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Charlie Hebdo: Al Qaeda Threatens More Attacks

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 10 Januari 2015 | 14.59

Charlie Hebdo: Al Qaeda Threatens More Attacks

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By Ian Woods, Senior Correspondent, in Dammartin-en-Goele

Al Qaeda has threatened France with more terror attacks after 17 people were killed at Charlie Hebdo's offices and at a Jewish supermarket.

The warning came as President Francois Hollande admitted the threats "weren't over" and police hunting a female suspect suggested there could be a larger terrorist cell planning further atrocities.  

A sharia official from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Harith al Nadhari, said in a video: "It is better for you to stop your aggression against the Muslims, so perhaps you will live safely.

"If you refuse but to wage war, then wait for the glad tiding." 

AQAP has claimed it directed brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi in the attack on Charlie Hebdo "as revenge for the honour" of the Prophet Mohammed.

The United States has also warned Americans to beware "terrorist actions and violence" all over the world following the deaths in Paris.

The gunman killed by police at a kosher supermarket in Paris has told how he "co-ordinated" with the Charlie Hebdo killers and was a member of the Islamic State (IS) group.

Amedy Coulibaly's call to France's BFMTV station emerged after gunfire and explosions marked the violent conclusion to two hostage-takings 30 miles (48km) apart.

Just minutes separated the series of blasts at the Paris store and those that destroyed a warehouse in Dammartin-en-Goele, where the Kouachi brothers were holed up.

Police stormed both buildings almost simultaneously, killing both brothers, while at least four hostages and the jihadist gunman died at the Paris grocery store.

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    Commandos stormed the kosher supermarket where a gunman had taken at least six people hostage. Pic: Vantage News

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Charlie Hebdo: Al Qaeda Threatens More Attacks

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By Ian Woods, Senior Correspondent, in Dammartin-en-Goele

Al Qaeda has threatened France with more terror attacks after 17 people were killed at Charlie Hebdo's offices and at a Jewish supermarket.

The warning came as President Francois Hollande admitted the threats "weren't over" and police hunting a female suspect suggested there could be a larger terrorist cell planning further atrocities.  

A sharia official from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Harith al Nadhari, said in a video: "It is better for you to stop your aggression against the Muslims, so perhaps you will live safely.

"If you refuse but to wage war, then wait for the glad tiding." 

AQAP has claimed it directed brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi in the attack on Charlie Hebdo "as revenge for the honour" of the Prophet Mohammed.

The United States has also warned Americans to beware "terrorist actions and violence" all over the world following the deaths in Paris.

The gunman killed by police at a kosher supermarket in Paris has told how he "co-ordinated" with the Charlie Hebdo killers and was a member of the Islamic State (IS) group.

Amedy Coulibaly's call to France's BFMTV station emerged after gunfire and explosions marked the violent conclusion to two hostage-takings 30 miles (48km) apart.

Just minutes separated the series of blasts at the Paris store and those that destroyed a warehouse in Dammartin-en-Goele, where the Kouachi brothers were holed up.

Police stormed both buildings almost simultaneously, killing both brothers, while at least four hostages and the jihadist gunman died at the Paris grocery store.

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    Commandos stormed the kosher supermarket where a gunman had taken at least six people hostage. Pic: Vantage News

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The Paris Terrorists And Their Al Qaeda Links

The Paris Terrorists And Their Al Qaeda Links

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Multiple armed attacks in the capital city. Hostages taken. Intellectuals slaughtered. "Zionist" institutions targeted. Security forces stretched - and everywhere fear.

Said Kouachi, 34, was known to have travelled to the Yemen in 2011 and to have met Anwar al Awlaki who, at the time, was the most influential al Qaeda leader in the world - and that includes Osama bin Laden.

He was also known to have got weapons training there.

Kouachi was part of a group in Paris known as the Buttes Chaumont - an alliance of violent Islamic radicals who recruited volunteers to fight the American-led operation in Iraq which later plotted to try to break an Algerian terrorist out of a French prison, and has now paralysed the French authorities with hostage-taking operations in two locations.

