An Update On ISIS Activities

November 4, 2015

November 4, 2015

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REPORTS FROM IRAQ

 

Among today’s major developments:

Iraqi forces advance further around Ramadi.

Suspicions are raised in Ahmed Chalabi’s death.

Democratic Syria Forces capture more areas from Daesh; Canadian fighting with them killed.

 

ANBAR

A video depicting the difficult situation faced by displaced families in the camps after heavy rains. [Sumaria]

 

The IAA commander said IAA conducted 375 sorties over Anbar in the last two weeks, killing 300 Daesh members and destroying 60 vehicles. [Sumaria]

 

Ramadi

A source in the Golden Division says Iraqi forces conducted a large military campaign near Albu Farraj north of Ramadi, and another campaign at the same time in Hay Al-Tameem south of Ramadi, killing 40 Daesh members. [Mada]

 

A Joint Operations Command (JOC) source says Iraqi forces captured the Jaraishi Bridge north of Ramadi and cut off Daesh supply lines to the city. [Mada]

The chairman of the Khaldiya District Council says Iraqi forces completely cleared the Jaraishi area, 17 km (10.5 miles) north of Ramadi, killing many Daesh members, and are advancing toward the northern entrance of Ramadi. [Mada]

Iraqi forces supported by the IAA killed 21 Daesh members in Jaraishi and Albu Farraj and destroyed seven hideouts and defused 109 IEDs. [IWMC Report]

IWMC says Iraqi forces killed a Daesh Lebanese emir, Talib Jwair, and four of his associates in Jaraishi. [Mada]

 

Iraqi forces destroyed a Daesh hideout and killed three snipers in Albu Aitha. [IWMC Report]

 

Iraqi forces stopped an attack on Habbaniya, killing two Daesh members and destroying two personnel carriers. Two Iraqi policemen were wounded. [IWMC Report]

 

A JOC source says Iraqi anti-terrorism units captured the Warrar Camp, former headquarters of the Iraqi Army Eighth Brigade west of Ramadi, killing or wounding many terrorists. Daesh had used this compound as its area headquarters. [Mada]

An Anti-Terrorism Service commander says Daesh terrorists fled from the Warrar Camp in Ramadi. IAF is targeting them, killing some. [Sumaria]

 

Iraqi forces killed three suicide bombers in the 5 Kilo area west of Ramadi. [IWMC Report]

A video of Iraqi forces in the 5 Kilo area west of Ramadi. [YouTube]

A security source says Coalition planes launched heavy airstrikes targeting Daesh gathering sites in the Street 17 area of downtown Ramadi, killing many of them. [Baghdadia]

 

Daesh says it shelled Iraqi forces with mortars in the Kilo 7 area. [JustPaste]

 

IWMC says Iraqi forces liberated 3 more areas west of Ramadi, including the Palestine Bridge that links the city to the west. [AIN] It says Iraqi forces raised the Iraqi Flag on Palestine Street, across the river from the Anbar Operations Command headquarters. [Ghad] An Anbar GC member says Iraqi forces are only 300 meters away from the former headquarters. [AIN]

 

An Anbar operations command source says Daesh is preventing Ramadi residents from leaving the city or raising white flags, threatening to kill anyone who disobeys. The JOC had asked Ramadi residents to leave the city in anticipation of the attack on the city. The source says Daesh is using Ramadi’s civilians as human shields. [Mada]

A member of Anbar GC said that several families came to Iraqi forces northwest of Ramadi seeking protection and will be relocated to a secure location. [Sumaria]

IWMC says Iraqi troops brought 60 families to the Habbaniya base who had escaped from Ramadi. [Mada]

 

IAA targeted two Daesh gatherings and destroyed two vehicles carrying anti-aircraft machine guns, killing seven Daesh members and wounding eleven in Humaira south of Ramadi. [IWMC Report]

 

IAA killed five terrorists and wounded seven in Tal Mshaihda east of Ramadi. [IWMC Report]

 

The IAF destroyed four Daesh locations and a weapons storehouse in east Hsaiba. [IWMC Report]

IFP troops attacked Daesh fighters in east Hsaiba, liberating two houses. [IWMC Report]

 

A video shows Iraqi Special Forces rocketing Daesh vehicles with Kornet missiles in Tameem, just southwest of Ramadi. [Facebook]

 

A video from inside Ramadi hospital with wounded Daesh fighters. [YouTube] (We couldn’t confirm the date of the video.)

