Saudi-Qatar Rift

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Saudi Arabia, allies blacklist groups and individuals connected to Qatar, Libya and Yemen, label them terrorists

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia and its allies on Tuesday announced they had blacklisted charity groups and individuals with ties to Yemen, Qatar and Libya, labelling them "terrorist" over suspected ties to Islamist extremism.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt released a joint statement naming nine charity organisations and nine individuals "directly or indirectly linked to Qatari authorities" as "terrorist", according to a statement carried by the SPA state news agency.


Three organisations in Yemen and six based in Libya were accused of ties to Al-Qaeda and a Syrian affiliate of the group in Tuesday's statement.

The statement also said three Qatari nationals, three Yemenis, two Libyans and a Kuwaiti citizen were involved in "fundraising campaigns to support Jabhat al-Nusra and other terrorist militias in Syria".

Kuwait has not joined the states boycotting Qatar and is leading mediation efforts to resolve the crisis, the worst to hit the Gulf since the establishment of the Gulf Cooperation Council in 1981.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE lead an Arab military coalition allied with the Yemeni government in a violent war against Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels. The war has killed more than 8,000 civilians since the coalition intervened in 2015, according to the World Health Organization.
 

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No lover of India would shed one third of a tear if that propaganda trash called Al Jazeera were shut down, I'll tell you that.
...and no one is.

In fact, the dominant response coming from anyone who hears about the Saudi-Qatar rift is "err..what? one Muslim tribe upset with another tribe? nothing new, we don't need the details, let them kill each other".

Saudi labeling Qatar a supporter of terrorism is like one Negro calling the other Negro black.
 

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New UAE Documentary Claims Qatar Complicit In Sept. 11 Attacks

Deported camels. Rerouted planes. Just when you thought the Gulf crisis couldn't get any more absurd, a media outlet linked to the Abu Dhabi ruling family has announced the release of a documentary claiming that Qatar was behind the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Sky News Arabia, owned in part by Emirati scion Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, will release the documentary, called "Qatar... The Road to Manhattan," on Wednesday. It focuses on Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad's visit to Qatar in 1996 as well as "Qatar's long-term support for him, including protection and financial assistance, to achieve his terrorist goals and plans," according to a report by Gulf News.

The documentary comes amid an ongoing diplomatic crisis in the Gulf. In early June, long-simmering tension spilled over into open hostility when Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and other countries broke ties with Qatar over what they claimed was its financing of terrorism. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Egypt have imposed a blockade until Doha accedes to their demands, isolating the tiny Gulf peninsula and strangling its economy.

Qatar lobbed the same accusation at the UAE back in June. "Emiratis, not Qataris, were among the hijackers who flew planes into the Twin Towers,'' wrote Qatari Ambassador to the United States Sheikh Meshal bin Hamad Al Thani in a June 18 Wall Street Journal opinion piece. "The UAE was singled out in the 9/11 Commission's report for its role in laundering money to terrorists."

Reports that a high-ranking Qatari minister shielded Khalid Sheikh Mohammad from the CIA in 1996 are certainly known, but they are hardly new.

While none of the hijackers were Qatari nationals, two of them were from the UAE, and 15 out of 19 were Saudi. Osama bin Laden was born and raised in Saudi Arabia, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, currently held in Guantanamo, is Pakistani.

In response to the blockade, Qatar has launched an international public relations blitz in an attempt to win support against the three far larger countries, including lobbying in Washington, to play up the human rights violations the blockade has caused. Saudi Arabia has launched its own campaign, hiring top Washington lobbyists.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson traveled to the region in July, shuttling between capitals in an attempt to smooth the relationship between two of the United State's most important regional allies. On July 10, he signed a memorandum with the Qatari government agreeing to work towards combatting terrorism financing.

An annual report released last week by the State Department indicated that Qatar cooperated with international efforts to combat terrorism and terrorism financing and that it had made strides in shutting down the informal financial system within its borders that had previously channeled some illicit funding into the wrong hands.
 

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This just reached a whole new level. Blaming Qatar for 9/11 is a huge change in perception.
 

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15 out of 19 terrorists in 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia. Mastermind was Saudi, sheltered by Pakistan.

American response: destroy Afghanistan, invade Iraq, bomb Syria, blame Qatar.

Nice work.
 

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15 out of 19 terrorists in 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia. Mastermind was Saudi, sheltered by Pakistan.

American response: destroy Afghanistan, invade Iraq, bomb Syria, blame Qatar.

Nice work.
In this rift, the americans are supporting Qatar it seems. USA has also passed a bill to allow suing of Saudi for 9/11. Blaming of Qatar is being done by Saudis & its stooges.
 

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