Mahdi Army on High Alert Sadrists Brace for Confrontation, Dulaimi Calls on Arabs to "Save Iraqi Sunnis" While the Sunni Iraqi Accord Front (IAF) announced that it welcomes the initiative of Prime Minister al-Maliki and his call for a summit gathering Iraqi leaders, al-Jazeera confirmed that Iyad 'Allawi’s bloc, the “Iraqi List,” was not invited to the conference. The Qatar-based news channel quoted an Iraqi List leader, 'izzat al-Shahabandar, who said that his coalition has not yet received a formal invitation to join the talks.
'Allawi’s allies in the IAF had hinted earlier that they might not participate in such meetings if 'Allawi was excluded. Sources close to 'Allawi claimed repeatedly that Iran vetoes 'Allawi from negotiations involving its Iraqi allies. However, the IAF does not seem to be expecting a smooth ride in the coming negotiations. The Sunni party anticipated the summit by launching, through its leader 'Adnan al-Dulaimi, a “call for help” from Arab countries, asking them to aid the Sunnis of Iraq. According to al-Hayat, al-Dulaimi (now notorious for his fiery statements) asked Arab leaders to “save the Sunnis of Baghdad who, according to the IAF leader, “are subjected to the worst forms of injustice and persecution ... the like of which Iraq did not witness before.” Dulaimi charged that “Safavid militias” are cleansing Baghdad of its Sunni inhabitants and are in the process of transforming it into a “Persian city.” Meanwhile, Az-Zaman quoted an IAF leader who said that “American touches” are expected to be present in the coming summit, but that US intervention will not go as far as “pressuring political blocs.” While Maliki readies to negotiate with the Sunni opposition, his efforts are ongoing to choose non-IAF Sunni candidates to take up the empty ministerial seats – in case negotiations with the IAF do not reach a conciliatory end. Al-Jazeera and al-Hayat reported that “consultations” are afoot between al-Maliki and Anbari tribal leaders to select new Sunni ministers from the “Council for the Salvation of Anbar,” which was supported and armed by the government in order to battle al-Qa'ida in the troublesome province; but the government is planning to bestow a political role upon the tribal militias. A member of the “Salvation Council” told al-Hayat that Sunni ministers should be named from his organization if the IAF insists on boycotting the government. The tribal leader went on to launch an attack on the Sunni front, saying that “(the IAF) does not represent Sunni Arabs in Iraq, and has not made any noteworthy achievements during its presence in the government.” Aside from the governmental crisis in Baghdad, worrisome signs emanate from the South of the country where Shi'a militias and organizations seem on the brink of a inter-Shi'a “civil war,” as several Arab papers have noted. The tension was escalated when the governor of the southern Qadisiya province, along with a police brigadier, charged with internal security in the province, were assassinated. Both men were affiliated with al-Hakeem’s SIIC and its militia, the Badr organization. Fingers were quickly pointed towards the Mahdi Army, and rumors spread claiming that the explosive charges that killed the governor were of the armor-piercing type imported from Iran, and known to be used by the Mahdi Army. The Sadrist movement and the SIIC have been engaged in turf wars in several southern cities. Assassinations, in addition to street fights and clashes, have become increasingly frequent in the contested areas. Al-Hayat said that the Mahdi Army – the military wing of the Sadrist movement, has been put on a state of alert, with fears of reprisals on the part of Badr, and talks of a broad US campaign against the Sadrist militia. A Sadr aid told the newspaper that Maliki and the US are both taking aggressive postures towards his organization. Sheikh Ahmad al-Shibani told the paper that “Maliki’s government is most worried about the increasing influence of the Current.” The Sadrist leader also said that “the US is working on two parallel fronts: pleasing the Sunnis and preventing Iran from turning the Mahdi Army ... into a Shi'a Jihadi group similar to Hizbollah.”
