Chitchat USA Backed Qatar In Setting Up Taliban Embassy! Uncle Sam Ownself Backstab Own Troops

[JohnTan]

The UAE lobbied US officials to be able to host an office for the Taliban in Abu Dhabi - a milestone that eventually went to Qatar, according to a series of leaked emails from the UAE ambassador to the United States.

Reported by the New York Times, the emails from Yousef al-Otaiba apparently contradict a mounted campaign against Qatar for its alleged support of "terrorist groups".

As part of its attempt to isolate the peninsula, a Saudi-led bloc including the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt has derided Qatar for hosting an office for the Afghan armed group.

The office, which opened in June 2013, was part of a broader US-led effort to facilitate peace talks in Afghanistan - not to support their ideology or the group itself.

The New York Times reported on Monday that Otaiba, the Emirati ambassador to Washington, had received an "angry call" from UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, complaining that the Taliban had ended up in Qatar and not the UAE, according to messages in the ambassador's Hotmail account.

"I got an angry call from [Zayed] saying how come we weren't told," Otaiba wrote to an American official, referring to the decision on choosing Qatar to host the Taliban.

The newspaper obtained another email dated September 12, 2011, in which an Emirati official questioned the US position on the Taliban office's location


"There is an article in the London Times that mentions US is backing setting up a Taliban embassy in Doha," the diplomat, Mohamed Mahmoud al-Khaja, wrote to Jeffrey Feltman, then assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs.

"HH says that we were under the impression that Abu Dhabi was your first choice and this is what we were informed", Khaja said in the email, referring to bin Zayed.

The latest email leak comes from a group called "GlobalLeaks", which is not affiliated with the software developer, GlobaLeaks.

GlobalLeaks told Newsweek that the recent messages are proof of the "biggest hypocrisy" in the Qatar crisis.

Controversial move

Qatar agreed to open the mission for the Taliban with Washington's blessing four years ago.

In 2011, when the emails were sent, the Obama administration was making efforts to hold peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government, as it sought to remove NATO troops from the country.

Most of the troops withdrew in 2014, but peace was not achieved.

The opening of the office enraged the Afghan president at the time, Hamid Karzai, by styling itself as an unofficial embassy for a government-in-exile.

Karzai broke off bilateral talks with the Americans and threatened to boycott any peace process altogether after the Taliban opened the offices with a flag-raising ceremony for the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" - the name of the country under Taliban rule.

That flag has since been removed.

'Qatar's behaviour'

Otaiba has repeatedly criticised Qatar for its alleged alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood and over the opening of another Doha-based office for the Palestinian group Hamas, which was also arranged with US approval.

"What is true is Qatar's behaviour. Funding, supporting, and enabling extremists from the Taliban to Hamas & Qadafi," Otaiba wrote in a tweet on July 17, referring to the late former Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi.

Doha strongly denies all allegations by the Saudi-led bloc as baseless.

Neither the UAE embassy nor the US state department has responded to Otaiba's leaked emails.

Earlier this month, David Petraeus, former CIA chief and army general, said: "Our partners should remember that Qatar - at our request - welcomed delegations from the Taliban and Hamas".

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Last week, the Saudi-led bloc gave Qatar 10 days to comply with 13 demands to end the major diplomatic crisis in the Gulf, insisting, among other things, that Doha shut down Al Jazeera, close a Turkish military base and scale down ties with Iran.

Qatar National Human Rights Committee (NHRC) called on Doha not to accept a list of demands submitted by four Arab countries, stating that it contains conditions that violate human rights conventions and other international and regional agreements.

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Re: USA Backed Qatar In Setting Up Taliban Embassy! Uncle Sam Ownself Backstab Own Tr

The propaganda war from Al Jazeera of course...again it is not Al Jazeera English that is the issue - it is and always has been the Arabic channel.

Anyway, across the gulf (pardon the pun) there are daily articles of this sort from the Emirati press - unfortunately this article is speaking of the reality on the ground - after the Arab Spring Qatar did absorb alot of MB members and Salafists into the various sectors, particularly in the oil and gas projects - the Egyptian MB column in Qatar is very strong as the number of Egyptian expats jumped from 250k in 2010 to about 450k today - and this on the back of falling oil prices and a tigher economy:

How the Muslim Brotherhood manipulated the Qatari regime

Organisation has become a dominant force in Qatar to the extent that it could easily replace the Emir

Samir Salama, Associate Editor

Abu Dhabi: The ideology of Muslim Brotherhood, designated as a terrorist group in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, flows in the blood of the Qatari regime, analysts say.

“For six decades, the Muslim Brotherhood has been working to control the decision making process in Qatar, through education, Islamic endowments and charities and the media,” Dr Abdullah Mohammad Al Shaiba, a leading Emirati analyst, told Gulf News.