Awlaki was killed in an American drone strike in September 2011. One of the Kouachi brothers told the victim of one of their car-jackings that their terror campaign was revenge for the killing of Awlaki.

The American-born, Yemen-based al Qaeda leader was the franchise's propaganda chief.

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  1. Gallery: Faces Of Paris Suspects And Victims

    Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, is a suspect in the murder of a Paris policewoman on Thursday. She is on the run after her husband Amedy Coulibaly was killed when armed officers brought his kosher supermarket siege to a violent end

Her husband Amedy Coulibaly, 32

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Cherif Kouachi, 32, (pictured) and Said Kouachi, 34, carried out the massacre at magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday

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The brothers took a hostage and were killed when police stormed the building where they were holed up in Dammartin-en-Goele, northwest of Paris. They are orphans who grew up in Rennes before moving to a a Paris council estate. Pictured here is Said Kouachi

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Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier, 47, had received death threats in the past and was living under police protection. Charbonnier and his nine colleagues, along with the two policemen killed at Charlie Hebdo

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The Paris Terrorists And Their Al Qaeda Links

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Multiple armed attacks in the capital city. Hostages taken. Intellectuals slaughtered. "Zionist" institutions targeted. Security forces stretched - and everywhere fear.

Said Kouachi, 34, was known to have travelled to the Yemen in 2011 and to have met Anwar al Awlaki who, at the time, was the most influential al Qaeda leader in the world - and that includes Osama bin Laden.

He was also known to have got weapons training there.

Kouachi was part of a group in Paris known as the Buttes Chaumont - an alliance of violent Islamic radicals who recruited volunteers to fight the American-led operation in Iraq which later plotted to try to break an Algerian terrorist out of a French prison, and has now paralysed the French authorities with hostage-taking operations in two locations.

Awlaki was killed in an American drone strike in September 2011. One of the Kouachi brothers told the victim of one of their car-jackings that their terror campaign was revenge for the killing of Awlaki.

The American-born, Yemen-based al Qaeda leader was the franchise's propaganda chief.

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  1. Gallery: Faces Of Paris Suspects And Victims

    Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, is a suspect in the murder of a Paris policewoman on Thursday. She is on the run after her husband Amedy Coulibaly was killed when armed officers brought his kosher supermarket siege to a violent end

Her husband Amedy Coulibaly, 32

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Cherif Kouachi, 32, (pictured) and Said Kouachi, 34, carried out the massacre at magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday

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The brothers took a hostage and were killed when police stormed the building where they were holed up in Dammartin-en-Goele, northwest of Paris. They are orphans who grew up in Rennes before moving to a a Paris council estate. Pictured here is Said Kouachi

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Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier, 47, had received death threats in the past and was living under police protection. Charbonnier and his nine colleagues, along with the two policemen killed at Charlie Hebdo

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Hayat Boumeddiene Hunted As More Attacks Feared

Police are hunting for the wife of one of the three gunmen who brought three days of terror to France, saying she may be "armed and dangerous".

Hayat Boumeddiene, a suspect in the murder of a Paris policewoman on Thursday, is on the run after her husband Amedy Coulibaly was killed when armed officers brought his kosher supermarket siege to a violent end.

The 26-year-old could hold the key to the ongoing terror investigation, as police admit they may be dealing with a larger extremist cell and authorities brace for more attacks.

Details are emerging of the young woman of Algerian descent and the links between Coulibaly, 32, and the Kouachi brothers, who were killed two days after murdering 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo

Boumeddiene reportedly started wearing a burka in May 2009 after meeting Coulibaly and quit her job as a cashier before marrying him in a religious ceremony later that year.

According to French judicial documents, the couple travelled with Cherif Kouachi and his wife in 2010 to central France to visit radical Islamist Djamel Beghal, who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for terror offences.

