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Niin on Sauditkin Turkin hyvä ystävä.Miten en ole yllättynyt että Turkkilaiset on hyvää pataa Qatarin kanssa
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Noissa maissa on hyvä vaan kun porukka lähtee ulkomaille töihin. Kotimaassa ei ole töitä ja kotona kukaan ei kaipaa tai ole huolissaan.Ovatkohan Intia, Nepal, Filippiinit ja Pakistan huolissaan kansalaisistaan, jotka muodostavat kukin merkittävän osan Qatarin väestöstä?
Ehkä siinä on syy että Qatarilla on läheiset suhteet Iraniin. Sekä Trumpin taustajoukot että Saudi Arabia haluavat Iranin asiat pois pelistä.
Noissa maissa on hyvä vaan kun porukka lähtee ulkomaille töihin. Kotimaassa ei ole töitä ja kotona kukaan ei kaipaa tai ole huolissaan.
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Koska The Financial Times on maksumuurin takana, postaan ZeroHedgen copypaste-jutun.
Eli tämä Qatarin ja Saudien välien huononeminen johtuu siitä, että Qatarin kuningashuoneen jäseniä oli jäänyt terojen panttivangeiksi, ja Qatar oli maksanut miljardin teroille vapauttamista vastaan.
Uudessa "terojen kanssa ei neuvotella eikä niille ainakaan anneta miljardia"-maailmanjärjestyksessä siis ihan oikein eristetty.
Törkeä temppu Qatarilta.
The Shocking Trigger Behind Today's Gulf Scandal: Qatar Paid Al-Qaeda, Iran $1BN In Hostage Deal
by Tyler Durden
Jun 5, 2017 2:21 PM http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-...ndal-qatar-paid-al-qaeda-iran-1bn-hostage-dea
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The FT has unveiled what its believes is the key trigger behind the shocking overnight collapse in diplomatic relations between Qatar and its Gulf neighbors. According to the FT, the catalyst that forced the Saudis and their allies to unveil the cut in diplomatic and economic ties, is that Qatar allegedly paid up to $1 billion to Iran and al-Qaeda affiliates "to release members of the Gulf state’s royal family who were kidnapped in Iraq while on a hunting trip, according to people involved in the hostage deal"; the secret deal was allegedly one of the triggers behind Gulf states’ dramatic decision to cut ties with Doha.
The details of the payoff: "around $700m was paid both to Iranian figures and the regional Shia militias they support, according to regional government officials. They added that $200m to $300m went to Islamist groups in Syria, most of that to Tahrir al-Sham, a group with links to al-Qaeda."
A regional Arab official said the total paid to jihadi groups was closer to $300m. “So, if you add that up to the other $700m they paid to Iran and its proxies, that means Qatar actually spent about a billion dollars on this crazy deal,” he said.
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The Iraqi Shia militia commanders in Iraq, all from hardline Iranian-backed groups, said that, to their knowledge, Iran had obtained around $400m after giving them a payment they would not disclose. They agreed to share some details because they were unhappy about their share of the payment.
“They [the Iranians] took the lion’s share,” said a member of one of the Iranian-backed Shia militias in Iraq. “That’s caused some of us to be frustrated, because that was not the deal.”
The "ransom payments are the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said one Gulf observer.
Not to be confused with the Obama administration secretly airlifting crates full of $1.7 billion in cash to Tehran to release five US hostages held by Iran, the FT writes that commanders of militant groups and government officials in the region told the Financial Times that "Doha spent the money in a transaction that secured the release of 26 members of a Qatari hunting party in southern Iraq and about 50 militants captured by jihadis in Syria."
By their telling, Qatar paid off two of the most frequently blacklisted forces of the Middle East in one fell swoop: an al-Qaeda affiliate fighting in Syria and Iranian security officials.
If nothing else, at least Qatar got a better bang for the physical buck, at $38 million per hostage, compared to the $340 million the Obama administration paid for the five US hostages released by Tehran.
