to U.S. officials.'"

I'm not sure if this is a bad thing in the long run, seeing as how the Iranian-backed Shia rebels and Suni al-Qaeda are mortal enemies.

Given the inability of Muzzies of any stripe to attack the West in any serious form or fashion, that means they'll use the weapons mostly to kill each other.

It's all good.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:25 | 5919224 Clycntct
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"Given the inability of Muzzies of any stripe to attack the West"

Stand in line at the airport and get your equipment checked.

"It's all good"

You can never be to careful you know.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:38 | 5919019 pitterrier
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We need to deliver the "NOT YET DELIVERED" equipment ASAP!!!!!!!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:40 | 5919024 presidentsarkozy
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Obviously using the same rationale on arms losses as the French use on speed of cash limit implementation.

You gotta laugh to keep from crying .

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:40 | 5919025 silentboom
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The pentagon lost a few billion the day before 911, I wonder what's happening tommorow.

https://youtu.be/aljgYENg--Y

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:42 | 5919036 lakecity55
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"who was that on the phone, Reggie?"
"I don't know, Munchkins, but they said the Delivery was complete."
"Excellent!"

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:43 | 5919038 Pol Pot
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Pure bullshit....it is all part of the great game to take Yemen....line up boyz....amerikan troops landing in Yemen for the holidays...

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:43 | 5919042 q99x2
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I think the NWO gave 50 billion to the DHS they just haven't decided to attack the United States of America yet.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:44 | 5919045 Aussiekiwi
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We Weaponized some folks.......It really does just work with everything!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:44 | 5919046 neuronius
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Golly, it's stories like this that would make it very difficult for one to make federal tax payments. 

"Cool, look what almost half my income is going to!"

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:48 | 5919058 Chippewa Partners
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MIC wins again!!!   

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:49 | 5919068 TeethVillage88s
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"there are "fears that the weaponry, aircraft and equipment is at risk of being seized by Iranian-backed rebels or al-Qaeda, according to U.S. officials."

Yeah, yeah... They said that about Iraq before they tore their whole world apart. We know a NeoCON Statement when we see it. Just like all the whining about not having enough Funding for DOD and we know full well all the Black Budget Programs are funded totally separately.

Total—Department of Defense—Military Outlays 2014 = 580.13 Billion
Total—Department of Defense—Military Outlays 2013 = $609.4 Billion (Down from $650 B)
Total—Department of Defense—Military Outlays 2000 = $283 Billion
Total—Department of Defense—Military Outlays 1998 = $257.9 Billion

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:50 | 5919069 hot sauce technician
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This is just more proof of the complete incompetence of those in power. This didn't happen by design. Why not? Because the weapons could've been directly supplied to the islamists without having had a revolution somehow orchestrated. Fact is, the  ocal cronies were run OUT of town. The ones getting paid in USD. This is just another quasi-comical example of how spreading yourself too thin will come back to bite you in the ass. Shame bureaucrats and politicians aren't held personally accountable for fiascos like this. 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:17 | 5919412 MeelionDollerBogus
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It most certainly is the design and has been for decades.

The Middle-east activity now is replicating the CIA activity in South America when I was a young child.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:51 | 5919074 Sandmann
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Not long ago they showed how much kit they had lost in Afghan. Now that Kozmoisky in Ukraine has taken control by armed force of a gas transmission company in Kiev and called for full federalization of Ukraine and recognition of the Separatists, watch how much the US will lose there. I bet the British will seize the USS Theodore as booty now it off Portsmouth

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:52 | 5919079 homiegot
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If they don't have equipment, how can we fight them?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:53 | 5919089 Wahooo
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No kidding. We certainly can't shoot unarmed terrorists, can we?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:53 | 5919081 Thisisbullishright
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It's not incompetence....

...it's all part of THE PLAN!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:53 | 5919083 rejected
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How many school loans would this cover? Grandma's on SS? Hungry and jobless?

Money to burn,,, Hey, it's free click money, who cares?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:53 | 5919087 basho
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morons, absolute morons.

where has america gone.

Kunstler has got it right.

what a sad end to a promising society.

tic toc

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:54 | 5919094 Wahooo
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Why can't they unaccount half a billion dollars in weapons to US citizens? I have to scrape together money to buy new guns and here they are just giving them away.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:01 | 5919122 lakecity55
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....with select fire on those M4s, too!

dammit!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 15:57 | 5919106 lakecity55
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Gee, we won't be able to tell the US Army from the ISIS Army!

