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Titles For Latest LCCC Bulletin analysis & editorials from miscellaneous sources published On April 06-07/17
Gassing’ Syrians Is Overshadowed by Considerations of “The Eastern Question”
Eyad Abu Shakra/Asharq Al Awsat/April 06/17
Tech Underestimates Future Demand for Privacy/Leonid Bershidsky/Bloomberg View/April 06/17
Iranian Militias in Bahrain/Salman Al-dossary/Asharq Al Awsat/April 06/17
Scholar Radwan al-Sayed Wins King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies/Abdulrahman Al-Rashed/Asharq Al Awsat/April 06/17
The Terrorism Industry/Bassam Tawil/Gatestone Institute/April 06/17
Europe’s Out-of-Control Censorship/Judith Bergman/Gatestone Institute/April 06/17
What happened? Iranians are condemning Khan Sheikhoun massacre/Mamdouh AlMuhaini/Al Arabiya/April 06/17
Is it now Trump’s turn to bring misery to Syrians/Dr. Azeem Ibrahim/Al Arabiya/April 06/17
Why some family businesses do not taste success/Dr. Ali Al-Ghamdi/Al Arabiya/April 06/17
Titles For Latest Lebanese Related News published On April 06-07/17
Al-Rahi Meets Aoun: We Won’t Accept to Reach Elections without New Law
Hariri: Our government achieved a lot in 3 months
Hariri: Investing in Lebanon Prepares for Massive Reconstruction of Syria
Parliament Convenes to Assess Government Performance
Aoun Says Judicial Line-Ups Should be Free from Political Affiliations
Beary Says UNIFIL Would Evacuate Southern Citizens in Case of Crisis
Nusra Militant Dead, Another Hurt in Arsal Outskirts Blast
Ibrahim Pledges Effective Policies to Confront Terrorism
UK Says Lebanon Continues to be the Focus of International Attention
Fares braces new poll law based on proportionality with single constituency
Italian bilateral military mission (MIBIL) trains Lebanese air force on activation safety and aircraft accident investigation
Sakr asks government over exit to vote law vicious circle
Machnouk from Tunis: Congratulations for Lebanese as Beirut will host upcoming Arab interior ministers meeting
Bassil concludes his Australian tour: State cannot rise up without fair representation, political stability
Army Commander, Canadian Ambassador tackle general situation
Army: Terror cell in Tripoli referred to judiciary for links to terrorist organization
Doueihy: 60’s law better than vacuum
Zahra from Nejmeh square calls for holding parliamentary session to endorse wage scale
Fadlallah from Nejmeh square: We register for government budget accomplishment
Hamadeh from Brussels: Implementing our vision will help mitigate ramifications of Syria crisis
Titles For Latest LCCC Bulletin For Miscellaneous Reports And News published On April 06-07/17
US, Russia debate limit of US strike against Assad
UN urges 72-hour ceasefire to allow aid to Syria’s eastern Ghouta
US, Britain, France request name of pilot who carried out Syrian chemical attack
Responding to Idlib attack, Trump considering military action in Syria
Kremlin says Syrian gas attack ‘unacceptable’ but US data on it not objective
Israel Says Assad Ordered ‘Chemical Attack’
Turkey Says Initial Probe Suggests Syria Attack Victims Exposed to Sarin
Trump Sees Russia as ‘Problem’, Says Haley
Russia, Syria Hit Back as Pressure Builds over ‘Chemical Attack’
Syria ‘Did Not and Will Not’ Use Chemical Weapons, Says Muallem
French FM Says Assad Will be Judged as a War Criminal
Two Iraqi pilots killed when helicopter shot down over Mosul by ISIS
Top Bahrain Activist Denied Family Visit after Surgery
Moscow Says US Has No Objective Data on ‘Monstrous Crime’ in Syria
Human Rights Watch Slams ‘Barbaric’ Hamas Executions
Drone Strike Kills Qaida Suspect in Yemen
Army: Israeli Killed in West Bank Car Ramming Attack
Macron, Le Pen Still Leading Polls after ‘Historic’ Presidential Debate
Russia Arrests Suspected Accomplices of St. Petersburg Bomber
Paris, London: Priority in Syria Remains UN Resolution
Key Player of 1988 Massacre to Run in Iran “Presidential Elections”
Geneva – UN European HQ: Condemning Executions in Iran
Condemnation of the Syria Gas Attack in Idlib Province
Links From Jihad Watch Site for April 06-07/17
Egyptian President Sisi: “Trump has true understanding of terrorism”
Islamic State tells Muslims to steal from infidels and send them 20%
Israel: Two Muslim clerics arrested in connection to jihad stabbing attack in Jerusalem
France: Muslim screaming “Allahu akbar” murders Jewish woman, cops cover up terror angle
PA TV instructs viewers to obey Qur’an’s rules for wife-beating
Islamic State hackers release ‘kill list’ with 8,786 targets in US, UK
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: South Carolina Terror Case Highlights U.S.’s Schizophrenic Response to Jihad
Fifty Shades of Green
Video: Harvard students say Trump is more dangerous than the Islamic State
“Palestinian” rams car into Israeli soldiers, killing one and injuring another
Poland blasts EU for migrant quotas: ‘We will resist blackmail and pressure’
Making Things Appear What They Are Not
Links From Christian Today Site For On April 06-07/17
Muslim births will soon outpace Christian births – while more Christians are dying than Muslims
EXCLUSIVE: Nicky Morgan vows to keep asking questions because ‘we have no effective opposition’