While there is no official evidence, the FT adds that the deal, which was concluded in April, heightened concerns among Qatar’s neighbours about the small gas-rich state’s role in a region plagued by conflict and bitter rivalries, which however is at least somewhat confusing: after all it was well-known since the Podesta emails that even the US state department had confirmed that both Saudi Arabia and Qatar were the two primary funders of the Islamic State and various Jihidaist groups in the region. Recall from our October 2016 post:
In a leaked email sent on August 17, 2014 by Hillary Clinton to her current campaign manager, John Podesta, who back then was counselor to Barack Obama, she admitted that Qatar and Saudi Arabia "are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region."
The email, which was sent just days after the US launched it "temporary" air campaign in Syria, which has now extended over two years, represents an eight-point plan laying out ideas how to defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Clinton’s email said that the United States should engage in "military operations against these very irregular but determined forces" by "making proper use of clandestine/special operations resources, in coordination with airpower, and established local allies" such as Kurdish forces.
Having confirmed the role of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Hillary then states that "we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia" and recommends to step up US commitment to the Kurdish Regional Government or KRG. "The Qataris and Saudis will be put in a position of balancing policy between their ongoing competition to dominate the Sunni world and the consequences of serious U.S. pressure. By the same token, the threat of similar, realistic U.S. operations will serve to assist moderate forces in Libya, Lebanon, and even Jordan, where insurgents are increasingly fascinated by the ISIL success in Iraq."
In any case, last year's revalation appears to have been "news" to Saudi Arabia - the other named source of funding to ISIS, and on Monday, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain took the extraordinary step of cutting off diplomatic ties and transport links to Qatar, alleging the country fuels extremism and terrorism.“
The FT further notes that "Doha denies it backs terrorist groups and dismissed the blockade by its neighbours as “founded on allegations that have no basis in fact”. It said it could not immediately respond to a request for comment on the hostage deal. But a person close to the Qatari government acknowledged that “payments” were made. The person was unaware of the amounts or where the money went."
Doha has a history of reaching out to all kinds of controversial groups, from rebels in Sudan’s Darfur region to the Taliban in Afghanistan and Hamas in Gaza. Qatar touts itself as a neutral player that can act as an intermediary in regional conflicts. But its critics, notably Saudi Arabia and the UAE, allege it also uses such interventions to play both sides and fund radical Islamist groups, most recently in Libya and Syria. And to Doha’s critics, the hostage deal was further evidence of that role.
In an amusing twist, one FT source - a Syrian opposition figure who has worked with an al-Qaeda mediator on hostage swaps in Syria. - adds that "if you want to know how Qatar funds jihadis, look no further than the hostage deal.... And this isn’t the first — it is one of a series since the beginning of the war."
Those who spoke to the FT said the deal highlighted how Qatar has allegedly used hostage payments to bankroll jihadis in Syria. But to its Gulf neighbours, the biggest issue is likely to be the fact that Doha could have paid off their main regional rival, Iran, which they accuse of fuelling conflicts in the Arab world.
This particular saga began when an Iranian-backed Iraqi Shia militia, known as Kata’eb Hizbollah, kidnapped the Qataris in December 2015. Three Iraqi militia leaders say the hostages were held in Iran.
Kata’eb Hizbollah is an Iraqi group but it is seen as having links with Iran’s main regional proxy, Hizbollah, the Lebanese militant group. The latter is helping Iran back Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, in his country’s six-year conflict.
It gets better: the hostage transaction was also linked to a separate agreement, signed in March 2017, to facilitate the evacuation of four mutually besieged towns in Syria — two surrounded by jihadi forces and two besieged by Shia militias — according to the FT's sources: "Syrian rebels and diplomats." One western diplomat said the arrangement provided Qatar the “cover” to finance the hostage deal.
“Iran and Qatar had long been looking for a cover to do this [hostage] deal, and they finally found it,” he said.