 

Falluja

Anbar Operations Command artillery shelled Daesh in Albu Shijil north of Falluja, killing 20 Daesh members including the emir of Jazeera Khaldiya, and wounding 15 others. [IWMC Report]

 

A local PMF commander says that Iraqi forces destroyed five vehicle bombs attacking Iraqi forces in Qarma. [Mada]

 

Baghdad Operation Command forces killed six militants and destroyed a vehicle mounted with a machine gun, and defused 12 IEDs in Qarma. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

An Iraqi Army 36th Brigade killed two terrorists in Subaihat in Qarma. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

An Iraqi Army unit from the 59th Brigade defused two IEDs in Halabsa, southwest of Falluja across the river. [BOC Facebook Page]

 

A video of PMFs destroying IEDs near Falluja [YouTube]

A video of a close-in battle between Golden Division fighters and Daesh near Falluja [YouTube]

 

Daesh publishes photos of leaflet distribution in Zoba’a and Qarma. [JustPaste] [JustPaste]

 

Hit/Haditha

A JOC source says the IAF launched an airstrike on a Daesh meeting in Hit, killing the Daesh sharia emir of Jazeera Khaldiya, Abu Azzam, and 15 of his associates, and destroying 15 vehicles. [Mada]

 

The commander of the Iraqi Army Seventh Division said more than 70 Daesh members were killed and five vehicle bombs destroyed during operations to liberate Albu Hayat in Baghdadi. He added that Iraqi forces destroyed four main Daesh centers and defused many booby-trapped houses and IEDs. [Baghdadia]

Daesh says its terrorists killed 20 Iraqi soldiers and destroyed 3 Humvees, a bulldozer and a mine destroyer in Albu Hayat. [Dump] Daesh publishes a video of a few of its terrorists walking in Albu Hayat. [A3maq]

 

Daesh publishes photos of the fighting in Baghdadi. [JustPaste]

 

The chairman of Haditha District Council says tens of families (who had traveled by air to Baghdad from Haditha) are waiting at the gate to Baghdad International Airport for transport back to Haditha. [Sumaria]

 

Jazeera Operation Command continued its operations to clear Albu Hayat area and captured a car bomb factory with many IEDs inside; killed two snipers, three suicide bombers, and 11 other terrorists; and destroyed a vehicle and two mortars. In later operations, Iraqi forces destroyed a Daesh hideout in the area, killing three militants and destroyed three vehicle bombs. [IWMC Report]

 

West Anbar

A video of Albu Nimr tribal fighters in west Anbar [YouTube]

 

A Jazeera Operations Command source says 7 Iraqi policemen were killed and 3 wounded in a Daesh attack in the Kilo 160 area near Rutba. [BasNews]

 

SALAHUDDIN

Baiji

Salahuddin Operation Command troops killed three suicide bombers near Baiji. An Iraqi soldier was killed. [IWMC Report]

 

A video of PMFs fighting Daesh in the Makhoul Mountains area [YouTube]

 

A video of Golden Division fighters destroying a vehicle bomb [YouTube]

 

Tikrit

A CoR member from Salahuddin says the former Governor stole US $100,000,000 from the annual projects budget. This was covered up in part by phony projects supposedly carried out in Daesh-controlled areas. [Baghdadia]

 

Iraqi forces stopped a Daesh attack on Saddam’s home village of Al-Awja south of Tikrit from two sides, killing 15 Daesh members and destroying their vehicles. [Baghdadia]

 

Samarra

A security source says the IAA destroyed an armored construction excavator and a truck loaded with explosives in the Sharif Abbas area 15 km (9 miles) northwest of Samarra. [Mada]

 

An IFP source says IFP troops rocketed Daesh near the Strategic Line, destroying 3 hideouts and a vehicle. [Harbi]

 

Daesh publishes a video of the battles near the Thirthar area. [Archive]

 

Elsewhere in Salahuddin

IWMC says the IAA targeted Daesh near Allas oilfield killing several terrorists. The IAA also targeted Daesh in the Al-Ramla area between Salahuddin and Kirkuk, killing 8 terrorists. [Mada]

