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| Qatar Expected to be Next Target for Al Qaida |
| 2003-11-30 |
| From Middle East Newsline The United States expects Qatar to be the next target for Al Qaida. Next step for the Al Qaida Plan "Operation Piss-off the Hornets" Arab diplomatic sources said the U.S. military and government have been increasing security measures in Qatar amid concerns that Al Qaida plans a series of strikes in the emirate. Saves Al-Jezeera’s travel budget. The sources said the United States has obtained evidence of an Al Qaida sleeper cell in Qatar and has collected communications among insurgency operatives that refer to Doha as the next target of attack. Qatar has been deemed as among the most pro-U.S. Gulf Arab state in the region. The emirate allowed itself to become a major base of military operations during the U.S.-led war in Iraq. The London-based Asharq Al Awsat daily said that Washington’s determination has resulted in a U.S. reassessment of Qatar as a venue for regional meetings. The newspaper said on Monday that Washington appears prepared to move a scheduled session on Islamic curriculum from Doha to Egypt. The meeting has been scheduled for Dec. 13 and plans to last five days. |
| Posted by:Alaska Paul |
| #5 you just cannot take the viper Al-Qaida and all other terrorist organizations to your chest and not expect to be bitten by them. Yeah, but they need some venom in the eyes and a snakebite to the test-eye-kils before they REALLY learn their lesson. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-11-30 9:55:29 PM |
| #4 AP, Zhang, I agree. It is time the arabs (and malayians, pakistani, etc....) realize that you just cannot take the viper Al-Qaida and all other terrorist organizations to your chest and not expect to be bitten by them. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2003-11-30 9:41:31 PM |
| #3 I do not think that ululating would be appropriate if Qatar was hit by a terrorist attack. The arabs are going to have to realize that nobody is safe from these nutcases, and they cannot ignore it and hope that it goes away. Al Qaeda is changing its tactics as they have suffered some significant hits from the West that have hurt them. We are all in this together. The sooner the muslim world realizes this the safer they (and we) will become. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-11-30 7:37:17 PM |
| #2 This would be poetic justice - given Qatar's funding of Al Jazeera. I'll have to learn to ululate, just so I can do it after I hear about the attack. That's assuming this is once again an attack against Arabs, given the considerable difficulty of getting to large numbers of Americans. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2003-11-30 6:54:38 PM |
| #1 This would be poetic justice - given Qatar's funding of Al Jazeera. I'll have to learn to ululate, just so I can do it after I hear about the attack. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2003-11-30 6:51:43 PM |