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US State Department envoy working on Qatar crisis resigns
2019-01-09
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Anthony Zinni, a retired Marine Corps general and former head of US Central Command who has been working as State Department envoy for the Trump administration to resolve a feud between 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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
and its neighbors, has resigned from his post.

Zinni said he resigned after coming to the conclusion that he could not solve the Gulf dispute because of an inability to agree on what the mediation effort should be.

Zinni was a Marine general who once commanded US forces in the Middle East. After the military he served as special envoy to Israel and the Paleostinian Authority.

On June 5, 2017, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt cut ties with key US ally Qatar, accusing it of backing extremism and building ties with Iran.
Posted by:Fred

#3  What crisis?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-01-09 13:54  

#2  you can't mediate existential differences
Posted by: Frank G   2019-01-09 09:01  

#1   (Other news) But the resignation of former four-star Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni on Tuesday is no obvious rebuke to Trump. Instead, it appears to reflect Zinni's frustration with the Sunni-Arab monarchies in regards to their diplomatic freeze. That freeze centers around an economic blockade of Qatar by a Saudi-led alliance of other Sunni monarchies. Those nations are infuriated by Qatar's excessive support for Islamist revolutionary movements across the Middle East and Doha's increasingly close relationship with Iran.
In comments to various news outlets, Zinni said he saw no further point in trying to push the monarchies to find a compromise. He believed they had no interest in compromise.
Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889   2019-01-09 07:58  

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