 

Daesh says it shot down an Iraqi helicopter in the Allas area. [Dump]

 

BAGHDAD

Prime Minister Abadi meets with the Chief of the Sunni Endowment to discuss the displaced persons situation in Iraq and to discuss the religious leaders’ education campaigns to fight the “twisted thinking” of Daesh. [Shafaaq]

DaeshDaily comment. The Sunni Endowment is an independent organization that oversees Sunni mosques and owns extensive properties acquired largely from bequests. It has opened some of its mosques to help deal with the displaced persons problem. The Shia Endowment has done the same.

 

The Governor of Baghdad has opened a residential compound in Abu Ghraib with capacity to hold 10,000 displaced persons. The compound is still under construction but is reportedly 80 percent complete. [Sumaria]

This came after the Governor said he will announce a “radical solution for the displaced families who are living in camps in Baghdad,” which will solve the problem of more than 10,000 displaced persons in Baghdad. [Mada]

A spokesman of Sistani’s office says the government efforts to help the displaced people, especially after the rain, are not sufficient. [Sumaria]

 

The CoR Speaker says the liberation battles will last longer than expected. He also says the end of Daesh depends on political “understandings” between regional powers (Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey) and international powers (the US, the UK and Russia). [Mada]

 

The Iraqi National Security Advisor says corruption is one of the main reasons for the weakness of the security system in Iraq. [Rudaw]

 

President Masoum, PM Abadi and many Iraqi officials attended a funeral ceremony for Ahmed Chalabi in the CoR building. [Xendan] [Buratha]

The rapporteur of the Iraqi CoR says that the body of the late Ahmad Chalabi was not present at his funeral, which was only “symbolic.” Chalabi’s body is still in custody of the forensic authorities because his family has expressed suspicions about the cause of his death. [Mada]

An official source said that the Chalabi family brought two doctors, one from the US and one from the UK, to perform an autopsy to determine the cause of death. [Sumaria]

The chairman of the CoR’s Security and Defense Committee said Chalabi possessed many important files about corruption in Iraq and was in good health before his death. The CoR will await the results of the results of the forensic investigation, he says. [Sumaria]

 

Coalition planes conducted 15 airstrikes altogether, killing many Daesh members and destroying seven hideouts, 17 Daesh locations, two vehicles, unspecified chemical materials, and a rocket launcher. [IWMC Report]

 

Iraq Central Bank denies reports in the Wall Street Journal that the US has stopped transferring money there on fears that the funds will find their way to Iran or to Daesh. [Sumaria]

 

Prime Minister Abadi has ordered that the Bzaibiz area between Baghdad and Anbar be opened for humanitarian cases and to allow food supplies into Anbar. [Baghdadia]

 

The Minister of Displacement and Migration says the CoR refused to allocate 400,000 Iraqi Dinars (USD 330) to each displaced person as monthly aid. He also says if the displacement problem in Iraq is not solved, Europe will face more migrants. [Rudaw]

 

Prime Minister Abadi met with a delegation from the Badr Organization to discuss the war against Daesh. The Badr representatives announced they completely support the war and the reforms. [Sumaria]

DaeshDaily comment. Another supportive statement from Badr toward the Prime Minister and the war effort, after many negative ones, hopefully a positive sign.

 

The media center of the judiciary in Al-Rusafa announced today that a group of three terrorists was captured with 12 million narcotics pills. They were captured in the Ayn al-Tamr area in Kerbala near the Anbar border. The source says that the trade in illicit drugs is a major source of income for Daesh. [Baghdadia]

DaeshDaily comment. The most common drug used by Daesh is the stimulant Kiptagon. The “traditional” narcotics such as cocaine and heroin are not common in Iraq but Kiptagon is widespread, especially in the border areas in the west. Iraqi territory functions as a transit area for drugs coming from Afghanistan and Iran towards the Gulf region.  

