Mutori wenhau akazvimirira Jeremy Scahill, munyori we Mvura yakasviba: Kukwira Kwenyika Inesimba Kwazvo Mercenary Mauto, anotarisa zvitsva zvinopomerwa kuti kambani yemamercenary Blackwater yakabhadharwa neCIA kuuraya nhengo dze al-Qaeda.
MUNA APRIL 2002, CIA yakabhadhara Blackwater mari inodarika madhora mashanu kuti itumire boka diki revarume mukati.
Iye zvino New York Times arikutaurisa kuti muna 2004 CIA yakahaya Blackwater "sechikamu chechirongwa chakavanzika chekutsvaga nekuuraya vakuru veal-Qaeda." Maererano ne Times, "hazvizivikanwe kana CIA yakanga yaronga kushandisa makondirakiti kubata kana kuuraya vashandi veQaeda, kana kuti kungobatsira kudzidzisa uye kuongorora."
The Times inoshuma kuti:
iyo CIA yakanga isina chibvumirano chepamutemo neBlackwater yechirongwa ichi asi pachinzvimbo chaive nezvibvumirano zvega nevakuru vakuru vekambani, kusanganisira muvambi, Erik D. Prince, aimbova nhengo yezvematongerwo enyika aimbova nhengo yeNavy Seals uye mugari wenhaka kupfuma yemhuri.
Mumwe mukuru wehungwaru akasiya basa "anonyatsoziva chirongwa chekuuraya" akaudza vatori venhau Washington Post, "Outsourcing kwakapa agency dziviriro yakawedzerwa kana paine chakashata." The Post yakashuma kuti Blackwater "yakapiwa basa rekushanda rekunongedza vatungamiri vemagandanga uye yakapiwa mamiriyoni emadhora ekudzidzira nezvombo, asi chirongwa chacho chakamiswa pamberi pemisheni ipi neipi yaitwa."
"Zvaiitwa nesangano neBlackwater zvinondivhundutsa," akadaro Jack Rice, aimbove mushandisi weCIA aishandira dhipatimendi remabasa, iro rinoita mabasa emauto eCIA.
"Kana sangano rinopa hutongi hwese uye simba kusangano rakazvimirira, sangano rakaita seBlackwater, zvakanyanya kukosha ivo vanotadza kutonga uye havanzwisise zviri kuitika," Rice akaudza. The Nation. "Chinotonyanya kuipa ndechekuti iwe unogona kutendeuka uye ugova nekuramba. Vanogona kuti, 'Hatisi isu, hatisi isu tinoita sarudzo.' Ndizvo zvakanakisa pasirese.Inofanana nezvatinonzwa nezvekurwadziswa kwaiitwa muzita revanhu vekuAmerica, pataingoisa munhu mumaoko evaSyria kana maEgypt kana vamwe tobva tatendeuka toti, 'Isu'. hamusi kutambudza vanhu.'
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ZVAKASVIKIRWA nerunhare, Illinois Democrat Jan Schakowsky, nhengo yeHouse Intelligence Committee, akati nekuda kwemhiko yake yekuvanzika pazvinhu zvine hungwaru, haakwanise kusimbisa kana kuramba kuti Congress yaiziva nezvekupinda kweBlackwater muchirongwa ichi pamberi pehurongwa. Times report. Schakowsky akarambawo kutaura nezvekuti Blackwater yakauya pamusangano waChikumi nemukuru weCIA Leon Panetta, kwaakapinda. Muchidimbu ichi chakaita kuti kuferefetwa kwekuti Mutevedzeri weMutungamiri Dick Cheney akaraira CIA kuvanza chirongwa chekuuraya kubva kuCongress.
"Zvatinoziva izvozvi, kana ichi chiri chokwadi, ndechekuti Blackwater yaive chikamu chepamusoro-soro, denderedzwa remukati rekuita zano nekuita hunyanzvi mukati mehutongi hweBush," Schakowsky akaudza. The Nation. "Erik Prince akashanda padanho repamusoro uye rakavandika rehurumende. Zviri pachena kuti Prince aivimbwa kupfuura US Congress nekuti Mutevedzeri weMutungamiri Cheney akaita sarudzo yekusapfupikisa Congress. Izvi zvinoratidza kuti pakanga pasina nzvimbo zvachose pakati peBush administration Blackwater."