Extremists Demand Cars -- and Maybe Girls Mahdi Army Ambush Tactics; Sadr City Kids Gather Spent Shells; Ice Prices Spike
In Baghdad’s western al-Jami'a district, Sunni militants controlling the district have issued a decree that every family in the area owning two or more cars should donate one car to the mujahidin, residents told IraqSlogger. Meanwhile, locals observed the tactics of the powerful Mahdi Army as it ambushes US forces in Bahgdad's streets, and children in the impoverished Sadr City now use their old soccer field to scavenge scrap metal from exploded ordinance. Around the Iraqi capital, exclusive eyewitnesses to the turbulent events of the Baghdad summer told Slogger what they've seen in recent days. In al-Jami'a, in addition to the demand that resients cede their extra vehicles to the militants, there are also rumors that single women in the predominantly Sunni district will be forced to marry a “mujahid,” that is one of the extremist Sunni militants that have taken control of the area.
Slogger’s staff in Iraq points out that a similar order was handed down in Falluja two years ago when the Majlis Shoura al-Mujahidin (Mujahadin Consultative Council) declared that single girls in the city must wed Arab suicide bombers, even days before the men conducted their final operations. Falluja’s residents fiercely opposed the order, and 'Abdullah al-Janabi, the leader of the council at that time, was made to reverse the policy.
Mahdi Army ambush The Mahdi Army, loyal to the Sadrist current, led by the Shi'a cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, has developed a pattern of strategic operations against US forces in Baghdad’s narrow streets. The Shi'a militia will launch surprise attacks against the Americans when they enter the smaller roads and alleyways in the areas under Mahdi Army influence. The Sadrist militiamen often refrain from attacks against US forces in the wider open roads, where US forces may have a stronger hand.
The Americans broke that arrangement two days ago, entering the small roads in the residential areas of the eastern al-Ubaidi district, residents report. Mahdi Army militiamen ambushed the US force, killing one American soldier. The gunmen had already stolen away as the Americans blocked the area and began shooting arbitrarily, Slogger’s sources say. Such a strategy hinders US forces from penetrating dense urban areas under Mahdi Army control, and allows the militia to even the odds against superior US firepower.
Mahdi Army members were also observed in Baghdad’s lawless southwestern Hay al-'Amil dumping three men’s bodies in an open field. Residents of al-'Amil have used the field as a refuse heap as municipal services have broken down. Also in Baghdad’s southwestern area, snipers, presumably Sunni extremists in neighboring areas, still fire on the large open market in the predominantly Shi'a Bayya' district. Three people were killed during the last several days, locals told Slogger.
Checkpoint confrontation Iraqi officers at a security checkpoint in the Bab al-Mu'adham area tried to stop two cars that were traveling on the wrong side of the road. The two cars apparently belonged to an important Iraqi political party. The checkpoint officer tried to speak with the men in the two offending vehicles but the men’s bodyguards struck him, prompting the soldiers staffing the checkpoint to fire warning shots. No one was injured by the gunfire, but the two cars apparently called for backup. A detachment of vehicles roared into the central Baghdad district, on the eastern bank of the Tigris, and surrounded the checkpoint. The squadron included four ambulances filled with gunmen, their rifles pointed at the Iraqi forces manning the checkpoint.
The standoff was defused when the checkpoint officer apologized to the men, and the convoy departed. Local sources could not identify the affiliation of the men, although the ambulances suggest that they may be related to the Sadrist current, which formerly controlled the ministry of health.
Scavengers of war In Sadr City, near the Sadda area, US helicopters train daily in a soccer field, dropping ordinance on imaginary ground targets. Local children, who used to play soccer on the football pitch before it was commandeered by US forces for their maneuvers, wait every day for the operations every day from the early morning, in order to scavenge empty shells to sell them to local brass factories as scrap.
Expensive ice blocks The price of ice blocks, a Baghdad summer staple, has reached 8,000 Iraqi dinars, the equivalent of over 6 dollars, for a single block. Some residents suspect price gouging on the part of ice manufacturers in the high summer temperatures. The mercury hit 113 degrees (F) on Thursday. The ice factories say that the high prices are caused by the high prices of fuel in the city.
Dudes, loads of reports at the moment about the Mehdi Army but here is the best one. Shiite Militia Expands Grip in Baghdad By SALLY BUZBEE, Associated Press Writer 6:58 PM PDT, August 18, 2007
BAGHDAD -- The street market bustles in the early mornings and late afternoons as shoppers come out to buy fruit, bread, clothes and toys. Late into the hot summer nights, whole families gather to eat grilled kebabs at tiny stalls, their small children shrieking as they play tag.