But, hey, what difference does it make??

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:00 | 5919117 Guns N Metals
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Our Leviathan gives Yemen 1.2 MM rounds of ammunition, 200 Glock Pistols and 200 M-4 Rifles, while simultaneously attempting to override the U.S. Constitution and ban M-4 style rifles and ammunition from the citizens of America.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:06 | 5919132 lasvegaspersona
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So this is why they want our guns! Cuz they keep losing theirs!

I know a bazaar in Kabul where you can get nice new US issued M16s....if you have a permit of course.

This is beyond crazy. It is pure sad.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:05 | 5919134 I Write Code
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Must be silver bullets and solid gold guns.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:21 | 5919206 Lostinfortwalton
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The stuff listed tops out at a couple mill, max. Where is the rest of the stuff?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:06 | 5919136 Fukushima Fricassee
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Another Obama give away.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:12 | 5919164 SmittyinLA
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Funny thing is Yemen was a known hostile state before we (Clintons) decided to refuel the USS Cole in their harbor ( fuel supplier donations to Clinto Foundation) pissing off all the local Muslims that hate America. (before 9/11) 

We left after getting blown up on our first visit to that worthless hostile cesspool. 

Less than flat learning curve, more Bush regime 9/11 wreckage dumped on America.

Islam is a hostile ideology, Presidents that import Muslims are traitors and criminals. 

Obama never could have been elected without 8 years of Bush criminal invasion and orgy of looting. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:22 | 5919214 Mister Delicious
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I bet youre the sort of asshole who thinks Muslims, all 1.3 billion, hate us for our freedom.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:39 | 5919282 Monty Burns
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I have no problem at all with Muslims. When they stay in their own countries.  When they do that we should leave them alone.  If we do that I feel sure that they'll leave us alone in return.

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:09 | 5919357 MeelionDollerBogus
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Why should they? Christians didn't stay in their own countries.

 

America is NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:41 | 5919493 The Chief
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Look what the fucking Christians did to the Aztecs?? The friars weighed the gold.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 00:11 | 5920661 Counterpunch
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Yes, and the aztecs were so loving and kind to their neighbors, too, right, bro?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:23 | 5922558 MeelionDollerBogus
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Good thing they got some white democracy delivered post-haste. And the Tradition has lasted ever since.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:20 | 5919632 MeelionDollerBogus
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Let us also be clear: Christians / whites went to Muslim countries first, en masse, repeatedly, not the other way around.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 20:50 | 5919952 gezley
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No they didn't you ignoramus. Christianity was in what is now Libya, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and the rest 600 years before Islam even existed. Get your facts straight or bugger off. This isn't a place for morons.

There's nothing complicated about Anglo-American "policy" in the Middle East: it's all about the ancient Jewish war on Christianity, with militant Islam as the pawn of Jewry and its close friends in Anglo-America. Yes, you'd better believe it: all of these so-called Islamic terrorist groups were started with the blessing of Israel. Hamas, for example, was founded by Israel. The aim is the elimination of Christianity from the Middle East, a plan which is coming along very nicely. The Pharisees have the same aim today they had 2000 years ago.

And when Phase 1 is over they'll move on to Phase 2, which is a final assault on Christianity in Europe. That's why you're seeing boatloads of North African and Middle Eastern Muslims, mainly young males by the way, heading for Spain, Portugal, France and Italy, hundreds of thousands of them planted in Europe and ready to spring into action as soon as Anglo-America pulls the plug on the Euro and collapses the EU economy. France, Italy, Spain and Portugal will pay a heavy price in blood while Israel, the US and the UK will watch from the sidelines, "wringing their hands in despair", as if they never saw it coming.

Right!

Islam isn't the problem. WASP-Judaeo-Masonry is. Nothing new there then.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 00:16 | 5920677 Counterpunch
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Its not masonry. Its the Pharisees and their confederates.

 

The vast bulk of masons oppose them, but they have little power anyway.

 

 

 

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:01 | 5919348 MeelionDollerBogus
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Christian = Muslim = world genocide champions

 

Religion is poison

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 00:22 | 5920688 Counterpunch
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Were the Mongols Christian or Muslim?

 

What about the folks in the Old Testament, you know, with the god that preached hate of non-Hebrews?