As The Nation yakashuma, Blackwater inoramba ichishanda pa
Basa reBlackwater reCIA raive mhedzisiro yemisangano mumashure memusi wa9/11 pakati paPrince naAlvin "Buzzy" Krongard, ipapo-mukuru-mukuru weCIA, murume wechitatu wesangano. Krongard naPrince, sekureva kweaimbove mukuru weBlackwater akabvunzurudzwa na The Nation,"vaive vakanaka shamwari."
Mubvunzurudzo ya2006 yebhuku rangu, Mvura yakasviba: Kukwira Kwenyika Inesimba Kwazvo Mercenary Mauto, Krongard akati kambani iyi yakapihwa basa kuti ipe kuchengetedzwa kweCIA mukati
Hukama pakati paKrongard naPrince sezviri pachena hwakava neshungu mushure mekunge kondirakiti yasainwa. Mumwe aimbove mukuru weBlackwater akati muna 2006, "Krongard akaburuka akashanyira Blackwater [pamuzinda wekambani mu.
Hukama pakati peBlackwater neCIA hwakakurumidza kubuda. Pasina chinguva Prince akabva apinda
Prince akazoedza kujoina CIA asi akarambwa apo bvunzo yake yepolygraph yakadzoka isingaite. Zvakadaro, akaramba aine hukama hwepedyo nesangano. Anonzi akapihwa "bheji regirini" raimubvumidza kupinda kune dzakawanda CIA zviteshi. "Ari ikoko [kumuzinda weCIA] nguva dzose, pamwe kamwe chete pamwedzi kana zvakadaro," akadaro CIA bhuku. Harper's mutori wenhau Ken Silverstein muna 2006. "Anosangana nevanhu vakuru, kunyanya mu [directorate of operations]."
Prince aizoenderera mberi nekuhaya vakuru vakuru veCIA veBush-era kuti vashande kuBlackwater. Muna Chikunguru 2007 Buzzy Krongard akabatana nebhodhi rekambani; Prince akamupa $3,500 yerukudzo pamusangano wega wega waipinda pamwe chete nemari yakabhadharwa. "Ruzivo rwako uye njere zvingave zvakanaka kubatsira timu yedu kuona kwatiri uye kwatiri kuenda," Prince akanyora mutsamba kuna Krongard.
Panguva iyoyo, mukoma wake, Howard "Cookie" Krongard, aive State Department inspector general aitarisira basa reBlackwater kuDhipatimendi reHurumende. MunaGunyana 2007 mumiriri weCalifornia Democratic, Henry Waxman, akapomera Cookie Krongard mhosva yekukanganisa kuferefetwa kweDhipatimendi reJustice muBlackwater pamusoro pemhosva yaipomerwa kambani iyi kupinza zvombo zvisiri pamutemo.
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PRINCE AKAHAYA vamwe vaimbove vakuru veCIA kuti vafambise zvaisvika kuCIA yake yega. Vainyanya kuzivikanwa pakati pavo ndiJ. Cofer Black, aiita mabasa eCIA ekurwisa hugandanga uye achitungamira kuvhima kwaOsama bin Laden apo Blackwater yakatanga kupihwa basa neCIA muna 2002. Mutema akasiya hurumende muna 2005 ndokutora basa kuBlackwater achimhanyisa Prince's. kambani yehungwaru yakazvimirira, Total Intelligence Solutions.
Ndichiri kuCIA, Mutema akamhanyisa chirongwa che "chinoshamisa shanduro" uye akaronga boka reCIA "Jawbreaker" rakatumirwa
Pamberi peCIA Jawbreaker timu yakatumirwa munaGunyana 27, 2001, Black akapa varume vake zvakananga uye macabre mirairo:
Handidi kuti bin Laden nemakororo ake abatwe, ndinoda kuti vafeโฆVanofanira kuurayiwa. Ndinoda kuona mapikicha emisoro yavo pamapiki. Ndinoda kuti musoro wabin Laden udzoserwe mubhokisi rakazadzwa nechando chakaoma. Ndinoda kukwanisa kuratidza musoro wabin Laden kumutungamiri wenyika. Ndakamuvimbisa kuti ndaizozviita.
