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| Qatar gets GCC backing in Libya row with Egypt |
| 2015-02-20 |
| [ARABNEWS] Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... recalled its ambassador to Egypt on Thursday following a row over Cairo's air strikes on terrorist targets in Libya, threatening fresh divisions between the two Arab countries. A Foreign Ministry official said Doha was recalling its envoy "for consultation" after Egypt's delegate to the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... accused Qatar of supporting "terrorism," during discussions on Libya. Egypt's new spat with Qatar, which was backed by its Gulf neighbors, came as Libyan officials urged the UN Security Council to lift an arms embargo to allow the country's military to fight myrmidons. Qatar and most other Gulf Arab nations have joined the US-led coalition, which is waging ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) terrorist group in Iraq and Syria. The regional rift may complicate US efforts to forge a united front against IS in Egypt's neighbor Libya, where faceless myrmidons are trying to establish another stronghold. US President Barack Obama They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them... on Wednesday urged Moslem leaders to unite and reject the "false promises of extremism" and myrmidons' claims to represent Islam. Cairo's envoy Tariq Adel made his accusation, according to Egyptian media, after Doha's representative expressed reservations over a clause in a communiquĂŠwelcoming the air strikes on IS targets in Libya. The communiquĂŠwas released at the end of an ambassador-level Arab League meeting in Cairo. Egyptian F-16s bombed myrmidon bases in the eastern Libyan city of Derna on Tuesday, after the IS in Libya released a gruesome video showing the beheadings of a group of Egyptian Coptic Christians who had gone to the North African country seeking work. Qatar's director of Arab affairs in the Foreign Ministry, Saad bin Ali Al-Mohannadi, said Doha had expressed reservations over welcoming the raids, stressing the need for "consultations before any unilateral military action against another member state." The ministry denounced the "tense" statement by Egypt's representative to the vaporous Arab League, saying it "confuses the need to combat terrorism (with)... the brutal killing and burning of civilians." |
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