The pair posed for photos during the visit, taking selfies and a snap of Boumeddiene pointing a crossbow at the camera.

Interviewed that year by counter-terrorism officers over Coulibaly's involvement in an attempt to free Paris bomber Smain Ait Ali Belkacem from jail, she was open about her fanatical views.

According to Le Nouvel Observateur, she refused to condemn al Qaeda attacks, preferring to criticise America's military interventions around the world and the Western media.

The links between the couple and the Kouachis apparently thrived, with Paris prosecutor Francois Molins revealing Boumeddiene and the wife of one of the brothers exchanged more than 500 phone calls in 2014.

A police search of Coulibaly's residence in 2010 turned up a crossbow, 240 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, films and photos of him during a trip to Malaysia, and letters seeking false official documents.

In a police interview that same year, Coulibaly identified Cherif Kouachi as a friend he had met in prison and said they saw each other frequently, according to a transcript of the interview obtained by the Journal du Dimanche newspaper.

According to the newspaper, he told the police that people he met in prison used the nickname "Dolly" for him.

He was employed as a temp worker at a Coca-Cola factory and reportedly met then-President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2009.

"I know a lot of criminals because I met heaps of them in detention," he is quoted as telling the police.

Michel Thooris, secretary-general of France's police union, said he did not believe the men behind the Paris attacks were "three people isolated in their little world."

"This could very well be a little cell," he said.

"There are probably more than three people," he added, given that Cherif Kouachi and Coulibaly had had contacts with other jihadist groups in the past.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, speaking in a TV interview late on Friday, also indicated authorities are bracing for the possibility of new attacks.

"We are facing a major challenge" and "very determined individuals," he said.

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Day Of Mourning For Terror Attack Victims

Written By Unknown on Kamis, 08 Januari 2015 | 14.59

Day Of Mourning For Terror Attack Victims

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A minute's silence will be held across France to remember the victims of the gun attack at the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

It comes after vigils were held in cities across the globe to mourn the victims of the attack in Paris and show support for freedom of speech.

President Francois Hollande has ordered flags to fly at half-mast for three days. 

After the minute of silence at midday, the bells of Paris' Notre Dame cathedral will sound out across the city.

"Nothing can divide us, nothing should separate us," Mr Hollande said.

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    Vigils have been held across the world in support of the victims of the Paris terror attack

People lit candles at the Place de la Republique in Paris

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Others held up pens and placards reading "I am Charlie"

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Police officers also gathered in the French eastern city of Strasbourg to pay their respects

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In London, around 2,000 people joined a silent vigil in Trafalgar Square

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Day Of Mourning For Terror Attack Victims

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A minute's silence will be held across France to remember the victims of the gun attack at the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

It comes after vigils were held in cities across the globe to mourn the victims of the attack in Paris and show support for freedom of speech.

President Francois Hollande has ordered flags to fly at half-mast for three days. 

After the minute of silence at midday, the bells of Paris' Notre Dame cathedral will sound out across the city.

"Nothing can divide us, nothing should separate us," Mr Hollande said.

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    Vigils have been held across the world in support of the victims of the Paris terror attack

People lit candles at the Place de la Republique in Paris

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Others held up pens and placards reading "I am Charlie"

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Police officers also gathered in the French eastern city of Strasbourg to pay their respects

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In London, around 2,000 people joined a silent vigil in Trafalgar Square

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Paris Policeman Shot In Head As He Pleads For Life

Footage of France's deadliest terror attack for 40 years shows one of the gunmen shoot a policeman in the head at point-blank range.

Three black-clad, heavily-armed men are seen walking from their vehicle near Place de la Bastille in Paris, before a number of shots are fired.

The camera pans to the right to show a police officer lying on the pavement before rolling over to face his approaching attackers.

He is seen raising his hand, apparently pleading for his life.

According to Le Parisien, the officer was heard in one video clip to say: "Voulez-vous me tuer? (Do you want to kill me?)."