Sekureva kwemushandi weCIA, Gary Schroen, nhengo yechikwata cheJawbreaker, yaive nguva yekutanga muhupenyu hwake hwemakore makumi matatu kurairwa kuuraya mhandu pane kuedza kutora.
MunaGunyana 2002, mwedzi mishanu mushure mechibvumirano chekutanga cheBlackwater neCIA muAfghanistan, Mutema akapupurira kuCongress nezve "shanduko yekushanda" yakashandiswa mu "hondo yehugandanga." "Paive nepamberi pa9/11, uye pakanga paine mushure me9/11," Black akadaro. "Mushure me9/11 magirovhosi anobva."
Dema akatsanangura "zvisina miganhu, zvehasha, zvisingadzoreki, kutsvaga kwepasirese chero gandanga rinotityisidzira," achiti "ndiyo chete nzira yekuenda uye ndiyo yakakosha." Mutema aizozvitutumadza, muna 2004, kuti "inopfuura makumi manomwe muzana" yehutungamiriri hweAl-Qaeda yakanga yasungwa, kusungwa kana kuurayiwa, uye kuti "vanopfuura zviuru zvitatu nemazana mana evashandi vavo nevatsigiri vakasungwawo uye vakaburitswa kunze kwechiito." The Times inoshuma kuti chirongwa chekuuraya cheBlackwater-CIA "hachina kubudirira kubata kana kuuraya chero vanofungidzirwa magandanga."
Pamusoro pevatema, vatungamiriri veTotal Intelligence vanosanganisira CEO Robert Richer, aimbove mutevedzeri wemukuru weCIA's Directorate of Operations uye wechipiri-chinzvimbo anoona nezvemabasa echihwande. Kubva 1999 kusvika 2004, Richer aive mukuru weCIA's Near East neSouth Asia Division, kwaaiita mabasa ekuvanda muMiddle East neSouth Asia. Sechikamu chebasa rake, aive mubatanidzwa weCIA naMambo weJorodhani Abdullah, mubatsiri akakosha weUS uye mutengi weBlackwater, uye akazivisa George W. Bush nezvekuramba kuri kuramba kweIraqi mumatanho ekutanga.
Total Intelligence's chief operating officer ndiEnrique "Ric" Prado, 24-year CIA veteran uye aimbova mukuru mukuru mukuru muDirectorate of Operations. Akapedza makore anopfuura gumi achishanda muCIA's Counterterrorist Center uye makore gumi neCIA's "paramilitary" Special Operations Group.
Total Intelligence inodzingwa muhofisi iri pauriri hwepfumbamwe hwechivako chiri munzvimbo yeBallston kuArlington, Va. Its Global Fusion Center, yakazara nemaTV mahombe anotepfenyura chiteshi chenhau dzepasi rose uye nhepfenyuro dzemakombuta dzine vashandi vanoongorora pawebhu, " inoshanda siku nesikati mazuva ese egore" uye inoteedzerwa neCIA's counterterrorist centre, yakambomhanyiswa naBlack. Kambani iyi ine vashandi vanosvika makumi matanhatu nevashanu venguva yakazara-vamwe vanofungidzira kuti yava pedyo nezana. "Total Intel inounzaโฆhunyanzvi hwagara huchikudzwa nevashandi veCIA vakananga kuimba yebhodhi," Black akadaro pakatanga kambani.
Mumiriri Schakowsky anoti House Intelligence Committee iri kuferefeta chirongwa cheCIA chekuuraya uye ichaferefeta zvinonzi zvine chekuita neBlackwater. "Memos yemutungamiri wenyika (inowanzonzi 'zvakawanikwa') inobvumidza kuita kwechivande senge zviitiko zvinouraya zveCIA neBlackwater hazvisati zvabuda," anodaro Ray McGovern, muongorori weCIA wemakore makumi maviri nemanomwe akamboshanda senyika yaGeorge HW Bush. security briefer. "Vachaita, nekufamba kwenguva, kana masosi ane ruzivo akaramba achiisa Bumbiro reMitemo uye ushingi pamusoro pemhiko dzepachivande."