The Hurriyah neighborhood of northwest Baghdad, gripped by a spasm of deadly ethnic violence a year ago, has grown markedly calmer over the past eight months. It is now the kind of area that both U.S. and Iraqi officials point to when they cite progress at stabilizing Baghdad.
But only Shiites are welcome -- or safe -- in Hurriyah these days. And neither Iraq's government nor U.S. or Iraqi security forces are truly in control.
Instead, the Mahdi Army militia runs this area as it does others across Baghdad -- manning checkpoints, collecting rental fees for apartments, licensing bus drivers, mediating family fights and even handing out gas for cooking.
The U.S. Army still runs regular patrols, sometimes on foot, sometimes by Humvee. And Iraqi police, on the streets, are nominally in charge.
But underneath the calm, an armed group hostile to the United States holds a firm grip on power. Some fear the Mahdi Army is simply biding its time -- eager to grab outward control and run things its way whenever U.S. forces pull back.
"They control people's lives," said one resident of Hurriyah, a Shiite government employee who would give his name only as Abu Mahdi, 36, because he feared Mahdi militia reprisals. Scornfully calling them uneducated, bullying teenagers, he said: "They are worse than the Baathists" -- the party that held total authority under the rule of Saddam Hussein.
Others are more supportive of the militia.
"Our area is safe because of the presence of the Mahdi Army," said Abu Hussein, a 50-year-old taxi driver, who also refused to give his full name. "Most people feel that way. Very few are anti-Mahdi Army."
Yet even Abu Hussein can find the militia oppressive. The rent payments they collect from fellow Shiites displaced from other parts of the city, who now live in apartments in Hurriyah that once belonged to Sunnis, are little more than protection money, he complained.
At a store last week to buy ice, Abu Hussein said he came across the storekeeper and a customer arguing over a payment. When the customer threatened to take his complaint to the Mahdi Army, the storekeeper began stammering in fear. "His face got red," Abu Hussein said.
The Mahdi Army's control here has its roots in the ferocious wave of ethnic hatred that rippled across an arc of formerly mixed Baghdad neighborhoods last summer and fall.
Until late 2005, Hurriyah was a relatively safe, working-class community of Sunnis and Shiites. The first signs of trouble began that year, when gunmen from a Sunni extremist group began abducting and killing Shiites. In early 2006, Mahdi Army militiamen from their base in nearby Sadr City -- about seven miles to the east -- set up an office in Hurriyah's main outdoor market, promising Shiites protection.
Last fall, fliers went up, warning that 10 Sunnis would die for every Shiite killed. As a wave of Sunni car bomb attacks on Shiites killed hundreds across Baghdad, reprisal attacks on Sunnis steadily escalated.
Throughout the fall, dozens of bodies turned up each day in Hurriyah and other neighborhoods. By late November, Sunni mosques in Hurriyah were being attacked, never yet to reopen. U.S. troops came under frequent sniper fire. Schools closed.
By early December, almost all Sunnis had fled Hurriyah, except for a handful of elderly Sunnis, and the Mahdi Army was running several checkpoints. By March, Shiites who had been displaced elsewhere were moving into Hurriyah, taking the shops and apartments of Sunnis who had fled.
By May, the murder rate in Hurriyah fell from more than 200 a week in December to about 10 a week, according to U.S. military forces then.
When the surge of American troops gathered steam in late spring, the Mahdi Army generally stood down from confrontation, on the orders of its leader, the firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
Yet behind the scenes, the group stepped even more strongly into the "government's authority vacuum," said Abu Mustafa, 37, a government employee and father of three. "People began to rely on the Mahdi Army and Sadr's office in everything -- even in family affairs."
A few weeks ago, a dispute among brothers living in a house in his alley caused one brother to go to a Mahdi Army office and bring back armed men, Abu Mustafa said. Panicked neighbors prodded the brothers to make up before the militiamen could intervene.
Residents say only a handful of elderly Sunnis now remain. One Shiite woman -- divorced from a Sunni man -- fled recently with her 12-year-old son after Shiite militias broke into her parents' house and threatened to kill the boy because he was Sunni.
