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2016-08-03 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Haniyeh seeks to pay Hamas ‘military personnel’ with Qatar’s money

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Posted by Fred 2016-08-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top
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#1 Qatar's ruling family, the al-Thani have been supporting the Muslim Brotherhood for more than thirty years. Since its inception in 1988 it has supported Hamas, a Muslim Brotherhood chapter whose charter demands the extirpation of Israel. The ruling family supplied arms to Libyan Islamist rebels thus fanning the flames of war in Libya. It supplied arms to Islamists operting in Syria. So why is the US so interested in maintaining a huge military base in that country? Why is the State Department enthusiastically supporting the creation of so-called "think tanks" by American leftist institutions? And why is Qatar Hillary Clinton's favorite Gulf country (Google and find out).

Posted by Fleatch Shitch4438 2016-08-03 09:47|| 2016-08-03 09:47|| Front Page Top

#2 So why is the US so interested in maintaining a huge military base in that country?

How many choices do we have? And the example of Saudi Arabia shows the benefit to the ruling family of having American Janissaries on site, even if they can't be ordered around.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-08-03 11:25|| 2016-08-03 11:25|| Front Page Top

#3 How many choices do we want? In Saudi Arabia there is a NATO base at Tabaq and at least two secret drone bases. In Kuwait we have a huge base. We have military running around Bahrein. There are weird things happening at Oman and on Socotra Island. I agree that our base on Qatar is there to protect the al-Thani from Iran, but why a base which in extent is bigger than the Pentagon parking lot?

Posted by Fleatch Shitch4438 2016-08-03 13:06|| 2016-08-03 13:06|| Front Page Top

#4 I assume that parking lot is pretty big, Fleatch Shitch4438. I'll trust you on the rest -- those are not things I knew anything about... except that Kuwait was used for staging for Iraq, as I recall.

Posted by trailing wife 2016-08-03 21:40|| 2016-08-03 21:40|| Front Page Top

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