| Submit your comments on this article |
| Arabia |
| UAE lobbied US to host Taliban office |
| 2017-08-02 |
| [Al Jazeera] The UAE lobbied US officials to be able to host an office for the Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... in Abu Dhabi - a milestone that eventually went to Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... , according to a series of leaked emails from the UAE ambassador to the United States. Reported by the New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... , the emails from Yusef al-Otaiba apparently contradict a mounted campaign against Qatar for its alleged support of "terrorist groups". As part of its attempt to isolate the peninsula, a Saudi-led bloc including the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt has derided Qatar for hosting an office for the Afghan gang. The office, which opened in June 2013, was part of a broader US-led effort to facilitate peace talks in Afghanistan - not to support their ideology or the group itself. The New York Times reported on Monday that Otaiba, the Emirati ambassador to Washington, had received an "angry call" from UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, complaining that the Taliban had ended up in Qatar and not the UAE, according to messages in the ambassador's Hotmail account. "I got an angry call from [Zayed] saying how come we weren't told," Otaiba wrote to an American official, referring to the decision on choosing Qatar to host the Taliban. The newspaper obtained another email dated September 12, 2011, in which an Emirati official questioned the US position on the Taliban office's location |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 I've never quite understood what is in it for UAE or AD or Qatar. It's not like the Taliban control anything worth having. Is it really just a case of paying protection? |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-08-02 12:42 |
| #1 'Prior Administration' |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-08-02 10:04 |