Word: qatar
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...return to anarchy and criminal killing." For its part, Iran, whose Muslims belong mainly to the Shi'ite branch of Islam, has backed members of the Northern Alliance representing Afghanistan's Shi'ite minority. On the sidelines of last week's meeting of the Organization of Islamic Conference in Qatar, Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi conferred with his Pakistani counterpart, Abdul Sattar, and outlined Tehran's minimum requirement: a broad-based government that guarantees minority rights...
...Prior to Sept. 11, we did not realize that we were in a propaganda war, but we were," says Richard Bulliet, professor of history at Columbia University and a former director of the university's Middle East Institute. It is a war fought in news studios in Qatar and with editorials, sermons and press conferences. It is a war that the U.S. needs to fight not only to stanch the supply of extremists willing to die to murder Americans but also to shore up nervous moderate Arab allies, who fear their people may turn on them for supporting the bombing...
...this time, CNN is not on the frontlines. This time, America does not have a monopoly on information. Instead, the role of the world’s primary information gatherer has been thrust upon al-Jazeera-a Qatar-based, Arabic-language satellite news station-the only news station with a bureau in Kabul...
...opposition leader Ahmed Shah Masood two days before the Sept. 11 terror attacks by sending two kamikazes disguised as journalists to a press conference, with a bomb hidden in their TV camera. And yet here is bin Laden agreeing to be interviewed by CNN, via questions sent through the Qatar-based Al Jezeera network to whom the fugitive terrorist has until now granted exclusive access. Bin Laden's answers will be taped on video - no doubt with all the standard props such as the camouflage flak jacket, the Kalashnikov propped up against the wall and the "cave" backdrop - and forwarded...
...million BPD come from the Persian Gulf. Not surprisingly, we get 1.6 million BPD from Saudi Arabia, our primary supplier in the region. Quite surprisingly, we buy 0.6 million BPD from Iraq, presumably under restrictive aid-for-oil programs. The remainder is supplied by nations like Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, making the Persian Gulf account for 22 percent of U.S. imports. Interestingly, this means that one of the primary justifications of the Gulf War—that we are dependent on oil from Kuwait—is entirely spurious, as these consumption patterns roughly hold...