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Proof: Assad regime planned US journalist Austin Tice's kidnap for weeks, BBC finds

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55a1be8ad26750c2e9890314c8bbf03ade984e034726f99aea700934dd138c70

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1. Hash the record: sha256sum headline-55a1be8ad267.json prints 55a1be8ad26750c2e9890314c8bbf03ade984e034726f99aea700934dd138c70. Its first twelve characters are the end of this record's address.
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