The neighborhood's three main streets are blocked by checkpoints run by teenagers, none wearing uniforms, but with pistols sometimes tucked in their belts and walkie talkies in hand. They stop and question each driver.
U.S. forces -- and even locals -- are hard pressed to know who is a militiamen and who just a resident. But U.S. officers on the ground say they believe the neighborhood is firmly under the militia's control, infiltrating and influencing the Iraqi police who patrol the area.
The Mahdi Army, or JAM in Arabic, is like "a neighborhood watch group on steroids," said Lt. Col. Steve Miska, 39, from Greenport, N.Y., head of the U.S. Army's Task Force Justice, part of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division.
The local area council in Hurriyah also is controlled by the group. The council is supposed to control the distribution of fuel and cooking gas cylinders to people. But the Mahdi Army usually takes this task, giving preference to loyalists and relatives, said Abu Hussein, the group's supporter.
Because he is not an insider, he is forced to buy his gas on the black market, he said.
Almost all women now wear the full Islamic hijab veil, even girls in elementary school. During school holidays, boys and girls are encouraged to attend religious courses held in Shiite mosques, and are given CDs of songs of the Mahdi Army.
"Hurriyah is a very beautiful place," said Abu Mustafa, the government employee who said he helped in Iraq's first elections and once held high hopes for his country. "But unfortunately, it fell in the hands of gangs."
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Associated Press writer Lauren Frayer and an Iraqi reporter in Baghdad, whose name is being withheld for security reasons, contributed to this report.
"If the UN comes here to truly help the Iraqi people, they will receive our help in their work. I would ask my followers to support the UN as long as it is here to help us rebuild our country".
Now how long do you think it'll take for him to re-define what he means by this statement and start moves to force the UN out so he gets Iraq all to himself? This guy was hiding like a dog in Iran when Saddam was in power so in fact it was the occupiers who gave him the opportunity to return and emerge as "the saviour of the poor". He is one of the few who has benifitted from the occupation and should be thanking the yanks for coming over and destroying our country.
Sadr pledges to work with UN if it replaces US, Britain in Iraq LONDON (AFP) - Radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has pledged to commit his forces and followers to help the United Nations were it to replace American and British troops in Iraq, in an interview published on Monday.
Speaking to The Independent newspaper from his movement's headquarters in Kufa, south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, Sadr said that he would "support the UN if it comes and replaces the American and British occupiers."
"If the UN comes here to truly help the Iraqi people, they will receive our help in their work. I would ask my followers to support the UN as long as it is here to help us rebuild our country.
"They must not just be another face of the American occupation."
Sadr, who enjoys popular grassroot support among Iraqi Shiites, is a powerful political player in Iraq's embattled government led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. His anti-American views have frequently seen his Mahdi Army militia clashing with US soldiers since the US-led March 2003 invasion to topple Saddam Hussein. Sadr told the daily that the British army's downscaling in Iraq was a sign that it had given up and was defeated, saying: "They are retreating because of the resistance they have faced. Without that, they would have stayed for much longer, there is no doubt."
He also warned that Britain's involvement in Iraq had endangered its citizens at home: "The British put their soldiers in a dangerous position by sending them here but they also put the people in their own country in danger." "They have made enemies among all Muslims and they now face attacks at home because of their war. That was their mistake."
Britain has about 5,500 troops in Iraq, most of whom are based in the southern city of Basra. Sadr said that Basra would become a safer place after the British military left. On domestic Iraqi politics, Sadr said that Maliki's days as Iraqi leader were coming to a close: "Al-Maliki's government will not survive because he has proven that he will not work with important elements of the Iraqi people ... The prime minister is a tool for the Americans and people see that clearly."
"It will probably be the Americans who decide to change him when they realise he has failed. We don't have a democracy here, we have a foreign occupation."
Sadr also denied American claims that he was being armed by Iran.
Dudes, to all those who think we need to get rid of the Americans pronto I say again first thing we need to do is purge Iraq from these stupid Militias. Read below:
Basra police 'work for militias' Some Iraqi police officers in Basra are working for Shia Muslim militias and carrying out sectarian violence, the UK's chief police adviser has warned.