 

The Minister of Defense meets with the Iranian military attaché in Baghdad to discuss intelligence cooperation and the fight against “terror groups”. [Mada]

The Minister visits a training camp for fighters from Ninewa being trained by Australian trainers in Baghdad (video and photos). [MoD Website] [Sumaria]

 

Baghdad Operations Command says security forces foiled the kidnapping of a Ministry of Oil general manager, near his house in Suleikh in north Baghdad by armed men in military uniforms. Security forces arrested 4 of the men; the rest managed to flee. [Mada]

 

The Chairman of the CoR’s Security and Defense Committee says Iraq will receive 5 more F-16s next week. Iraqi received 4 jets in July. Eventually there will be 36 delivered. [Shafaaq]

 

A Jaish Al-Mukhtar commander says they rocketed Camp Liberty based on information provided by a Mujahidin Khalq member from inside the camp. Twenty five members of the anti-Iran MEK group were killed and 200 wounded in the attack. [Fars]

DaeshDaily comment. Once again Jaish Al-Mukhtar gives exclusive statements to Fars, a “news” source tied to the Iranian regime! This avoids scrutiny of who this organization really is, who is really leading it, and who is really making its decisions (not necessarily someone from Iraq).

 

The MEK residents of Camp Liberty organized a protest and say the Iraqi government cut off their food and fuel for the fifth day in a row. [IraqPress]

DaeshDaily comment. This is an absurd and embarrassing failure by the Iraqi government, which had agreed to protect these people. First they let some mythical militia mortar them with heavy casualties, then they allow the perpetrators to put out a self-serving account of the incident without challenging it; meanwhile they cut off the people’s food. The Prime Minister needs to end his silence, deal firmly with the MEK issues, and replace the people who are responsible for what has happened.

 

The Al-Nujaba Movement leader says the PMFs have the ability to overthrow the governing system in Iraq but they won’t do it because they follow the Marjiya orders. He also says Iraq is paying for the Coalition airstrikes while 90% of them are “fictional”. [Sumaria] [Sumaria]

DaeshDaily comment. Well, thanks for not overthrowing the government, but we are reporting on all the airstrikes every day and would like to point out that they are not fictional to the people being bombed.

 

The Iraqi Army 42nd Brigade Commander says his troops captured a Daesh group in Mada’in responsible for 20 terrorist attacks. [Mawazin]

 

Daesh publishes photos of rocketing Iraqi forces in Abu Ghraib with Katyushas. [JustPaste]

 

According to security sources:

  • Unknown armed men killed a civilian in Graiat in northeast Baghdad, using guns fitted with silencers. [Baghdadia]
  • Unknown armed men attacked a money exchange office in Mashtal in east Baghdad, wounding the owner of the business and stealing 120,000 ID. [Mada]
  • An IED exploded near an industrial area in Basmaya, southeast Baghdad, killing one civilian and wounding eight. [Mada]
  • An IED exploded near a commercial area in Mada’in, killing a civilian and wounding 3. [Gharbiya]
  • An IED exploded near a popular restaurant in the Bayaa area in southwest Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding six. [Mada]

 

DIYALA

Diyala police showed confessions of 19 Daesh members on TV, including leaders responsible for many terrorist attacks in Diyala. Some attacks occurred as far back as 2007. [Sumaria]

 

Baquba

A security source in the Abbara area north of Baquba says Daesh members are hiding in orchards in the subdistrict and were responsible for at least eight attacks in the last few months, including assassinating four soldiers yesterday. [Sumaria]

DaeshDaily comment. Yesterday Daesh published photos of a training camp in Diyala which was reportedly liberated from Daesh long ago. Daesh can infiltrate supposedly liberated areas by posing as civilians and hiding in rural areas, from which they continue their terrorist activities targeting civilians.

 

A car dealer and a lawyer were kidnapped in two separate incidents inside Baquba city. [Sumaria]

 

Muqdadiya/Abu Saida

A security source says a policeman was killed when a sticky IED exploded under his civilian car in Muqdadiya. [Baghdadia]

 

KIRKUK

A police commander in Kirkuk said his officers arrested four Daesh members in an underground hideout 35 km (22 miles) southwest of Kirkuk city. He says they were responsible for planning yesterday’s attack on Dibis. [Sumaria]

A Daesh suicide group broke into the mayoralty building and the police building yesterday. After one blew himself up, the remaining three tried to destroy the building. Security forces were able to kill the remaining assailants before they could complete the attack. Four policemen were killed and 15 wounded. [Mada]