Christian charity defends its President Franklin Graham after controversial comments backing Donald Trump
Monk accused of child sex abuse ‘was allowed to stay at leading Catholic school for years after claims emerged’
Prince Charles’ aides deny he ‘bumped’ Theresa May off ‘prime ministerial plane’ for trip to see The Pope
Corbyn blasts Livingstone for causing ‘deep offence and hurt’ to Jewish community as Labour opens fresh inquiry
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Trump launches military strike against Syria
Barbara Starr and Jeremy Diamond, CNN
Updated 9:46 PM ET, Thu April 6, 2017
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/06/politics/donald-trump-syria-military/index.html
(CNN)The United States launched a military strike on a Syrian government target in retaliation for their chemical weapons attack on civilians earlier in the week.
On President Donald Trump’s orders, US warships launched between 50-60 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian government airbase where the warplanes that carried out the chemical attacks were based, US officials said.
A US defense official said the strike was targeted on runway, aircraft and fuel points. The missiles were launched from warships in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Strikes are over “until another decision is made,” the official said.
Trump on Syria's Assad: 'Something should happen'
Trump on Syria’s Assad: ‘Something should happen’
The strikes are the first direct military action the US has taken against the leadership of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the country’s six-year civil war and represent a substantial escalation of the US’ military campaign in the region, which could be interpreted by the Syrian government as an act of war.
Trump was very affected by the images of dead children among the civilian casualties in the Syrian chemical weapons attack and felt compelled to act, a senior administration official said.
The US began launching airstrikes in Syria in September 2014 under President Barack Obama as part of its coalition campaign against ISIS, but has only targeted the terrorist group and not Syrian government forces.
Trump met with his national security team before his dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Mar-a-Lago Thursday, where he made the decision to pull the trigger on the biggest military action of his presidency, an administration official says.
He sat through dinner with the President Xi as action was under way.
Hillary Clinton: US should 'take out' Assad's air fields
Hillary Clinton: US should ‘take out’ Assad’s air fields
Defense Secretary James Mattis has been updating Trump about the missile strikes in Syria following his dinner with Xi, according to a US official.
Mattis, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Trump’s national security adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster were with Trump at Mar-a-Lago at the time. Vice President Mike Pence remained in Washington, where he returned to the White House after dinner.
Trump’s order to strike the Syrian government targets came a day after he said the chemical attacks — whose grisly effects were broadcast worldwide where videos captured in the immediate aftermath — “crossed a lot of lines for me” and said he felt a “responsibility” to respond.
Tillerson: No doubt Assad is responsible 01:39
“I will tell you it’s already happened that my attitude toward Syria and Assad has changed very much,” Trump said.
“When you kill innocent children — innocent babies — babies — little babies with a chemical gas that is so lethal, people were shocked to hear what gas it was, that crosses many, many lines. Beyond a red line, many, many lines,” Trump said.
Trump’s decision to launch the strikes, the most significant military action of his young presidency, came nearly four years after the US first concluded that Syrian forces had used chemical weapons in Syria. The Obama administration concluded that Syria had violated the “red line” Obama had set a year earlier in discussing the use of chemical weapons, but ultimately decided against military action against Syria in favor of a Russian-brokered deal to extricate the country’s chemical weapons stockpile.
Trump at the time said the US should “stay the hell out of Syria” and urged Obama on Twitter to “not attack Syria” in the wake of the 2013 chemical attack.
“There is no upside and tremendous downside. Save your ‘powder’ for another (and more important) day,” he tweeted in September 2013.
Trump repeatedly criticized Obama during his presidential campaign for not acting on his “red line” threat, but the real estate mogul also argued against deepening the US’ military involvement in Syria, particularly as it related to Assad.
Trump argued last May in a TV interview that he would “go after ISIS big league,” but said he did not support targeting Assad’s regime, arguing the US has “bigger problems than Assad.”
Syria’s six-year civil war has claimed the lives of at least 400,000, according to a United Nations estimate released a year ago. More than 5 million Syrians have fled the country and more than 6 million more have been displaced internally, according to UN agencies.