Mike Colbourne, assistant chief constable of Bedfordshire, admitted there were officers who were guilty of corruption, kidnap and murder. But he said the situation was getting better and promised UK forces would not leave until Iraqis were ready. He told BBC's The World at One "We know that there are bad apples."
Mr Colbourne said that in spite of an anti-militia drive by the new provincial director of police, Major General Jaleel Khalaf Shuwail, a number of officers were still linked to violence. He added: "The corruption that we are talking about does range from financial corruption through to serious offences such as murder, kidnap.
"There are a number of Iraqi police service officers who are clearly aligned to militias. "I think it is fair to say that there is sectarian violence that is being committed by both police officers and other Iraqi security forces officers.
"That is just the truth of the situation as it is at the moment.
"We know that there are bad apples and there are a significant number of both serving, but also those who have been sacked and retired, officers who continue to agitate and continue to be involved in violence."
Mr Colbourne said that British police advisers were helping Iraqi officers to drive out corruption from their ranks. BBC Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen said it would have been easier to address the problems as they were building up after British troops captured Basra in 2003 and not now, when the end of the British occupation was in sight. He added that Mr Colbourne's comments came at a time when Britain was being widely criticised for losing control of Basra.
'Hearts and minds' The respected International Crisis Group, in a report earlier this summer, said that Basra was controlled by rival Shia militias, and British forces there appeared to have given up trying to impose the rule of law. But Mr Colbourne insisted that British forces would not pull out until their Iraqi counterparts were ready to take over.
"We are not looking to leave Iraq. We want to leave Iraq when the job is done, when we actually have got an effective Iraqi security force structure that is going to support a peaceful transition," he said.
"It is the hearts and minds and intentions of those officers and how they then relate to the wider public which now is concerning us.
"They know that there will be an end date. They know that we will be leaving Iraq and when we do leave Iraq they do need to be able to step up their game to take on the role of policing and they have got to do it well."
you are 100% about that we really need to purge Iraq from these stupid Militias, also the united nations are big hypocrites and they not telling the truth in anything they are bunch of toys are controlling them.
Tribes Attack Mahdi Army in BaghdadTwo-Month Truce Broken in Lawless Southwestern Districts; Eyewitness Accounts A brief truce between rural Sunni tribes and Shi'a militants in and around Baghdad’s lawless southwestern zone broke down on Tuesday, Slogger sources report, as tribal forces aligned with Sunni extremists launched an attack on urban strongholds of the Shi'a Mahdi Army. The al-Qa'ida-aligned tribesmen attacked the Shi'a district of al-Shurta al-Khamisa, with support from al-Qa'ida fighters.
Members of the al-Quryan and al-Zoba' tribes moved in on al-Shurta district from the rural Radhwaniya area, outside the city, southwest of Bahgdad International Airport. The attack shattered a two-month truce between the warring militants. The Sunni tribes and their rival Shi'a militiamen had observed a cease-fire in the southwestern Baghad areas of al-Shurta, and al-Suwaib, which border the rural areas just outside the city’s urban zone that have been a stronghold of Sunni extremist groups.
Residents report that over fifteen people were killed during the attack, among them civilians. The urban areas in southwestern Baghdad form a zone known collectively as al-Rashid, where Sunni and Shi'a militias have battled in an ongoing turf war, and where the Iraqi and US forces have been unable or unwilling to impose control. In addition, the rural areas outside the districts are strongholds of tribes aligned with Sunni militant groups, which often attack the predominantly Shi'a districts of al-Shurta, al-Suwaib, and al-Ma'alif that abut the rural area.
Rural areas just outside of al-Shurta are known as among the most dangerous places in the Baghdad area, dominated by tribal forces aligned with al-Qa'ida. Meanwhile, US forces detained a Mahdi Army commander in the al-Shurta al-Rabi'adistrict, and four of his aides. The Shi'a militia attacked a US Humvee over the weekend, which appears to have prompted US forces to move forces again into the al-Risala area, residents report.
The American military later targeted four members of the Mahdi Army who were traveling in a Mercedes, eyewitnesses said. Residents report that the militiamen escaped, but that casualties were observed among civilian bystanders in the crossfire. Unidentified bodies have begun to appear again in the al-Risala area. At least four corpses have been dumped in the area in recent days. The practice is considered a hallmark of Shi'a militias such as the Mahdi Army, upon whom the rumors and speculation of the district’s residents centers.