The Daesh (always victorious) version says 2 of its Kurdish suicide terrorists attacked the police building and the mayor’s office in Dibis on Tuesday, killing 6 guards while a third terrorist detonated a car bomb on the main checkpoint. The 2 others fought with the security forces for 2 hours before detonating themselves. [Dump]

 

IAF bombed a Daesh meeting in Al-Abbasi subdistrict in Hawija, killing many terrorists including the Daesh military commander. [IWMC Report]

 

NINEWA

Mosul

A local source says the Coalition bombed a Daesh location in east Mosul, killing 4 snipers from Arab countries. [BasNews]

 

Local sources say Daesh blew up 13 houses belong to Shabak citizens after looting them in Bazwaya in Hamdaniya District. [BasNews]

 

Kata’eb Al-Mosul says its fighters destroyed a vehicle near the Sayyed Hamad village with an IED, killing a Daesh sharia court official and his driver. [KM Facebook Page]

 

A PUK official says Daesh executed one of its commanders in Mosul for “refusing to obey orders”. [PUKMedia]

 

A former CoR member from Mosul says Daesh brought new commanders from Belarus and Azerbaijan who have started to change Daesh military plans and positions in the city. He says Daesh has evacuated its locations inside the city and moved the families of its commanders closer to the Syrian border. [Mawazin]

 

Daesh publishes a video of its tax collection process. [Archive]

 

Northwest Ninewa

Ninewa Operations Command says Coalition jets destroyed 10 Daesh locations and a weapons storehouse and killed 8 terrorists in airstrikes on areas east and west of Sinjar. [Mada]

 

Photos from Sinuni area in northern Sinjar District. This area of 140,000 people was liberated from Daesh but the population has not returned. [Rudaw]

DaeshDaily comment. The likely reasons for not returning are the uncertainty of their protection by the Peshmerga and the fact that the pro-Daesh Arab neighbors who turned against them are still there with no authority there to deal with them.

 

A Ninewa Police source says an IED targeting a Daesh police convoy exploded in Tal Afar, killing 3 terrorists and damaging 3 vehicles. [BasNews]

 

Daesh publishes photos of executing 2 men accusing them of stealing from “Muslims money”. [JustPaste]

DaeshDaily comment. This term means Daesh’s budget. Usually Daesh cuts off the hands of thieves but these men were accused of stealing from Daesh itself.

 

Elsewhere in Ninewa

A local source says the Coalition bombed a Daesh “air defense” headquarters in Baaj, killing 25 terrorists including a European explosives expert. [Sumaria]

 

Other Governorates  

KURDISTAN

Barham Salih, deputy secretary of the PUK, says there must be “real reforms” in the Kurdistan. [Sumaria]

 

A PUK official complained that President Barzani has always acted as a KDP leader rather than a KRG president. [Hawar]

 

KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani says he refuses to put the Region’s oil under the control of the central government in Baghdad but he is ready to involve the central government in selling and exporting the oil “transparently.” He says the oil policies of the KRG “are not failing.” He also stressed that the Kurds have the right to obtain independence from Iraq. [Sumaria]

 

A CoR member from Gorran says the Iraqi government stopped exporting Kirkuk oil to Ceyhan in Turkey. He says that was a warning sign to the KRG for not keeping its part in the oil deal with Baghdad. [Sumaria]

 

The KRG Deputy Prime Minister, Qubad Talabani of the PUK, says Daesh will not be defeated without “changing the policies in Iraq”. [Rudaw]

 

REPORTS FROM SYRIA

 

A UN spokesman says around 124,000 Syrians left their houses between October 5 and October 30. The Russian MoD says Russian jets conducted 1,631 sorties bombing 2,084 targets since they started the airstrikes on September 30. [Anadolu]

 

Northern Syria

A motorcycle bomb-rigged motorcycle parked near the YPG PR office in Tal Abyad exploded with no human casualties. [Welati]

 

A YPG source says a bomb-rigged car exploded in Atshan village in Hasaka southern countryside, killing or wounding many civilians. [ARA]

 