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THE NGUVA DZAKAOMA Chirevo chinouya apo Muchinda nehumambo hwake hweBlackwater vakatarisana netarisiro inogona kuputika yekutongwa kwevanhu pamusoro pekuurayiwa kwevanhu vekuIraq. Gweta Susan Burke neCentre for Constitutional Rights (CCR), avo vari kumhanโarira Prince nemakambani ake vakamirira vanhu vekuIraqi, vakapomera Prince kuti โakafanana nemukuru wemafia anoona nezvemabasa emazuva ese. mhosva dzakaparwa pakuraira kwake uye nekurayira kwake."
Kana nyaya yacho ikaenderera mberi, maitiro ekutsvaga anogona kudzima chivharo kubva kune zvimwe zvakavanzika zvakavanzika zveakasimba kuchengetedza kontrakta uye muridzi wayo akavanzika. Burke neCCR vari kumhan'ara Prince nemakambani ake zvakananga kwete vashandi vake nekuti vanoti Prince "ndiye muridzi uye anotonga vese Vanopomerwa."
Burke anotiwo Prince akaita "kutyora mutemo weRacketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act, mutemo wemubatanidzwa unobvumidza mapato akazvimirira kutsvaga chirango kubva kumabhizinesi anokuvadza zvinhu zvavo." Pakati pezvinopomerwa imhosva dzehondo, kuuraya kwakawedzerwa uye kurohwa uye bhatiri reIraqis.
Kubva nyaya yekutanga yakamhan'arwa nevanhu vekuIraq vachipokana naPrince neBlackwater pamusoro pekuurayiwa kwevaIraqi gumi nevanomwe paNisour Square yeBaghdad musi waGunyana 17, 16, magweta ane simba rekambani akarwa zvakasimba kuti izvo nedzimwe nyaya ina dzibviswe. Ikozvino, vakatarisana nekutongwa kwakakosha kwaNyamavhuvhu 2007 mudare remubatanidzwa muVirginia, vari kuunza gakava idzva: pachinzvimbo chekuti Prince naBlackwater vamire kutongwa, hurumende yeUS inofanirwa kuve mumhan'ari.
Muchikumbiro chakasvitswa Nyamavhuvhu 12, magweta eBlackwater akakumbira Mutongi wemubatanidzwa TS Ellis III kuti araire "kuti United States 'itsive semupomeri webato," pachinzvimbo cheVadzivisi vese varipo. Muchikumbiro chake, Gweta reBlackwater, Peter White wekambani yePowerhouse, Mayer Brown, akapokana kuti kambani iyi yaishandira Dhipatimendi reHurumende muIraq uye nekudaro yaive pabasa repamutemo pakaitika kuuraya nekukuvadzwa kwevaIraq. White anotaura nezve 1988 Westfall Act, iyo inorambidza matare evashandi vehurumende nezvavakaita vakamiririra hurumende uye anoti hurumende inotora mhosva kune chero mhosva kune vashandi.
Federal tort law inotsanangura "vashandi" muchirevo chechinyorwa ichi se "vanhu vanomiririra sangano remubatanidzwa mune chinzvimbo chepamutemo, kwenguva pfupi kana zvachose mubasa reUnited States, vangave nemubhadharo kana pasina." Icho chokwadi chekuti vanopomerwa "masangano emakambani" muchiitiko ichi, White anoti, "hachishandure mhedziso iyoyo." Muchirongwa ichi, magweta eBlackwater anoti kambani iyi, iyo ichangobva kuzvitumidza zita rekuti Xe Services, yava kuita bhizimusi nehurumende pasi pezita rekuti US Training Center (USTC).
"Pfungwa yekuti hurumende yeUnited States inofanirwa kubvuma mhosva yekuponda zvisina mhosva kwevaIraqi 17 vasina mhosva neBlackwater mercenaries, voiisa kumusana kwevateresi, ndeye mubatanidzwa animism," anodaro Ralph Nader, uyo akapedza basa rake rose. kurwisa hunhu hwemakambani. "Kana Blackwater ichida kubatwa semunhu, saka shanduko yazvino, USTC, inofanirwa kumhan'arwa, kupihwa mhosva uye kupihwa mutongo wakaenzana wekurangwa kwekambani nekukanzura charter uye kumisa mashandiro emakambani."