Also in the lawless southwestern areas, residents report that the sniper targeting the predominantly Shi'a Bayya' area appears to be based in neighboring Saidiya. The sniper is well-situated, residents report, able to paralyze the highway running through the area from Bayya' through to the Yarmouk area in the north.
On another note, in spite of the sectarian tensions in Baghdad’s southwestern districts, Ma'alif residents held a funeral for a Shi'a man who died last week, and locals report that his Sunni friends helped his family out with the arrangements. In other periods in Iraqi history, such acts would not have appeared newsworthy, locals tell Slogger.
This Militia is illegal so "freezing" it will mean nothing. Sadr should disband his crazies and go back to Tehran where he blongs.
Sadr 'freezes' militia activities
Radical Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr says he is freezing the activities of his Mehdi Army militia for up to six months in order to re-organise it.
He has also called on all its offices to co-operate with the security forces and exercise "self-control".
Analysts see the move as an attempt by Moqtada Sadr to regain control over his increasingly divided militia. The order was read out at a news conference in Karbala, where fighting on Tuesday killed more than 50 people. Police blamed the Mehdi Army for the violence, but it denied involvement.
'Rehabilitation' A curfew is now in force in the city, where the situation is said to be calm. At the Karbala news conference, one of Moqtada Sadr's aides read out a statement announcing that the Mehdi Army had suspended all its activities.
"We declare the freezing of the Mehdi Army without exception in order to rehabilitate it in a way that will safeguard its ideological image within a maximum period of six months starting from the day this statement is issued," Sheikh Hazim al-Araji said. In Najaf, another spokesman said the order included "suspending the taking up of arms against occupiers, as well as others".
In April 2007, the US defence department described the Mehdi Army as the greatest threat to Iraq's security, replacing al-Qaeda in Iraq as the country's "most dangerous accelerant of potentially self-sustaining sectarian violence".
The militia has split in recent months into increasingly autonomous factions, some of which the US says are trained and armed by Iran.
However, the BBC's Mike Wooldridge in Baghdad says past experience of attempted purges of rogue elements in the militia will doubtless lead US and UK commanders to be wary and watch for the effect of the order on the ground. The Mehdi Army was created by Mr Sadr in the summer of 2003 to protect the Shia religious authorities in the holy city of Najaf. The militia strongly opposed the presence of the US-led coalition and took part in major uprisings against security forces in April and August 2004. It has also been linked to many sectarian attacks on Iraq's Sunni Arabs and has frequently clashed with rival Shia militia. The Mehdi Army has become one of the major armed forces on the ground in Baghdad and southern Iraq, with a membership of around 60,000, according to a December 2006 report by the Iraq Survey Group.
Can't say I'll be losing much sleep over this one.
Sadr City Under Siege Iraqi Security Forces Close Bridges, Permit Entry But Not Exit Baghdad, Aug 30, (VOI)- Iraqi security forces have besieged Sadr City in eastern Baghdad and sealed off the city's main outlets, eyewitnesses said.
"Iraqi security forces closed bridges over al-Jaish Canal, which represent the main outlets to Sadr City, and banned anyone from leaving without specified reasons, however they are allowing entry into the city," an eyewitness told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
"Last night was calm and the city witnessed no clashes or unrest, so residents were surprised at today's siege," another eyewitness said.
The siege came one day after the decision taken by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to freeze al-Mahdi Army for six months. The decision was taken after recent speculation and accusations against al-Mahdi Army of being involved in the violent acts in the city of Karbala, where scores were killed and injured. Sadr City is the stronghold of al-Mahdi Army. Al-Sadr decided to freeze the Mahdi Army and called for what he described, in a statement, as "an impartial investigation into the incidents."
The city of Karbala, 108 km southwest of Baghdad, has been the scene of fierce clashes on Monday and Tuesday when gunmen clashed with police forces. The clashes left 35 dead and up to 130 wounded, according to recent statements from the defense ministry. The clashes took place in Karbala while the Shiite city was receiving hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims heading for the shrines of imams al-Hussein and al-Abbas as a prelude to celebrating the birth anniversary of Imam al-Mahdi on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
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