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...forces in Iraq, establishing in its place a long-term, bilateral security agreement directly between Iraq and the United States. And while the proposed details have yet to emerge, similar U.S. agreements with other nations in the region - including Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar - have all involved a 10-year "protection" period, at minimum...
...About 1,800 U.S. military personnel, mostly with the Air Force, live on military bases here. And the U.A.E. Port of Jebel Ali, one of the few docks capable of handling a U.S. aircraft carrier, gets more visits from Navy ships than any other port outside the United States. Qatar signed a bilateral defense pact with the United States in 1992. Today, the sprawling al-Udeid airbase there is home to roughly 6,000 troops. Another 3,400 or so troops live at As-Sayliyah, a massive storage facility where the United States keeps things like tanks and Bradley fighting...
Twenty billion dollars in new U.S. arms shipments for Saudi Arabia and neighboring gulf states like Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the U.A.E. Another $13 billion in weaponry for Egypt. And Israel, ever mindful of maintaining an edge over its Arab neighbors, could get $30 billion worth of new U.S. equipment...
...Probably no one outside of al-Marri's wife and kids in Peoria, Illinois, prefers the last option. A citizen of Qatar, al-Marri allegedly trained at an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, palled around with Osama bin Laden and came to the U.S. on Sept. 10, 2001 as a "sleeper agent," a computer hacker bent on disrupting the American financial system. He was arrested at home three months later as a material witness in the investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks. Al-Marri denies any connection with al-Qaeda or terrorism, but constitutional issues aside, we might all rest...
Medvedev says gas exporters need to coordinate handling the growing development, production and transportation costs, and technological challenges--and acidly reminds you that only Russia, Qatar and Iran have a long-term supply capability. That's why the U.S. got nervous last month when gas producers met in Qatar. Such an OPEC-like cartel might control as much as 80% of the world's natural-gas reserves and 40% of natural-gas pipeline transportation. He proudly emphasizes Russia's leading role in this coordination due to its resources--and feigns surprise at the U.S. calling it a weapon of blackmail...