Mutemo weWestfall wakadzikwa muna 1988 sechigadziriso cheFederal Torts Claim Act "kudzivirira vashandi vehurumende kubva pamhosva yavo yemutemo wakajairwa wakaitwa mukati mechikamu chebasa ravo, vachipa vanhu vakakuvadzwa nemutemo wakajairwa mhosva dzevashandi mushonga wakakodzera kurwisa United States." Mushure meWestfall, hurumende yakatora mutoro wepamutemo wemasutu akamhan'arwa nevashandi vehurumende uye yakagadzirisa chete masutu evakabatwa vachipokana nehurumende.
Blackwater yakakumbira Gweta Guru Eric Holder kuti apindire munyaya iyi uye atore mhosva yezvaari kupomerwa Blackwater. Kana izvi zvikaitika, nyanzvi dzezvemitemo dzinodaro, nyaya yacho inenge yafira mumvura.
"Zviripachena kuti kana vakakunda chikumbiro ichi uye hurumende ikatsiviwa, sezvo kukanganisa kwakaitika kune imwe nyika, hurumende haina kudzivirirwa uye nyaya yacho icharaswa," anodaro Alan Morrison, aimbove muchuchisi wemubatanidzwa. dean yekufarira veruzhinji paGeorge Washington Law School. "Uku kuyedza [naBlackwater naPrince] kuti vazvisunungure ...
Anowedzera kuti: "Kambani hombe, inoita purofiti iri kutsvaga kushandisa mutemo uyu, wakagadzirirwa kuchengetedza vashandi vehurumende, kuzvidzivirira kubva kune chero mhosva yerufu nekukuvara" kwevaIraqis.
"Kana Blackwater inosarudza kupindira pakati uye kuita purofiti kubva kune ava vashandi vari muhukama nehurumende, pfungwa yekuti Blackwater pachayo, mubatanidzwa, inogona kunge iri mushandi haina kujairika kutaura zvishoma," anodaro Morrison. "Sei Congress ichida, kuita, kuendesa chikwereti kubva kukambani huru, ine zvitsitsinho zvakanaka seBlackwater kuenda kuUnited States vateresi nekuda kwemaitiro akadai? Zvavanenge vachitaura [kana dudziro yeBlackwater yeWestfall Act yakagamuchirwa] vangadai vakada kutora mhosva kune izvo zvavakanga vasina mhosva pakutanga."
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Bazi reJustice harisati raburitsa danho panyaya iyi. "Sezvineiwo, hapana chatinogona kupa maererano nekubvunza kwako panguva ino," mumwe mukuru akanyora mue-mail.
Pakutanga, mukupindura mibvunzo kubva The Nation, mutauriri weDhipatimendi reJustice akatumira memo yakamhan'arwa nedhipatimendi pakutanga kwegore rino mune imwe nyaya yakafanana neBlackwater mudare remubatanidzwa muFlorida, umo dhipatimendi rakaramba kuedza kwekambani kuita kuti hurumende iite basa. "Chikumbiro chevanopomerwa cheWestfall Act certification chinofanira kurambwa nekuti vanhu chaivo chete ndivo vanogona kunzi 'vashandi vehurumende," Assistant Attorney General Tony West akanyora musi wa8 Chikumi mugwaro remapeji makumi matatu nemashanu richipokana nechikumbiro cheBlackwater.
Nyanzvi dzakawanda dzemutemo dzakabvunzurudzwa na The Nation vakati havakwanise kufanoona Dhipatimendi reJustice richipindira rakamiririra Blackwater. Asi mutemo weWestfall Act wakashandiswa nemagweta makuru muhurumende dzeBush neVaObama kuedza kuregerera vakuru veBush pamhosva yavanoti vakaita mukupara mhosva uye kuita kuti hurumende ive nemhosva.
Musi waChikumi 26 hofisi yeHolder yakapindira mumhaka yakamhan'arwa neCCR ichipokana neMunyori weDziviriro Donald Rumsfeld nevamwe vakuru vemauto makumi maviri nevatatu "nekuda kwebasa ravo mukuvharirwa zvisiri pamutemo, kutambudzwa, mamiriro ehutsinye uye kufa kwekupedzisira" kwevasungwa vaviri veGuantรกnamo.