Dr Al Shaiba added the terrorist group has managed to rule Qatar through spreading its ideology — affecting change in the beliefs and way of thinking of Qataris and now at least half of the Qatari leaders are members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

“For decades, Qatari children have been taught curricula developed by the Muslim Brotherhood and since 1996 Qatari citizens have been brainwashed round the clock to change their beliefs and thoughts in line with the terrorist ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood,” Dr Al Shaiba said.

About 60 years ago, Qatar’s rulers turned to Abdul Badi Saqr, an Egyptian Islamist and a former student of the Brotherhood founder, Hassan Al Banna, to help run its educational institutions.

In the subsequent years, Qatari officials recruited an influx of Islamist teachers from Egypt.

Dr Al Shaiba said unlike the failed power grab of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and elsewhere, the terrorist group has succeeded in setting up the State of Qatar’s Brotherhood, without openly assuming power in Doha.

“In 1999, the terrorist group dissolved its chapter in Qatar set up in 1974 because it no longer needed it and the state’s institutions headed by members of the Brotherhood had become more than enough to achieve the terrorist group’s goals,” Dr Al Shaiba said.

Dr Al Shaiba warned that the Muslim Brotherhood might soon topple Qatar’s Emir Shaikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani and appoint another member of the ruling family who is closer to the organisation.

Most members of the terrorist movement are recruited during high school or college years and, in many cases, serve in top administrative positions within the Brotherhood’s nationwide structure before being promoted to the Guidance Office, the organisation’s top executive authority.

They also could be nominated for political office to ensure leaders have all been vetted over the course of decades in their willingness to comply with the internal Shura committee’s decisions.

Tharwat Al Kherbawi, a lawyer who has written memoirs exposing the secrets of the Brotherhood after he left the terrorist movement, said Qatar’s Father Emir Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani and the present Emir Shaikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani were schooled on the group’s terrorist ideology by Yousuf Al Qaradawi and Abdul Halim Abu Shoqqa, chief figures of the organisation.

Abu Shoqqa, an educator who arrived in Qatar in 1995, spearheaded the shift in Brotherhood strategy to focus its efforts on education rather than political activity.

He lived and worked as a teacher and headmaster for 12 years.

Al Qaradawi moved to Qatar in 1961 to head the Qatari Secondary School Institute of Religions, before becoming a dean at Qatar University.

He founded the Faculty of Islamic Law at Qatar University in the 1970s, and then went on to become the linchpin for the Qatari ruling family’s designs to disseminate the Brotherhood project throughout the Middle East and North Africa and in Europe, especially from the early 1990s.

“The Muslim Brotherhood is the DNA (genetic information and hereditary characteristics) of Qatar,” Christian Chesnot, a French journalist, and co-author of a book titled ‘Qatar, les Secrets du Coffre-fort’ (Qatar and the secrets of the Safe) recently told Dubai TV.

“Al Qaradawi shaped the Qatari psyche to believe that the Brotherhood is the future of the Arab world,” he said.

“This is why the Qataris supported the Muslim Brotherhood during the so-called Arab Spring movements in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya,” he said.

“Red lines were crossed in Syria, where the Qataris funded Al Nusra Front and other terrorist groups, and in Libya, where they financed and armed terrorist organisations such as Benghazi Defence Brigades and Al Qaida,” Chesnot said.

Dr Mohammad Bin Howaidin, a leading Emirati political analyst, said Doha does not view the Muslim Brotherhood as a danger to Qatar.

“The Muslim Brotherhood is a bargaining chip used by Qatar in its competition with regional powers such as Saudi Arabia and the UAE,” Dr Bin Howadin said.

However, the Brotherhood, he said, will not serve Qatar’s strategic goals in the long run as the group aims to create and rule a worldwide Islamic empire which they call a Caliphate,” Dr Bin Howaidin said.

Dr Tarek Dahroug, a leading Egyptian analyst, said the Muslim Brotherhood has used Qatar as a launch pad into Europe in recent decades. “The Qatari regime, which subscribes to the Wahhabi theological and political creed, first turned to Muslim Brotherhood figures as a way of freeing itself from the decades-long religious and cultural hegemony of Saudi Arabia, bringing in Brotherhood teachers and religious scholars to serve as teachers and imams in mosques and the Qatari Ministry of Education,” Dr Dahrouq said.

Dr Dahroug added Qatar hoped to achieve various goals in the process, including substituting the Saudi ruling structure with that of the Muslim Brotherhood, which it was hoped would be more controllable and whose influence inside Qatar would be easier to contain over the shorter and longer terms.

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