[Garowe Online] Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... has signed a deal with Dubai-based firm, P&O Ports-a ports developer and operator- to develop and manage Bosaso seaport, Garowe online report
The signing ceremony held in Dubai city in United Arab Emirates, and attended by Puntland delegates led by Puntland President Abdiwali Mohammed Ali "Gaas", Puntland Parliament Speaker and Puntland Minister for Ports, and the chairman of Ports, Customs & Freezone Cooperation (PCFC) Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem.
According to the agreement, P&O has won a 30-year concession for the management and development of a multi-purpose port project at Bosaso. The approximate investment for the modern multi-purpose facility will be $ 336 Million divided into two phase. " $ 136 Million in the first phase and $ 200 in the second phase," read the statement.
The project will involve building a 450m quay and 5 hectare back up area. There will also be major investment in an IT and Terminal Operating System (TOS), mobile harbor cranes and container handling equipment.
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[BBC] The foreign secretary has called off a visit to Moscow in the wake of the Syrian chemical weapons attack.
Boris Johnson, who was set to travel on Monday, said the situation had changed "fundamentally" and his priority was to continue contact with the US to provide international support for a ceasefire. 'Changed Fundamentally'... indicating Russian complicity in WMD usage ?
He said the UK called on Russia to do everything possible to bring about a "political settlement in Syria".
"We deplore Russia's continued defence of the Assad regime," he added.
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will visit Moscow as planned after the G7 meeting on 10-11 April.
Mr Johnson said he was working to bring together other "like-minded partners" to "explore next steps soon".
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Pencilneck's use of CBW has to be viewed as a disaster by Russia. Does India want to buy arms from a war criminal? Russia better not be proved to be directly involved.
[Asharq al-Aswat] Moscow condemned on Friday the US air strike on a Syrian airbase, announcing that has suspended the bilateral agreement to help avoid festivities in the skies over the war-torn country.
"President Putin considers American strikes on Syria aggression against a sovereign state in violation of international norms, and under an invented pretext," said the statement by the Kremlin press service posted on the official website.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... accused the US of breaking international law in wake of the strike, adding that they have seriously hurt US-Russia relations, added the Kremlin.
Putin’s front man Dmitry Peskov was cited as saying that the Russian leader, a staunch ally of Syrian regime head Assad, regarded the US action was taken on a "made-up pretext" and as a cynical attempt to distract the world from civilian deaths in Iraq.
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Vlad sounds like he's been watching too much Maddow.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... ’s state-run news agency ...and if you can't believe the state-run news agency who can you believe?... says the Syrian pilot who ejected over Turkey last month has been nabbed Please don't kill me! for violating border security and espionage.
Anadolu news agency reported Friday that pilot Mehmet Sufhan, 56, was treated in the southern province of Hatay for a spinal fracture suffered after he ejected from the damaged Syrian plane on March 4. He was found in an exhausted state after a nine-hour search.
Anadolu says he was arrested following his discharge from the hospital.
Syrian opposition military group Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... claimed to have downed the plane as it was bombing the countryside around the northwestern Syrian town of Idlib.
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So, he's been in a hospital since March 4 with a spinal fracture, and they just located him?
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Releasing his name would have been a HIPAA violation...
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Tiberius chuckled. "Agrippa,
Your grandpa was chewing his slippa!
Not even a strippa
Could help him feel chippa --
His spies were all stymied by HIPAA."
[An Nahar] India will buy nearly $2 billion worth of weapons technology from Israel in what's being described as the "largest defense contract" ever signed by the military exporting giant.
The deal will see state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries provide India with an advanced defence system of medium-range surface-to-air missiles, launchers and communications technology, the company said in a statement Thursday.
The "mega" missile agreement is "considered to be the largest defense contract in Israel's defense industries' history", the company said.
The Israeli firm will also supply a naval defence system including long-range surface-to-air missiles for India's first aircraft carrier, which is still under construction.
Comment was not immediately available from India's defence ministry.
Israel Aerospace Industries said some components will be assembled in India, in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's push to reduce reliance on costly imports.
Modi's government has raised the limit on foreign investment in the defence sector and encouraged tie-ups between foreign and local companies under a 'Make in India' campaign.
India -- the world's largest defence importer -- has been investing tens of billions in updating its Soviet-era military hardware to counter long-standing tensions with regional rivals China and Pakistain.
India has signed several big-ticket defence deals since Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party stormed to power in 2014.
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[Iraq News] The Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... has released a new video threatening Jordan and urging its supporters to carry out attacks there similar to the deadly one it staged in Karak last December.
