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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
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Isn't just the province of the west.
Interesting developments in the middle east, Qatar has effectively been isolated. The surrounding countries, including Bahrain, UAE and Saudi Arabia have closed their borders to Qatar.
Citizens of Qatar have been given 2 weeks to get out of the other countries, citizens of their countries aren't allowed to travel o Qatar, and airspace has been closed to them which will have a serious impact on their airline and economy.
The notional reason for this is Qatar's links with Terrorist organisations. The cynic in me says there's something other agenda at play.
Interesting that when western countries talk about restricting immigration from countries with a propensity to produce Islamic terrorists, the world loses it's collective mind, yet when majority Muslim countries take it to a new extreme, not a murmur.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40168856 _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Mountains Magpie
Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Location: Somewhere between now and then
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Yes Stui, I mentioned this yesterday, on page 75 of the terror attacks thread.
Further coverage here:
http://www.middleeasteye.net
MM _________________ Spiral progress, unstoppable,
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stui magpie
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Sorry MM, I missed it. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Mountains Magpie
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All good It's a pretty busy thread!!
That middleeasteye site is worth a look, if only for another perspective. _________________ Spiral progress, unstoppable,
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stui magpie
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Cheers, it is interesting.
Qatar is Trumps fault? _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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Tannin
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I was very worried about the third Qatar but after Treloar's great goal in the final Qatar I knew that we'd be OK. _________________ �Let's eat Grandma.� Commas save lives! |
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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OK. Where were you worried about the third Qatar but after Treloar's great goal in the final Qatar he or she knew that we'd be? |
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ronrat
Joined: 22 May 2006 Location: Thailand
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All those crooks at FIFA who took bribes to allow Qatar to host the world cup will be careful about when they spend the money. It could well be that spots will be won by countries who are won't allow athletes to go. Time for a revisit I think and all delegates in the original vote banned from voting. _________________ Annoying opposition supporters since 1967. |
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Mountains Magpie
Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Location: Somewhere between now and then
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Mugwump
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Tannin wrote: | I was very worried about the third Qatar but after Treloar's great goal in the final Qatar I knew that we'd be OK. |
I was not too concerned before, but when Tannin is posting Dad jokes, it's clear that we are in crisis and Buckley has to go. _________________ Two more flags before I die! |
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David
I dare you to try
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I'm as surprised by this as anybody, particularly given that I always saw Qatar as a client state of the US and very much in the same camp as the rest of the pro-Saudi, anti-Iran gulf bloc – but it seems these tensions have been bubbling away for a while now, and most of it comes down to their support of the Muslim Brotherhood.
That's a tricky issue that may be more complicated than how it's sometimes represented. As far as I'm aware, the Muslim Brotherhood are not actually a Jihadist/terrorist organisation but rather a 'moderate' Islamist one – which is to say, they are at least ostensibly pro-democracy and anti-violence while still seeking the imposition of Sharia Law. Certain sections of the Arab world consider them terrorists though, most notably in Egypt where the military junta has designated them enemy number one (primarily, as far as I can tell, because the Muslim Brotherhood won the first free election there after the Arab Spring). So there's a lot of politics going on here that we might not immediately be aware of. _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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Not much more. |
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Mountains Magpie
Joined: 01 Mar 2005 Location: Somewhere between now and then
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Culprit
Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne
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Two good things will come from this:
1 - Cheap Oil as Qatar will need the $$$
2 - The World Cup will be in Australia as no one will be able to get to Qatar. |
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Mountains Magpie
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Culprit wrote: | Two good things will come from this:
1 - Cheap Oil as Qatar will need the $$$
2 - The World Cup will be in Australia as no one will be able to get to Qatar. |
Cheap gas I'm sure you mean
IIRC, Qatar is the largest LNG exporter or has the world's largest reserves of LNG. It's one or the other, maybe both!
I'm starting to think this is about LNG, not terrorism or the funding thereof.
MM _________________ Spiral progress, unstoppable,
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