Achitaura nezvemutemo weWestfall Act, Tony West akanyora kuti "mhando yezviitiko zvaipomerwa kune mumwe munhu ari kupomerwa 'zvaionekwa' uye "zvaive zvakananga" zvebasa ravo rekuchengetedza nekuunganidza njere kubva kune vanofungidzirwa kuti vavengi varwi."
Mukudzivirira chinzvimbo chehurumende, West yakataura mutemo wenyaya waiti "kupondwa kwerudzi, kurwadziswa, kumanikidzwa kutamiswa, uye hutsinye, hutsinye, uye kuitirwa zvinonyadzisa nemunhu mumwe nemumwe aipomerwa basa neDhipatimendi reDziviriro neDhipatimendi reHurumende aive mukati mechikamu chebasa" uye nyaya dzakafanana dzinopembedza CIA. kurwadziswa sechikamu chebasa repamutemo.
"Zviri kureva kuti kurwadzisa ibasa rezuva rimwe chete kana zvasvika pakusunga vanhu muchiuto," anodaro Shane Kadidal, anotungamira chirongwa cheGuantรกnamo kuCCR. Pakadaro nyaya yanga isiri yekuti Rumsfeld nevamwe vaive โvashandiโ here asi kuti vaiita zvebasa here. Nharo yeBlackwater inotengesa zvakanyanya, anodaro Morrison. "Inobata mvura here?" anobvunza. "Inobata Blackwater."
Zvichakadaro, mune imwewo nyaya, magweta aPrince apindura kunyaya dzekuputika dzakaitwa kuna Prince nevaviri vaimbova vashandi. Muzvinyorwa zvakapikiswa zvakaunzwa nemagweta anomiririra maIraqi achimhan'ara Blackwater, vaviri ava vaiti Prince anogona kunge akaponda kana kufambisa kupondwa kwevanhu vaishandira pamwe nevakuru vehurumende vachiferefeta kambani iyi.
Mumwe wevaimbova vashandi vanoti Prince "anozviona semuKristu ane basa rekubvisa maMuslim uye kutenda kwechiIslam kubva pasirese," uye kuti makambani ePrince "akakurudzira uye akapa mubairo kuparadzwa kwehupenyu hweIraq." Vanopomerawo kuti Prince aiwana purofiti nekutengesa zvombo zvisiri pamutemo.
Muchikumbiro chakasvitswa muna Nyamavhuvhu 10, magweta aPrince akakumbira mutongi Ellis kuti abvise murekodhi mhiko dzevaive vashandi vaviri ava, achiti "zvichemo zvavari nazvo hazvibvumirwe nezvikonzero zvakawanda, zvinosanganisira kushaikwa kwehwaro, runyerekupe, kushaya basa uye kusarura kusina kunaka." Vanopomera magweta ari kumhanโarira Blackwater
shandisa nyaya iyi se "megaphone" kuwedzera kugona kwavo kupesvedzera maonero eruzhinji maererano nekushandiswa kwevakontrakta munzvimbo dzehondo dzehondo, Hondo yeIraq, uye kunyanya nezvaErik Prince nevamwe vanopomerwa. Mashoko asina humbowo akaitwa mumatare edzimhosva anove "ane nhau" nekuda kwekuti anobuda mumagwaro aya.
Magweta anoratidza kupomerwa uku se "zvinonyadzisa, zvisina musoro, zvisingabvumirwe, uye zvine rusaruro." Sezvineiwo, hapana panotaurwa nemagweta aPrince kuti mashoko aya haasi echokwadi.
Sezvo nyaya dziri kupomerwa Prince dzichienderera mberi, kambani inoenderera mberi ichiita bhizinesi rakasimba nehurumende yemubatanidzwa, kunyanya muAfghanistan. Schakowsky akadaidzira kuti aongororwe zvibvumirano zvese zvemakambani izvozvi, uye akadana Secretary of State Hillary Clinton uye Secretary of Defense Robert Gates kuti vamire kupa kambani makondirakiti.
"Obama manejimendi anofanirwa kudzima nekumisa [yeBlackwater] iripo uye yakamirira zvibvumirano zvehurumende," anodaro Nader. "Zvikasadaro mhosva dzemakambani, ropafadzo uye zvidziviriro zvinoramba zvichibhadhara uye kubhadhara uye kubhadhara."
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