Entitled "Be Prepared for Worse", the snuffies released a 20-minute video featuring bloody images of brutal execution of five persons, who the group claimed to be Syrian personnel who received a military training in Jordan.
The IS fighters attacked the Jordanian tribes that are accused of disowning their sons who joined the group and battled in Syria. It also posted news about some tribes that ended relations with their sons.
The video also mentioned the Karak attack, which left 10 persons, including seven security personnel and a Canadian tourist, killed and 34 others injured. It also screened remarks by Jordanian officials reviewing the attack.
The video, issued by IS’s Wilayatul Furat, Arabic for Euphrates State, affiliated to the IS, the group mourned Omar Mahdi Zidan, a prominent Jordanian member whose death was reported few weeks ago.
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[IsraelTimes] Paleostinians will be barred from entering Israel for a week, from midnight on Monday until midnight the following Monday, April 17 except for special cases, IDF says.
The closure will affect the tens of thousands of Paleostinians who legally work in Israel every day, most of them in construction and maintenance.
Last month, the head of the Shin Bet security service warned lawmakers that terror groups may try to carry out attacks during the Passover holiday.
[MAIL] Syria has claimed it knew America was about to launch airstrikes hours before the attack on its airbase - and was able to move its planes out of the way.
The US military fired more than 50 tomahawk missiles at the al-Shayrat military airfield near Homs at 1.40am today. Russia was informed of the airstrike about 30 minutes in advance, according to Moscow's ambassador to the UN.
Now a Syrian military source has claimed that it had already 'learned of the American threat' and that precautions were taken 'in more than one military point'. The source did not say how they knew or who had informed them.
'We learned of the American threat and the expected military bombardment on Syrian territory,' a source told AFP.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Nine planes as well as munition and fuel depots were destroyed in the US strike on Syria’s Shayrat airbase early Friday but the runway was intact, the Russian state channel Rossiya24 reported from the scene.
"According to preliminary information, nine Syrian airplanes were destroyed," its correspondent said in a report from the base, broadcast hours after the strike at 0040 GMT Friday.
Stores with ammunition and fuel were also targeted, he said, adding that a fire and some kabooms were ongoing.
"But not all equipment has been destroyed, there is some that was not impacted by the strike," the correspondent said.
"The landing strip... is practically not impacted," he added.
Footage showed the runway intact but covered in debris, as well as two planes sitting in concrete hangars.
The aircraft were apparently not heavily damaged while some other hangars were charred and surrounded by rubble.
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Groovy. Destroy "Syrian" army and be responsible for the massacre of 4 million Alawis & Christians by Sunnis - "but we didn't me to!".
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US cruise missile strikes target Syria's Su-22 fleet The US Department of Defense lists targets for the 7 April strike as having included "aircraft, hardened aircraft shelters, petroleum and logistical storage, ammunition supply bunkers, air defence systems and radars".
Israeli sources indicate that 14 of the Syrian air force's approximately 40-strong fleet of Su-22s were destroyed in the attack, with additional assets including helicopters also having been struck. Significant damage was caused to the air base's two main runways, they add.
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[An Nahar] Syrian rebels on Friday welcomed a US strike on a government airbase, but urged additional action, with one powerful faction saying a single strike was "not enough."
The US attack on the Shayrat base in central Syria was Washington's first military action against the regime in the six-year civil war.
"Hitting one airbase is not enough, there are 26 airbases that target civilians," a key figure in the Army of Islam faction, Mohammed Alloush, said on his Twitter account.
"The whole world should save the Syrian people from the clutches of the killer Bashar (al-Assad) and his aides."
Other rebel groups welcomed the US strike and called for continued military action against the regime.
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[An Nahar] Canada "fully supports" the U.S. firing of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday.
"Canada fully supports the United States' limited and focused action to degrade the Assad regime's ability to launch chemical weapons attacks against innocent civilians, including many children," he said in a statement.
"President Assad's use of chemical weapons and the crimes the Syrian regime has committed against its own people cannot be ignored," he added. "These gruesome attacks cannot be permitted to continue operating with impunity."
The prime minister called this week's chemical attack in the northwestern province of Idlib "a war crime" and "unacceptable."
"Canada condemns all uses of chemical weapons," he said.
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Well he would say that, wouldn't he? Besides his hair looks so wonderful.
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First sign that you f'ed up. Trudeau is in your corner.
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"Canada condemns all uses of chemical weapons," he said.
As different from other weapons such as, for example: napalm? thermobaric? cluster munitions? high explosive? slingshot pebbles?
[An Nahar] Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... on Friday condemned the overnight U.S. missile strike on a Syrian air base as a "blatant aggression" and "foolish step" that will aggravate tensions in the region.