The gunman responded: "C'est bon chef."

One of the two men quickens pace as he reaches the injured officer and, without pausing, shoots him in the head.

In another video shot following the attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's offices, gunshots ring out and onlookers run for cover on a rooftop just yards from the scene.

The two gunmen are seen below opening fire.

As some on the rooftop run for cover, panicked voices are heard urging others to "get down".

"Did you see that?" a voice can be heard asking the person filming the scene.

More shots are fired before a witness on the rooftop tells another to "budge up".

The gunshots stop and the men are seen calmly returning to their black Citroen hatchback.

One of them picks up a shoe that had fallen out of the car and they drive off slowly.

Witness Benoit Bringer told French TV channel iTELE: "About a half an hour ago two black-hooded men entered the building with Kalashnikovs (assault rifles).

"A few minutes later we heard lots of shots."

One witness, who declined to give his name, described the attack as like "a movie".

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    Armed gunmen face police officers near the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris

An attack on the offices of the newspaper left twelve dead, including two police officers, according to sources close to the investigation

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Paris Terror Attack: Two Brothers On The Run

By Ian Woods, Senior Correspondent, In Paris

A massive manhunt is under way for two suspects in the Paris terror attack on a French satirical magazine.

Images have been released of brothers Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, both in their early 30s, who are suspected of being part of the attack that left 12 people dead.

Officials have said the French nationals are linked to a Yemeni terror network.

The youngest of the suspects in the shooting has handed himself in to police after he was named on social media as Hamyd Mourad, 18.

Sky sources say the man, who has been arrested, is the brother-in-law of the suspects at large.

On Wednesday night heavily armoured French police raided an apartment in the city of Reims, east of Paris, as they continued a massive manhunt to find the killers.

French officials say seven people have been detained overnight. There was a shooting in southern Paris overnight, but a police source told Reuters news agency no link with the magazine attack has been confirmed.

Thousands of officers have reportedly been deployed in the hunt for the men behind the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo and 

It has previously been targeted over its portrayal of the Prophet Mohammed.

In Wednesday's attack, masked gunmen stormed the offices and called out their victims by name before opening fire during a morning editorial meeting.

They were armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and a rocket-propelled grenade.

They were let inside the Charlie Hebdo building by a female employee who was threatened at gunpoint along with her daughter and forced to punch in a security code to allow them inside.

The editor and a cartoonist for the newspaper, who went by the pen names Charb and Cabu, were among those killed.

Radio France chief executive Mathieu Gilet announced that contributor Bernard Maris was also killed.

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    Bernard Maris was a journalist and shareholder in Charlie Hebdo

Bernard Velhav was a contributer to the magazine. Pic: Georges Seguin

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One Killed In Texas Army Hospital Shooting

Written By Unknown on Rabu, 07 Januari 2015 | 14.59

A gunman has opened fire at a veterans' medical centre at El Paso in Texas, killing one person.

The Veterans' Affairs clinic and the William Beaumont Army Medical Centre were locked down when a gunman was reported on the grounds at 3.10pm local time.

Law enforcement authorities gathered at the scene and a search was carried out for the gunman. 

Television footage showed several police cars and emergency vehicles gathered at the medical centres, and a helicopter overhead.

Fort Bliss Major General Stephen M. Twitty confirmed that two people died in the incident, including the gunman.

"The alleged shooter is dead, and we have one casualty. That casualty is deceased," he said.

"All other VA patients and staff are safe... everything is under control and there is no immediate threat to Fort Bliss or the local community."

No further information has been released about the victim or the alleged shooter, or about how they died.

The FBI is leading an investigation into the incident.

The facility treats soldiers returning from conflict zones, including those with Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD).

The veterans' clinic came under scrutiny following a federal audit last year.

The audit found veterans trying to see a doctor for the first time faced some of the longest waiting times in the US. 


