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Haniyeh seeks to pay Hamas ‘military personnel’ with Qatar’s money
2016-08-03
[TIMESOFISRAEL] Senior Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, leader in Gazoo Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
said Sunday he is working to ensure money sent to the terror group by 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...
will be used to pay "military personnel" alongside civilian babus government employees.

The Times of Israel reported recently that Qatar agreed to transfer some 113 Saudi riyal ($31 million) to Hamas in order to pay the salaries of the group’s employees in the Strip. Over the past three years, Hamas employees have generally been receiving a third to half of their salaries.

According to a statement published on Hamas’s website, Haniyeh is in contact with various "government agencies" in Gazoo to support the payment of the group’s "military personnel" with the Qatari money.

In the statement, the Hamas big turban lashed out against "parties" in Gazoo who attempt to distinguish between the military and civilian branches of the organization. Haniyeh demanded that both military and civilians are considered "legitimate" employees who are "appointed by the decision of a legitimate government."

Haniyeh did not indicate which "parties" had called for there to be a difference between the two branches of Hamas, or indeed whether those parties were strictly Paleostinian or international officials present in the Strip.
Posted by:Fred

#4  I assume that parking lot is pretty big, Fleatch Shitch4438. I'll trust you on the rest -- those are not things I knew anything about... except that Kuwait was used for staging for Iraq, as I recall.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-08-03 21:40  

#3  How many choices do we want? In Saudi Arabia there is a NATO base at Tabaq and at least two secret drone bases. In Kuwait we have a huge base. We have military running around Bahrein. There are weird things happening at Oman and on Socotra Island. I agree that our base on Qatar is there to protect the al-Thani from Iran, but why a base which in extent is bigger than the Pentagon parking lot?
Posted by: Fleatch Shitch4438   2016-08-03 13:06  

#2  So why is the US so interested in maintaining a huge military base in that country?

How many choices do we have? And the example of Saudi Arabia shows the benefit to the ruling family of having American Janissaries on site, even if they can't be ordered around.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-08-03 11:25  

#1  Qatar's ruling family, the al-Thani have been supporting the Muslim Brotherhood for more than thirty years. Since its inception in 1988 it has supported Hamas, a Muslim Brotherhood chapter whose charter demands the extirpation of Israel. The ruling family supplied arms to Libyan Islamist rebels thus fanning the flames of war in Libya. It supplied arms to Islamists operting in Syria. So why is the US so interested in maintaining a huge military base in that country? Why is the State Department enthusiastically supporting the creation of so-called "think tanks" by American leftist institutions? And why is Qatar Hillary Clinton's favorite Gulf country (Google and find out).
Posted by: Fleatch Shitch4438   2016-08-03 09:47  

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