"This new crime reflects the U.S. administration's insistence on carrying on with the hostile course that the United States has always taken against our nation, in order to serve the interests of the Zionist entity and achieve its ambitions in the region," Hizbullah said in a statement.
"Such reprehensible attacks cannot affect the morale of the heroic Syrian army which is achieving one victory after another against the murderous Moslems who are backed by the U.S. and its cronies in the various Syrian regions," the party added.
Such attacks "will not have any negative impact on the axis of resistance and resilience that is standing by the Syrian state and aiding it in its continuous war against terrorism," Hizbullah, which has sent thousands of fighters into neighboring Syria to bolster the regime against an Islamist-led uprising, went on to say.
"This foolish step by the Trump administration will lead to great and dangerous tensions across the region and will further complicate the situations across the world," Hizbullah warned.
The U.S. fired a barrage of 59 cruise missiles at the Shayrat base at dawn in response to a suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town on Tuesday widely blamed on the Damascus regime.
The Syrian government has categorically denied the accusation, saying it had struck an arms depot belonging to a jihadist group.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] (3:03 A.M.) "Who you gonna call at 3 a.m.?"
‐ Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, sometimes described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as a crook... , despite losing the 2016 US Presidential Election, has continued on her war monger, calling for her country to destroy Syria’s air force, days after a chemical attack killed over 50 people, in which the US has blamed the Syrian government without providing sufficient evidence.
"Assad has an air force, and that air force is the cause of most of these civilian deaths as we have seen over the years and as we saw again in the last few days," Clinton said in a speech at the "Women in the World" summit in New York City. "And I really believe that we should have and still should take out his air fields and prevent him from being able to use them to bomb innocent people and drop sarin gas on them."
"I still believe we should have done a no-fly zone," she said, in a slight knock against former President Barack Obama That’s just how white folks will do you.... , whose Cabinet she served in. "We should have been more willing to confront Assad."
Clinton, was a n open supporter of the US conducting direct action in Syria. despite Obama’s position on taking no military action in the country.
"I wish, obviously I wish that the international community writ large had been able to rein this in," Clinton said, while acknowledging that the decision was not an easy one.
Clinton then also took the opportunity to attack Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... "He is absolutely a prisoner of his family’s expectations, his dead father’s looming presence and his delusion, that I believe he now probably could pass a lie detector about, that everyone who opposes him is a terrorist," Clinton said of Assad, before adding, "That is how Putin thinks."
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Ran twice but lost both. Still believes shes smarter than the other two. And willing to announce it no less. There must be a clinical term for that.
[Breitbart] A stunning update on Friday afternoon from the Associated Press said the Pentagon is investigating possible Russian participation in the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons attack.
These officials also supported the dire suspicion that nearby hospitals were attacked to cover up evidence of the WMD deployment:
The officials say Russia has failed to control the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons.
They say a drone belonging either to Russia or Syria was seen hovering over the site of the chemical weapons attack Tuesday after it happened. The drone returned late in the day as citizens were going to a nearby hospital for treatment. Shortly afterward, officials say the hospital was bombed.
The officials say they believe the hospital attack may have been an effort to cover up evidence of the attack.
The officials weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity. They say they’re still reviewing evidence.
According to CNN, the Pentagon is particularly interested in whether a Russian warplane actually conducted the bombing run on the Khan Sheikhoun hospital where victims were receiving treatment within hours of the attack, "with the aim of destroying evidence."
Such an inquiry will not, of course, sit well with Russia, which is currently demanding a U.N. Security Council investigation of American aggression.
There have been conflicting reports about whether any Russian personnel or aircraft, particularly helicopters, were present at the Sharyat airbase. Videos can be found online purporting to show Russian helicopters at the base as recently as February, but Fox News quotes Pentagon briefers stating "no Russian aircraft were at the Sharyat airfield" when the missiles struck.
However, the Fox News report also quotes U.S. officials who said "between 12 and 100 Russian military personnel" were present at the base, complete with their own barracks, which the U.S. "took pains" to avoid blowing up. If the chemical weapons attack on Idlib province was indeed conducted from the base, it would be very difficult for the Russians to argue they were unaware a war crime was in progress under their noses.
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...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[IsraelTimes] Paleostinians will be barred from entering Israel for a week, from midnight on Monday until midnight the following Monday, April 17 except for special cases, IDF says. 
Hillary Clinton
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
[Breitbart] A stunning update on Friday afternoon from the Associated Press said the Pentagon is investigating possible Russian participation in the Syrian regime’s chemical weapons attack.