 

Your conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

 

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:12 | 5919166 doggis
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WHEN YOU "CREATE" THE MONSTER IN WHICH YOU MUST "FIGHT" - YOU MAKE SURE YOUR "MONSTER" IS WELL EQUIPPED!!!!!

NO MISTAKE. JUST WELL PLANNED!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:15 | 5919180 falak pema
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Its only "planned obsolescence"; its a way of keeping people hooked to the war machine.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:19 | 5919202 dexter_morgan
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Yeah......Lost - that's what happened, that's how it went down.

Just part of the ZWo plan........

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:25 | 5919219 joego1
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Are people who help terrorists not terrorists themselves? Don't we procecute these types of criminals?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:25 | 5919222 justsayin2u
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just make sure us citizens dont get any weapons

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:26 | 5919225 StormDrain
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Golf Of Aden, Red Sea ..............

Why do we give a shit about that place?

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:26 | 5919226 Condition 1SQ
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What a slap in the face.  They're giving away fully automatic weapons to unstable people in an unstable region of the world, but a law-abiding citizen in the US has to sign their rights away for a Class III.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:31 | 5919248 Monty Burns
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Perfectly logical when you understand that they see the American people as their real enemy.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:28 | 5919233 joego1
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Islam is a big club and we ain't in it. The big news is we have no Islamic friends and partners just "folks" waiting to cut our throats when they get the chance. Meanwhile they will glad use all the stuff we give them.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:29 | 5919241 R19
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Selectively arm internationally and universally disarm domestically.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:31 | 5919247 R19
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200 M-4's. Sounds like a neighborhood in LA or a couple blocks in Texas.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:31 | 5919249 cart00ner
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Many aussie ex-pats are going to Yemen to fight for their families against ISIS, our Gov has condemed them saying "They will only add to the misery"

We should be arming these 'volenteers' whom know the people/area to the teeth, (unless they dont want us shooting ISIS for some reason?)

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:36 | 5919270 IndianaJohn
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Aren't those alphabet cannibals the arab division of the US Army?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:36 | 5919273 Duc888
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....can't let 'Muricans have gunz.

oh, and , ummmm, militias are dangerous too...

....and.... ummm, people who think they're "sovereign" (not property us USA corp.) are double plus dangerous....gotta read all dem emails...tap dem phones, hell, double tap them while you're at it.

By all means keep paying those slave taxes and vote, vote, vote, the more times you vote the better things will get.

:)

 

not.

 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:47 | 5919277 juicy_bananas
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FOR SALE: 
US Army rifle -- Never fired, only dropped once.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:41 | 5919294 newsoutlet
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How person change under putine regime http://youtu.be/nS0d_djNb3E BTW I have started a blog, hope putin trolls will like it ;) http://stopputinregime.WordPress.com

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:44 | 5919302 IridiumRebel
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This is about Yemen, fuckface.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:46 | 5919309 Bill of Rights
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Half a billion dollars lost and these fuckers send hate letters from the IRS to individual Americans for peanuts !

Cunts

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:47 | 5919311 blindman
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all these scumbags are the same
scumbag, it is just that no one has
pointed it out to them, yet.
you just did and plausible deniability
has been removed as a defense;
naked treason is rampant with
these killer clowns. failure can not
come too soon.
.
Sitting in the Park - Billy Stewart
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPBrV1vVKWw
.
Doug Sahm, Leon Russell, Jerry Garcia and Friends - Thanksgiving Jam - 11/23/72
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Van_3-Sn-n0&app=desktop
.
a shame thinking people have been abolished
from governance in the ussa political arena.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:57 | 5919339 MeelionDollerBogus
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"Another day for the US State Department under John Kerry, another day of endless embarrassment"

 

Well, straight from the horse's mouth.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:13 | 5919399 dougie
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Not fair to blame one administration.  This is clearly a product of the Bushobama administration.  Together they have created a giant clusterfuck in the ME.  We have to go back to the Reagan admin. disaasters in Central America to find comparable incompetence.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:07 | 5919588 MeelionDollerBogus
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100% true - every president after Kennedy has been a puppet.