According to two opposition figures with close contact with the groups paid, Qatar used the evacuation arrangement to pay $120-$140m to Tahrir al-Sham. Another $80m, they said, went to the Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham. “The Qataris pay anyone and everyone, to what end? They have only brought about our ruin,” said a Syrian rebel commander, who gave details about the payments but asked not to be identified.
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Going back to our analogy of Obama dumping crates of cash - anywhere between $400 million and $1.7 billion - in Iran, it appears this time was not that different:
Another confusing chapter of the deal is that Haidar al-Abadi, Iraqi prime minister, said in April his government had seized hundreds of millions of dollars, which Iraqi officials said arrived on Qatari planes “illegally”. It is not clear if this is money is part of the sums mentioned above, or an additional amount.
The punchline: “The money all came in suitcases, can you imagine this?” said one senior official.
And while Qatar has now been scapegoated for funding Al-Qaeda and ISIS, something most have known for years, a question emerges: does this mean that Saudi Arabia - another chronic supporter of terrorism in the region and around the globe - is now off the hook. That would be problematic in light of Saudi Arabia's own on the record admission that it itself created Daesh, or ISIS, which however it allegedly did only in response to Obama's disastrous policy in the region. From the Financial Times:
After the Iraqi city of Mosul fell to a lightning Isis offensive in 2014, even the late Prince Saud al-Faisal, the respected Saudi foreign minister, remonstrated with John Kerry, US secretary of state, that “Daesh [Isis] is our [Sunni] response to your support for the Da’wa” — the Tehran-aligned Shia Islamist ruling party of Iraq.
Vaikea nähdä että jenkit puuhailisivat jotain Qatarin vastaista myöskään. Juurihan he hyväksyivät yli 20 miljardin dollarin asekaupat Qatariin.
PERSIANLAHDELLA sijaitseva Qatar on kaaoksen partaalla sen jälkeen kun joukko merkittävimpiä arabimaita katkaisi välinsä Qatariin. Asukkaat ovat hamstranneet elintarvikkeita peläten, että ruoasta tulee pulaa, koska Qatarin elintarvikehuolto perustuu melko suurelta osalta tuontiin.
”Ihmiset ovat rynnänneet marketteihin rohmuamaan ruokaa, varsinkin tuontiruokaa. Se on kaaos, en ole koskaan nähnyt mitään tällaista”, sanoi Qatarin pääkaupungissa Dohassa asuva Eva Tobaji uutistoimisto Reutersille.
Saudi-Arabia, Egypti, Arabiemiirikunnat, Bahrain ja Jemen katkaisivat maanantaina diplomaattisuhteet Qatariin väittäen, että Qatar horjuttaa alueen vakautta muun muassa rahoittamalla terroristeja.
Qatar on kiistänyt väitteet. Qatarin ulkoministeri Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani syyttää tilanteesta ainakin mediaa. Hän sanoi qatarilaiselle Al Jazeera -uutiskanavalle, että media on levittänyt valheita Qatarin toiminnasta.
QATARIN välirikko naapurien ja samaan Persianlahden maiden GCC-liittoumaan kuuluvien liittolaisten kanssa merkitsee Qatarille monenlaisia vaikeuksia. Esimerkiksi Saudi-Arabia on perunut toimiluvan Qatar Airways -lentoyhtiöltä ja käskenyt sen sulkemaan toimistonsa Saudi-Arabiassa kahden vuorokauden kuluessa, kertoo uutistoimisto AFP.
Saudi-Arabia on myös pannut Qatarin vastaisen rajan kiinni. Se on Qatarin ainoa maaraja, sillä Qatar on Saudi-Arabiaan rajoittuva niemimaa.
Ainoalla Qatariin vievällä maaraja-asemalla Salwassa ei ollut tiistaina ihmis- eikä tavaraliikennettä lukuun ottamatta qatarilaisia, jotka saivat mennä kotimaahansa, kertoi paikalla käynyt saudiarabialainen Al Arabiya -uutiskanava. Normaalisti 40 prosenttia Qatarin elintarviketuonnista ja 60 prosenttia rakennustarviketuonnista kulkee Al Arabiyuan mukaan kyseisen raja-aseman läpi.
