Just a coincidence. Just a coincidence. Just a coincidence. Just a joke. Just a joke. Just a joke. “Qatar diplomat was to meet jailed terrorist,” by Matthew Lee and P. Solomon Banda for The Associated Press, April 8 (thanks to all who sent this in): WASHINGTON — A Qatari diplomat was on his way to […]
Smoking joker on flight to Denver causes fighter jets to scramble
"I’m a joker, I’m a smoker, I’m a midnight toker…" It was all just a joke, you see. Apparently Mohammed Al-Madadi missed all the signs at airport security checkpoints warning against joking, as it could be misunderstood. It was all just a joke. Nothing to see here. “Qatari Diplomat Released after Bomb Scare: Passenger Identified […]
Qatar Rejects U.S. Rights Report
I Know Nothing! An update on this story, from Reuters. DOHA – Qatar insisted its laws prohibited human trafficking and said it was not aware of any such rights violations on Sunday after the Gulf state was criticized in a U.S. report. “These claims are totally unexpected and are something we disagree with completely,” a […]
U.S. criticizes Gulf allies on trafficking
From Reuters via CNN with thanks to Two Stellas. WASHINGTON — The United States criticized four Gulf Arab allies as some of the world’s worst offenders in permitting human trafficking Friday in a rebuke Washington hopes will promote improved human rights in the Middle East. The State Department downgraded Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the […]
New Head of Jihad Inc.?
From ABC News, with thanks to Nicolei: However big a shock a recent suicide bombing in Doha was to the Qataris, it was far from unexpected in Western capitals, where intelligence agencies had discreetly put out a travel warning through their respective embassies. The emirate, a key ally in the Bush administration’s war on terror, […]
Qatar Bomber’s Action Baffles Family, Friends
I have spoken many times of how moderate Muslims can be turned into jihadists by appeals to the Qur’an and Sunnah. This is most likely what happened to this man. From ArabNews, with thanks to Nicolei: CAIRO, 25 March 2005 – Visibly distressed, Muhammad tossed his head in disbelief as he talked of how his […]
Briton killed in Qatar theatre car bomb
This is the same explosion in which Natasha Tynes almost perished. From The Telegraph with thanks to Granny Weatherwax: A car bomb in Doha which demolished a theatre leaving one Briton dead and up to 50 people injured, may be the work of al-Qa’eda, investigators believe. Jonathan Adams died when an explosion rocked the building […]
U.S. warns of possible attack on Qatar hotels
From CNN, : WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United States warned Americans in the Gulf state of Qatar Friday to avoid major hotels in Doha over the next week due to the possibility of a terrorist attack. “The embassy advises Americans to continue to avoid major hotels in Doha during the upcoming week. The embassy is […]
Qatari intellectual: Arabs are Still Unwilling to Accept that They Carried Out 9/11
An evisceration of all the taqiyya and self-deception about 9/11 that is still rampant in the Islamic world. From MEMRI, with thanks to Humphrey Littleton: In the Qatari daily Al-Raya, Dr. Abd Al-Hamid Al-Ansari, former dean of the Faculty of Shari’a at the University of Qatar, criticized the conspiracy theory in the Arab world that […]