Still, I wanted to make the horse joke.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:42 | 5919709 MR166
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"Not fair to blame one administration."  Now that is total BS!!!!!  The ME was and Iraq was looking better and somewhat under control until Obama "Won the war" and withdrew all the troops.  Don't even bother to mention Libya and Egypt.  Soon a nuclear Iran will control Syria also.  All of this was his plan all along.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:21 | 5922553 MeelionDollerBogus
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Most certainly it was not and to believe it was is pure propaganda bullshit.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:20 | 5919428 pupdog1
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Truly an empty sack of oats.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:59 | 5919343 blindman
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could it be that the kings of the money system
create optimal opportunity for their scam
and participants as conflict among the
unwashed results in flesh torn from the bone
and minds butchered from their spirits?
.
oh, yea; could be.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 16:59 | 5919346 Fix It Again Timmy
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Someone will get a big promotion and an award for this which shows HOW totally fucked in the ass our sorry, incompetent, bumblefuck government really IS...

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:02 | 5919353 Playtime's Over
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Details details, the emporer can't be bothered. Brackets to ponder. The pathetic man cunt told some children he invented health care. Why on earth would he need to concern himself with anything ever again.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:02 | 5919356 SilvertonguedAngel
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Shia Houthi's run bartertown now. US left the weapons for the Sunnis. If past performance is any indicator the Houthi's will capture them like the NovoRussians captured the weapons we left for the zionazi's.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:11 | 5919393 blindman
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the money system demands anti-economy.
there is no economy, that was just common sense.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:25 | 5919439 Clowns on Acid
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$500MM ? Who cares? We can print moar and it will keep people employed.

Sheesh .. jobs, jobs, jobs, What difference does it make?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:12 | 5919608 Ban KKiller
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I was promised an LSD flashback. Is this it? 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:35 | 5919472 windcatcher
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“Obviously, "can't account for" means "has lost.": Should be more like “stolen”.

For all you folks that are looking forward to anarchy without laws, there it is; how do you like it?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:26 | 5919661 MeelionDollerBogus
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It's not anarchy until we all have the same equal freedoms & risks under a lawless land with no single tyrant ruling us.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:47 | 5919728 windcatcher
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In reply to bogus: Apparently, you are so brainwashed stupid and ignorant that you do not even realize that your statement makes no logical sense.

You are another “F” student that is full of unfounded American hubris that is under the bidding of a propagandist brainwasher. Who controls your uneducated pea brain? Ha. Ha. Ha.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 15:18 | 5922540 MeelionDollerBogus
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The source of my non-brainwashing is that I'm not American. Don't work there, live there, not from there.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:36 | 5919478 lincis
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ooops, we armored som folks

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:42 | 5919500 Hannibal
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Is no problem, AL Queda-CIA or whatever, same diffenrence. Mission Accomplished!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:24 | 5919649 MeelionDollerBogus
Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:44 | 5919505 drdolittle
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that's good, right? Broken windows and stuff. Look for the market to open big tomorrow.

And, I will take a set of night vsion goggles and one of each, shotgun and ar.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:47 | 5919517 Lmo Mutton
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If they are in alciada hands they are in U.S. hands.
Besides, anybody that has herded sheep for half a day knows you can just fire up a Cessna Caravan or CN235 and fly it off with noooooo problem.
The keys are always in the ignition or under the floor mat. Geeez.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:48 | 5919518 orangegeek
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arm the other side before running live tests on new weapons technology

 

been done so many times in the past

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:52 | 5919535 yellowsub
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Arm them with pea shooters and given the US a reason to Tomahawk them.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 17:54 | 5919538 Dugald
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If our fine, brave men and women of our glorious armed forces should be killed in action, then it is only right, fitting and honorable, that they be killed by American made weapons manufactured by their highly skilled and dedicated fellow Americans.

Why my Fellow Americans it gives me a wam glow, just thinking about.........

(Foghorn Leghorn would make a good orator for the above....)

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 20:47 | 5920135 One Eyed Jack
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A Paul Krugman wet-dream, It's a broken window factory! Kissing cousin to the self licking ice cream cone.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:11 | 5919596 css1971
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Wait.. We were always at war with Yemen?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:18 | 5919628 MeelionDollerBogus
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Of course we were always at war with Yemerasia, Winston.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:12 | 5919605 diluted intelligence
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meanwhile in Europe: Czechs told not to throw tomatoes, eggs at US military convoy

http://rt.com/news/243221-czech-us-convoy-tomatoes-warnings/

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 20:42 | 5920130 One Eyed Jack
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That's no way to greet liberators....flowers are traditional..you know like in the Middle East!

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:12 | 5919606 p00k1e
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I'll buy some night vision, please.