The Kurdish National Council in Syria says the PYD prevented its delegation from crossing to the IKR. [BasNews] Members of the KNCS say they were prevented because of their objections to the PYD policies like compulsory military service and the changing of school programs to PYD oriented curriculum. Meanwhile the KDP prevented 4 wounded YPG fighters from crossing into the IKR. [Welati] [Welati]

 

The Commander of Jaish Al-Islam, a Syrian armed jihadi militia, says his group is ready to cooperate with Turkey against the PYD. [Welati]

 

The Democratic Syria Forces liberated the Wansa village in Hasaka southern countryside after 2 days of fighting, killing 6 Daesh members. [Hawar]

A source close to the YPG says a Canadian citizen fighting with the YPG was killed yesterday in clashes against Daesh near Al-Hawl town. [BasNews]

The DSF advanced 3 km (2 miles) towards Al-Hawl, liberating 5 more villages and killing 7 members and destroying a vehicle bomb. [Hawar]

Daesh says one of its Syrian suicide bombers attacked a YPG convoy moving toward to Al-Hawl near Tal Brak with a vehicle bomb, killing or wounding many YPG fighters and forcing the rest to flee. [Dump]

Several journalists survived a Daesh vehicle bomb attack on their vehicle while covering the battles in the area. [Welati]

 

Daesh publishes photos of its recovery services after the Russian airstrikes on Raqqa. [JustPaste]

 

The Democratic Syria Forces captured 5 border stations between Hasaka and the Iraq border after Daesh withdrew from them to Al-Hawl without a fight. [Rudaw]

 

Fars publishes an aerial view video of the battles in Aleppo between the Syrian Army and Daesh. [Fars]

 

Northwestern Syria

Another Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander was killed in Aleppo. [BasNews]

 

Daesh says it stopped another Syrian Army attack on the Sheikh Ahmed village near Kowaires airbase, killing many soldiers and destroying 2 vehicles. [JustPaste]

 

Daesh continued its attack on Tal Arn near Al-Safira, killing 5 civilians including a 4-year-old child, and wounding 1. Civilians from the town left their houses and moved into tents 7 km (4 miles) away after the Syrian Army abandoned the town. [Hawar]

Central and Western Syria

Local sources say the Syrian Army regained control of the road between Aleppo and Hama, securing its supply lines. Daesh captured several areas on the road in late October. [Anadolu]

 

Eastern Syria

The RSS says Daesh arrested 70 people from Al-Mayadin in Deir Ez-Zor without giving any reason. [ARA]

 

Daesh publishes a video of its terrorists in the Rusafa area of Deir Al-Zor and says it captured several buildings in the area. [A3maq]

 

REPORTS FROM OTHER MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES

 

The UN Security Council announces the agenda for its meetings and once again Daesh is not on the agenda. [Rudaw]

 

A discussion between Daesh and Al-Qaeda supporters about Zawahiri’s last speech [Ana Al-Muslim]

 

Daesh audio newsletter for today in French [Archive]

Daesh “From the Frontlines” video [Archive]

 

Egypt. Daesh publishes an audio message insisting it brought down the Russian airplane and says “we are not obligated to show how we brought it down and we will announce it on the date we want”. [Archive]

A video of the Russian airplane crash scene filmed shortly after the crash. [BasNews]

 

Daesh says one of its suicide terrorists, and in response to the arrest of tribal women from Sinai by the Egyptian authorities, detonated a car bomb on the Police Officers Club in Arish, causing “dozens” of casualties. [Dump]  Egyptian authorities say at least 3 policemen were killed in a car bomb explosion near the Club. [AfriGate]

 

Daesh publishes photos of beheading a man in Sinai, accusing him of being a spy for Egyptian intelligence. [Dump]

 

Daesh says it destroyed an Egyptian mine destroyer and an armored vehicle in 2 IED attacks in 2 areas near Rafah. [JustPaste]

 

Other countries

Daesh says its terrorists attacked a Bengali police checkpoint in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing a policeman and wounding another. [Dump]

 

SOCIAL MEDIA SOURCES

Facebook Page of the Day

A Falluja page

 

Daesh Twitter Accounts of the Day

https://twitter.com/mae1352

https://twitter.com/Ndjdnd4

https://twitter.com/Faluj1

https://twitter.com/om_ans92

https://twitter.com/boncha8

https://twitter.com/jddj5077

 

 

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