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AirAsia Crash: Missing Plane's Tail Discovered

AirAsia Crash: Missing Plane's Tail Discovered

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The tail of the missing AirAsia plane has been found underwater in the Java Sea, according to Indonesian officials.

The find is vital because the cockpit voice and flight data recorders, or black boxes, are located in the aircraft's tail, and will be crucial to investigators trying to establish why the plane crashed.

"We have successfully obtained part of the plane that has been our target," search and rescue agency chief Bambang Soelistyo said.

"The tail portion has been confirmed found."

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  1. Gallery: The Search For The Missing AirAsia Plane

    Relatives at Surabaya airport weep as they receive news that bodies have been found in the hunt for the missing AirAsia plane

There were 162 passengers on board, including one British man, Chi Man Choi, and his two-year-old daughter

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Officials carry a family member of one of the passengers after she collapsed at Surabaya airport

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The Indonesian air force shows objects retrieved from the sea

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The search had included 30 ships and 21 aircraft from South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and Indonesia

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AirAsia Crash: Missing Plane's Tail Discovered

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The tail of the missing AirAsia plane has been found underwater in the Java Sea, according to Indonesian officials.

The find is vital because the cockpit voice and flight data recorders, or black boxes, are located in the aircraft's tail, and will be crucial to investigators trying to establish why the plane crashed.

"We have successfully obtained part of the plane that has been our target," search and rescue agency chief Bambang Soelistyo said.

"The tail portion has been confirmed found."

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  1. Gallery: The Search For The Missing AirAsia Plane

    Relatives at Surabaya airport weep as they receive news that bodies have been found in the hunt for the missing AirAsia plane

There were 162 passengers on board, including one British man, Chi Man Choi, and his two-year-old daughter

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Officials carry a family member of one of the passengers after she collapsed at Surabaya airport

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The Indonesian air force shows objects retrieved from the sea

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The search had included 30 ships and 21 aircraft from South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia and Indonesia

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Deadly Suicide Bombing At Yemen Police Academy

At least 30 people have been killed by a suicide bomber who detonated a minibus packed with explosives outside a police college in Yemen, say officials.

Dozens were also wounded in the blast, which was heard across the capital Sanaa and sent a large plume of smoke into the sky.

The explosion happened as cadets gathered outside the police college.

At the scene, dead and wounded lay on the pavement, as ambulances ferried casualties away.

Eyewitness Jamil al-Khaleedi said: "What happened is we were all gathering and ...(the bomber) exploded right next to all of the police college classmates.

"It went off among all of them, and they flew through the air."

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

Yemen's al Qaeda branch, targeted in frequent US drone strikes in the country, has carried out similar attacks in the past.

Security in Yemen has declined since a 2011 uprising, which led to a change in government and dissension within the army.

On 1 January, a suicide bomber killed 26 people in an attack carried out in the central Yemeni city of Ibb.

More follows...


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Prince To Challenge Blatter For FIFA Presidency

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 06 Januari 2015 | 15.00

FIFA's vice president will stand against Sepp Blatter in the organisation's elections later this year, insisting it is "time for change".

As well as taking on the current president of football's world governing body, Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan will stand against Frenchman Jerome Champagne for the top job in May.

"I am seeking the presidency of FIFA because I believe it is time to shift the focus away from administrative controversy and back to sport," he said in a statement.

"This was not an easy decision. It came after careful consideration and many discussions with respected FIFA colleagues over the last few months.

"The message I heard, over and over, was that it is time for a change.

"The world's game deserves a world-class governing body - an International Federation that is a service organisation and a model of ethics, transparency and good governance."

Mr Blatter has held his position as FIFA president since 1998.

He will be running for a fifth term at the 65th FIFA congress in Zurich on 29 May despite the organisation being engulfed by controversy in recent months over the decision to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar.

Prince Ali has served as president of the Jordan Football Association since 1999 and a year later founded the West Asian Football Federation which consists of 13 different nations.

Mr Champagne is a former FIFA deputy secretary general.


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