Diplomaattisen takalukon vaikutusten laajuutta kuvaa sekin, että esimerkiksi Filippiinit on kieltänyt filippiiniläisiä vierastyöläisiä lähtemästä Qatariin, koska pelkää tilanteen ”heijastusvaikutuksia”. Asiasta kertoo Reuters. Filippiineillä vierastyöläisten lähettäminen vauraisiin Persianlahden maihin on tärkeä tulonlähde.
KUWAIT ja Turkki ovat pyrkineet välittäjiksi Qatarin ja sen kiistakumppanien suhteiden selvittelemisessä.
Kuwaitin emiiri Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah lähti tiistaina ”veljelliselle vierailulle” Saudi-Arabiaan kertoo Kuwaitin valtiollinen uutistoimisto Kuna. Reutersin mukaan hänen on määrä keskustella Saudi-Arabian kuninkaan Salmanin kanssa kiistasta Qatarin kanssa.
Kuwait on toinen kahdesta Persianlahden arabimaiden GCC-liittouman jäsenmaasta, jotka ovat vielä väleissä Qatarin kanssa. Toinen on Oman.
Myös Turkin presidentti Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on keskustellut kiistan keskeisten osapuolten kanssa etsien ratkaisua kiistaan, kertoi Erdoğanin tiedottaja AFP:n mukaan.
Asiasta lausui tiistaina myös Yhdysvaltojen presidentti Donald Trump. Hän kommentoi tilannetta Twitterissä. Trump näyttää kokevan, että Persianlahden arabimaiden toiminta olisi jollain tavoin kytköksissä hänen toukokuiseen vierailuunsa Saudi-Arabiassa.
”Hiljattaisella vierailullani Lähi-itään lausuin, ettei Radikaalin Ideologian [isot alkukirjaimet Trumpin] rahoittaminen voi jatkua. Johtajat viittasivat Qatariin - katsokaa!”
QATARIN tilanne on odotetusti vaikuttanut myös öljyn maailmanmarkkinahintaan, mutta ei välttämättä siihen suuntaan kuin aluksi odotettiin. Saudi-Arabia ilmoitti maanantaina korottavansa hintojaan, mutta tiistaina öljytynnyrin hinta laski alle viidenkymmenen dollarin.
Syynä hinnan laskuun oli Reutersin mukaan huoli siitä, että kiista saattaa haitata öljyntuottajamaiden järjestön Opecin pyrkimyksiä pitää hintaa korkealla.
Yhdysvaltalaistutkijoiden mukaan venäläiset hakkerit ovat levittäneet valeuutisia, jotka ovat lietsoneet diplomaattista kriisiä Qatarin ja sen lähimaiden välille...
http://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/201706072200190759_ul.shtml
No huh! Kriisi laukesi kuin itsestään ja Status quo palautunee tämän päivän aikana.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...ted-fake-news-story-that-led-to-crisis-reportUS intelligence officials believe Russian hackers planted a false news story that prompted Saudi Arabia and several allies to sever relations with Qatar, according to CNN.
FBI experts visited Qatar in late May to analyse an alleged cyber breach that saw the hackers place the fake story with Qatar’s state news agency, the US broadcaster said.
Saudi Arabia then cited the false report as part of its reason for instituting a diplomatic and economic blockade of Qatar, the report said. The blockade was joined by several other Gulf states and has spiralled into the worst diplomatic crisis for the region in decades.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...press-tory-uk-release-sensitive-a7773146.htmlThe leaders of the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats have urged Prime Minister Theresa May to allow the publication of a “sensitive” government report into terror funding in the UK which allegedly focuses on the role of Saudi Arabia.
Calls for the release of the Home Office inquiry into the sources of jihadi propaganda materials and funding are growing more vocal after Saturday’s terror attack in London Bridge, in which seven people were killed.
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