Saudi Arabia and Qatar are normally on good terms, but following a broad new “anti-terrorist” edict by the Saudi King Abdullah the two nations are at loggerheads, with the Saudis threatening air, land, and sea blockades of Qatar.
Though couched as targeting terrorism, the Saudi demands are targeted at Qatar’s international politics, with the primary demand a full closure of popular TV news channel al-Jazeera.
The Saudis also want Qatar to sever ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s elected government ousted in last summer’s coup, and to expel two US think tanks, the Brookings Institute and the RAND Corporation.
The Qatari Foreign Minister Khalid Attiya insisted that his government’s policy will not change, and that despite Saudi threats they remain committed to retaining an independent foreign policy.
Saudi Arabia, a terrorist-supporting country itself, cannot have the leisure of drawing up a list of terrorist groups to ban. I laughed so hard I almost dropped from my chair. Either it is calling its terrorists back within 15 days so that it can use them in Ukraine against Russia by order of its boss in Warshinhgton, or it is a public relation stunt to cover its long terrorist activities in Syria. As my father said, it won’t work.
With regards to threatening air, land, and sea blockades of Qatar, I wonder how it can accomplish sea blockade. About KSA’s threat to forcefully close down Al Jazeera network, you would think the champion of free speech, the US of A, would leap into action and crush Saudis. Huh?
Trying to shut down a kinda-sorta free media …. yep, must be an American ally hard at work.
To the USA Democratic Party, stop pretending that you are for a functioning democracy or fair politics around the world using tyrants or apartheid regimes and other dictatorial regimes for those whom bribe your high ranking politicians to make a mess out of yet another mees made by Hillary Clinton or Obama, the "interests" that these people are talking about is their economic interests, otherwise Saudis will never let you build a church in Saudi Arabia nor for that matter allow jewish to practices their faith in Saudi Arabia, Israel is a apartheid regime, they might cooperate with Saudis but only for gaining something out of the suffering of other Arab and otter national, namely Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, Afghanistan, Pakistan and later a planed war with Iran. Obama is a manipulater, politicians you voted him in for his lies, he and Hillary playing you for those interests that they are working for, expansion by NSA is witnessing to that, CIA contractors operating in Middle East and other part if this wired is witnessing to that and cooperating with Neo, old and ok'd fascism in Ukraine is witnessing to that.