[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A top 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... i investor in Doha Stock Exchange recently appeared on al-Jazeera television channel to reassure Qatari and foreign investors that the stock situation is alright. This has come following the news of many investors exiting the market as they feared a dark future especially that the quartet’s boycott is still on and there are little indications of it ending soon.
The investor, Jaber bin Hajjaj al-Ashahwani, broke down as he called on the Qataris to feel for Qatar as he saw how capital inflow has stopped in the exchange because they are worried about the boycott and fear that they will lose their capital and profit.
As a result, the stock exchange has lost many of its traded funded. The Qatari government’s efforts did not reassure investors even though it pumped government funds to revive the stock exchange.
The economic situation, particularly the stock exchanges, are the most credible when detecting reactions to any political development as these numbers do not lie. This is how analysts figure out people’s real opinion away from the media fuss, which may depict a wrong picture about the situation of a country.
Yes, Qatar is a rich country and its population is small, which makes its citizens rich. However, ars longa, vita brevis... investors are fleeing the country, which is draining the economy. This indicates what the Qatari citizens cannot disclose as they fear the government’s suppression.
The government of Hamad bin Khalifa and Hamad bin Jassim does not hesitate to punish anyone who dares criticize it and oppose it. Punitive measures can go as far as revoking citizenships.
Qatar’s situation resembles that of a human being who refuses to admit he is ill and in need of treatment and insists on maintaining his lifestyle until his condittion gets worse and it’s impossible to control the disease. A skilled politician does not include words like stubbornness in his dictionary.
He only insists on something when persistence is in his favor and backs down when he realizes that persistence may harm his country’s interest. However, ars longa, vita brevis... the government of Hamad bin Khalifa and Hamad bin Jassim foolishly addresses political matters. All they do is lie and they are basically lying to themselves before lying to others.
They say the Qatari treasury has huge funds but I am certain that they will not be able to withstand the situation forever especially after their attempts to internationalize their cause failed and the world ignored them or only sympathized with them via statements.
As I have said before, Qatar will be forced to submit as the Qataris will not be able to bear the isolation they are suffering from. Moreover, trying to please people inside Qatar by pumping money into the market is a policy which the regime cannot continue to adopt.
This is more so especially that their advisors from the Arabs of the North, mainly Azmi Bechara, will eventually realize that they are the ones who misled Hamad bin Khalifa and Hamad bin Jassim and led them to this suffocating and costly isolation.
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This Qatari situation is puzzling to me. The Saudi tribal leaders of a century ago would have just invaded, and slayed the Qatari royal family and incorporated their harem into their own. Why are the Saudis such pussies these days. It is a mystery.
...Four Republican senators hold and have held our country in their hands for most of this year by themselves. They obstruct progress by wielding far too much power than their positions and number merit.
They are Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and John McCain of Arizona.
These four prevented healthcare reform and they now stand in the way of tax reform.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] We are on the verge of a new civil war in Iraq between the Kurds and Baghdad’s authority, which is dominated by Shiite parties. The sectarian part of the war will be between the Kurdish Peshmerga and the Popular Mobilization while on another hand it will be between the Iraqi army forces and Kurdistan’s army.
The line of fire, which may spark festivities, is the Kirkuk front, the Iraqi city known for its petroleum and mixed identity as the Kurds insist that it is Kurdish and belongs to the Kurdistan region.
Baghdad is using the constitution as a pretext to confirm that the Kurds, led by Masoud Barzani, violated the constitution and created a de facto power base. Baghdad concluded that the independence referendum is worthless and unconstitutional.
Baghdad has Arab and Islamic regional and international support while Erbil stands alone due to Barzani’s stubborn decision to hold the referendum. What’s interesting though is the argument brought up by the Iraqi authority regarding the Kirkuk battle.
The Iraqi authority reproached the Kurds, and we wish it reproached them for something shameful! They said Erbil resorted to imported muscle from the Kurdistan’s Workers Party and this, according to the Ministerial Council for National Security’s statement, amounts to "dragging the country to domestic fighting to achieve the aim of fragmenting Iraq and the region to establish a state on ethnic basis." Baghdad’s statement also accused Iraq’s Kurds of "seeking to make demographic changes."
The Iraqi Kurds
How are the Iraqi Kurds supposed to respond to these accusations? An official of the Kurdistan Region Security Council said the Popular Mobilization forces who stand at the gates of Kirkuk and threaten the Peshmerga consist of Shiite factions supported by Iran.
The right thing to do here is to look into what led to the current disastrous situation instead of standing still at the present moment! Yes, Baghdad’s government is right about wanting to maintain the constitution and protect Iraq’s unity and it is right about rejecting the Iraqi Kurds’ move of seeking the help of an armed Kurdish-Ottoman Turkish group ‐Erbil of course denies this accusation.
However what about the philosophy and doctrine of the so-called Popular Mobilization in Iraq? Who are they? Where do they derive their ideology from and who trains them? What about Qais Khazali, Aws al-Khafaji, Hadi al-Amiri and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis?
What is the nature of the link between the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and the Quds Brigade, under Qassem Soleimani’s command, to these bully boy formations? What about protecting the sense of Iraqi patriotism that is not flavored with sectarian chants? This is the point and this is what led the Kurds to say what they said and do what they did.
IRIB reported that Revolutionary Guard Major General Abdullah Khosrawi died in Syria on Saturday after going there "to defend the shrines of Ahl al-Bayt."
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] October 13 marked the day when General Michel Aoun ...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah... , a former commander of the Lebanese army, fled to the French Embassy in Beirut. Although history does not repeat itself, a tragedy that affects Leb’s domestic situation is about to happen.
Divisions are widening and deepening in the country due to Hezbollah’s domination and its control of institutions and the army’s decision-making. Meanwhile the president, i.e. Michel Aoun, is biased toward Hezbollah even when it comes to international decisions.
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[DAWN] WITH rapid pace, 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.... Khorasan Province (ISKP) is trying to fill the vacuum created by a fading Al Qaeda. ISKP’s increased presence in Afghanistan and its claiming responsibility for some terrorist acts, the declaration of allegiance to it by some Tehrik-e-Taliban ...Arabic for students... Pakistain (TTP) dissidents and the reported collaboration between ISKP and a few terrorist groups have increased insecurity.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Michel Aoun