Any hollow points in the ammo?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:14 | 5919612 Ban KKiller
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The point is to sell arms and keep conflict alive by any means. 

Don't give Obama credit for this, he is just the puppet for the banksters. 

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:20 | 5919635 p00k1e
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Everything is a scam.

We are made to feel bad cutting arms and tail pieces off bronze statues (cordless tools) and selling the metal for scrap.  

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:17 | 5919622 MeelionDollerBogus
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The Obama administration will not rest until they find the real gun-runners! :)

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 20:44 | 5920138 silverer
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Ha! They'd better not disarm the U.S. civilian population, they may need them for backup when the military loses the rest of theirs.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 20:56 | 5920174 rickster
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How unusual for the Obumbla Admin. not to know what's actually going on in his own Administration-but he's gonna find out come hell or high water-well this is spring and you know what that means after all the snow we had this winter-Floods so we know where the high water is at least. Keep up the good work Uncle Sammy.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:19 | 5919629 Dre4dwolf
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Hmm, they need to put Eric Holder in charge, Im sure he can handle it and get back all those missing weapons.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:30 | 5919670 MR166
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Yea, "Looses" is a very kind way to put it.  It is more like they purposley supplied them with the weapons.  After all you can't arm ISIS and not arm Al-Qaeda, that would upset the balance of power.

 

The termoil in the Middle East is all part of the master plan.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 18:33 | 5919675 Panic Mode
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Moar Noble Peace Price.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 19:21 | 5919850 Gort
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"You Yemons didn't build those Hueys!"

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 19:29 | 5919885 Demdere
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There is no $500B in that list, even with huge graft.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 19:48 | 5919954 TheSettler
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$500 million...with an M...

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:15 | 5920541 Urban Redneck
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You are correct (other than B vs M, but it amounts to neither) although I have never peddled arms for Uncle Sam, so the margins might be slightly higher.  The "free" cash flow for the MIC shareholders is in program maintenance and consumables, and while 100% percent markups wouldn't raise any eyebrows (except to buyers, and their consultants also often mark shit up just as insanely, so that the President, Minister of Defense, and assorted Generals all get their taxpayer funded reach-arounds) -- if this was coming basically directly from the USSA - there would not have been the whole chain of middle men each slapping on an insane markup in an effort to create plausible deniability while enriching cronies.  

However, "Washington has supplied more than $500 million in military aid to Yemen since 2007 under an array of Defense Department and State Department programs."  which could also include the Haliburton catering every time a US Navy ship pulling anti-pirate duty off Somalia needs to restock, as well as the cost of droning US citizens and their children in Yemen... perhaps Dubya should have reworded his critique to, "The antiseptic notion of launching a cruise missile into some guy's, you know, tent, really is an expensive joke... I mean, people viewed that as the impotent America . . . of a flaccid, you know, kind of technologically competent but not very tough country that was willing to launch a cruise missile out of a submarine and that'd be it."

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 20:07 | 5920033 Zodiac
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Al Qaeda wants to know when the rest of the arms and equipment will be delivered?  Has the State Department released a timetable yet?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 20:41 | 5920125 blindman
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if they hire the right legal firm they
most likely could sue and win for lost
revenues, damages
and such, coming soon.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 20:28 | 5920097 One Eyed Jack
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The corrupt illegitimate muscle for an illegitimate organized criminal syndicate .gov.

If a soldier loses his weapon he will be punished, these crooks "LOSE" enough weapons to supply a small army (and likely did)

I'm calling black book bullshit; they didn't lose shit they supplied their proxy army of the official budget.

There needs to be another Nuremburg trial, with the same outcome for these Nazis for the same reasons.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 20:42 | 5920127 silverer
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We need another federal department for this.  Welcome the new "Federal Dept. of Misallocated Weapons".  Hmm, needs a staff of 2,500, annual budget around 1.2B.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:02 | 5920199 Sixdeuce062
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all that and no Obamaphone or Obamacare  I call bullcrap how can you get a rifle without an obamaphone

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:03 | 5920205 enloe creek
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http://www.inquisitr.com/1946282/shia-labeouf-may-have-charges-dropped-i... sorry but you folks are not staying on message. Here is your prescribed thinking material get back on message

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 21:20 | 5920268 Fix It Again Timmy
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ISIS shops at Uncle Sammy's for all its terrorist's needs - no cash needed and all you can carry......

