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In reply to the discussion: Kremlin says secret plans for nuclear torpedo should not have appeared on national news [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)48. Right, NuclearDem. Qatar is with Russia.
When Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani visits the White House on February 24, President Obama will have to contend with a Qatari diplomatic scorecard that has significant marks on both sides of the ledger. Given its historically awkward relations with neighboring Saudi Arabia and its shared ownership with Iran of the world's largest offshore natural gas field, Qatar looks to the United States as its main security guarantor. That has suited the U.S. military, which has used the giant al-Udeid Air Base outside Doha for operations over Iraq and Afghanistan. But Qatar, with a population of around two million, of which only some 10 percent are citizens, has an often quirky tendency to demonstrate its independence. Past sins include parading Stinger missiles illegally acquired from Afghanistan mujahedin, allowing its Aljazeera satellite television channel to broadcast inflammatory and false reports that led to American deaths, and financing terrorism.
-- Simon Henderson
SOURCE: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/uneven-diplomacy-the-u.s.-qatar-relationship
-- Simon Henderson
SOURCE: http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/uneven-diplomacy-the-u.s.-qatar-relationship
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Kremlin says secret plans for nuclear torpedo should not have appeared on national news [View all]
Recursion
Nov 2015
OP
Like The Pentagon does not already have one.....and much worse than that. All that money has to
Fred Sanders
Nov 2015
#1
it's like an uncontrollable nervous twitch. they don't even seem to know they are doing it. nt
uhnope
Nov 2015
#58
You do realize that torps are designed to travel for miles before they detonate don't you?
GGJohn
Nov 2015
#11
We've always destroyed the planet for profit, the problem now is that we can actually
Rex
Nov 2015
#13
Half a trillion dollars a year, year after year, has to be spent...so there is the result....America
Fred Sanders
Nov 2015
#9
Human beings are pathetic creatures. On this one little spinning ball of dirt in
RKP5637
Nov 2015
#44
He doesn't have a point. He just needed an excuse to post JFK conspiracy nonsense again.
NuclearDem
Nov 2015
#47
Probably because folks remember Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Lithuania, Crimea, Ukraine...
FLPanhandle
Nov 2015
#25
In certain people's reality, Holodomor, Priboi, the Purges, the Winter War, and Katin never happened
NuclearDem
Nov 2015
#30
That's Al-Udeid Air Base, which is a Qatari base, part of which is leased to ISAF and the MNF.
NuclearDem
Nov 2015
#35
This information is freely available on Wikipedia and the 379th AEW's website.
NuclearDem
Nov 2015
#43