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2025-03-28 Arabia
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Realpolitik: Qatar receives initial US approval to purchase MQ-9 armed drones for nearly $2 billion
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[IsraelTimes] State Department announces its preliminary authorization for the energy-rich nation to buy 8 UAVs, marking a shift in US-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. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
relations.
The State Department approval announced early Thursday for Qatar comes after Doha had been trying to purchase the drones during the Biden administration but hadn’t gotten the OK despite serving as an interlocutor for Washington to the Taliban
...Arabic for students ...
in Afghanistan, Iran’s theocracy and Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip.
Qatar has been a key mediator of the indirect talks between Israel and Hamas during the ongoing war, which began with Hamas’s October 7th, 2023, onslaught.
The immediate approval under US President Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
serves as a far-different starting point for his government’s relations with Qatar — particularly after he initially backed a four-nation boycott of Doha during his first term.
"This proposed sale will support the foreign policy and national security objectives of the United States by helping to improve the security of a friendly country that continues to be an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Middle East," the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said in a statement.
Qatar’s government did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.
Qatar is the second-largest purchaser of US military equipment after Saudi Arabia
 ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
, spending over $26 billion for F-15 fighter jets, Apache attack helicopters, missile defense systems and other gear.
The proposed sale now goes to the US Congress. Lawmakers typically weigh in on such sales and, in some cases, can block them.
Under terms of the sale, Qatar would purchase eight of the drones, as well as hundreds of bombs and missiles to arm the pilotless aircraft with and the equipment necessary to fly them by satellite.
General Atomics Reapers, which cost around $30 million apiece, can fly at altitudes over 40,000 feet (12,100 meters) and have an endurance of more than 30 hours before needing to land.
The aircraft have been flown by both the US military and the CIA over the Middle East for years, in Afghanistan, Iraq and now over Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
during the American bombing campaign there. The drone has a land and sea version.
The initial approval for Qatar, however, comes after the nearby United Arab Emirates has been waiting since 2020 to purchase up to 18 MQ-9 drones as part of a $23 billion deal also including advanced F-35 fighter jets. Trump has a particularly close relationship with the UAE, which reached a diplomatic recognition deal with Israel under his administration in 2020.
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