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:13 | 5920408 Bumbu Sauce
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This is by design folks.  The Obama Cabal is INTENTIONALLY passing arms to ISIS and other radical islamists because THAT IS WHO HE IS.

Quit playing stupid or chalking it up to his incomepetence.  

OBAMA is ISIS.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:18 | 5920426 Casual_Observer
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Love the irony.

This administration goes to great lengths to disarm Us of our 2A right and then they go and lose $500 million dollars worth of weapons in a part of the world where there are millions of people who want to kill us.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:22 | 5920434 Casual_Observer
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P.S are there Yemeni drug dealers Obama and Holder are trying to track????

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 22:23 | 5920438 homiegot
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I suspect this may be their first installment of many.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:30 | 5920570 petroglyph
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So, are we going to deliver the rest of that stuff or what?

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:55 | 5920620 BDF_NYC
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It's all part of the master plan.

Give them weapons so that we can then spend 100x times that money to destroy the weapons with missles.  How else can we keep the military-industrial complex fully employed and profitable?   Besides, the Navy pilots and drone operators need the target practice.

Mon, 03/23/2015 - 23:56 | 5920623 Counterpunch
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What do you figure, maybe 85% Americans believe what they are being told about ISIS.  Is there a single msm news source that does anything, seriously, but regurgitate .gov's narrative?

 

Seymour Hersh can't even get published in the US these days.

 

Still, they'll start going after alternative media on the web...  'hate' speech, of course.

 

At this point, the government, especially a female Dem prez, could open 'political re-education' camps, and there'd be no more upset than when Snowden told us .gov spies on all of us all the time (and gives the raw data to Israel)...

 

The American people not only won't save themselves, they are no longer worth saving.  they have allowed their government and intelligence agencies to become thugs and death dealers for the banks, weapons manufacturers, large corporations, and International Zionism.

 

And no one is going to come and save the day.

 

Hedge accordingly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 00:11 | 5920658 Bumbu Sauce
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International Zionism>?

You fucks sure are queer.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 00:33 | 5920702 Counterpunch
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Careful.

 

I might get to thinking you're trying to hurt my feelings.

 

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 12:59 | 5922026 Bumbu Sauce
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I sincerely doubt a fucking sociopath like you has feelings.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 04:50 | 5920899 Lynn Trainor
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Americans will wake up when it is too late to escape the snare.

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Tue, 03/24/2015 - 00:49 | 5920717 Motasaurus
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Aren't the rebels in Yemen Iranian-Shia, and not Alawite-Sunni? Doesn't that mean that the military equipment was lost to the only true enemy of Al Qaeda?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 04:47 | 5920892 Lynn Trainor
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If a foreign enemy got control of the White House, it couldn't do a worse job of destroying this country than Obama has done.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 07:27 | 5921034 capitallosses
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Where's Abel Danger when you need them? Oh, yeh, there was that random missle on 9/11, need a new team.

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 07:39 | 5921046 JohnFrodo
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I see a pattern. US floods an area with weapons and then leaves. Hmmmm!

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:11 | 5921089 localizer
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"a weapon unused is a useless weapon" - that's a really good line, makes a lot of sense actually... /s

lol, somebody misred the sarcasm

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 08:08 | 5921098 Jack Daniels Esq
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The USG is dumber than Amanada Knox

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 08:22 | 5921133 betterlockaway
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So the shia miltia, which are proxies of Iran, have chased thed USA out of Yemen.  These are the same guys we are negoitsting a nuclear treaty with.  Right?  All good.  Hope and change.  AQ on the run.  Yemen good.  Obama said so.  When is the next episode of the "bachelor"?  I have to binge watch something to forget all these threats. 

But, what happens when the bad guys decide to come over here again a mess some stuff up?  Obama suspends the writ of habeas corpus and arrests anyone that disagrees with him?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 11:04 | 5921599 samsara
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Ya, Right.

"But, what happens when the bad guys decide to come over here again a mess some stuff up?"

You mean with their blue water navy and extensive landing craft inventory?

I'm Scared, 

Again?  You don't mean 911 do you?   They would have to clear that with the Mossad and CIA won't they?

Tue, 03/24/2015 - 09:07 | 5921234 mickeyman
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You're really running ads for JPMorgue?!

Wed, 03/25/2015 - 16:07 | 5926624 talisman
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"losing weapons" is double-dipping.
First: they have to be replaced.
Second: they are used to wipe out the replacement weapons.

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