It seems there is a coup attempt (unconfirmed) in qatar by the 'Liberation Front' which is run by a family member of the royal house.
Coup attempt in Qatar.
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not not really but in the last hour the Emir called Iran and Turkey, Erdogan called directly with Putin it seems.
It was to be expected wasn't it. Is there any other source that they overthrew the current emir other than writing this statement?
Turkey & Iran are going to be increasing support for Qatar. if the emir surives the coup Qatar will definitely be hostile to the GCC and the Saudis will have created another enemy on their border
legit Saudis are one of the dumbest governments I have ever seen.
My feeling, perception of this situation is that something out of ordinary has taken place and behind the scenes negotiations have failed totally. I'm not buying the official story.
The GCC doesn't operate like this...especially all out media warfare... goes against the established norms of the ruling families' modus operandi...
The GCC doesn't operate like this...especially all out media warfare... goes against the established norms of the ruling families' modus operandi...
- UNCONFIRMED; Turkish and Iranian Navy preparing itself to sail to Doha and strenghten the government.
Qatar is being isolated because they've been at odds with KSA ever since 2013/2014 over the ousting of Morsi in Egypt (Morsi was part of the muslim brotherhood if you care to remember) following the arab spring. The irony is that until that point the GCC (gulf cooperation council) had relatively warm(ish) ties with the muslim brotherhood(MB). After all, it was KSA which gave them a home in the late 50s/early 60s when Nasser kicked them out of Egypt, and the served as part of the conservative religious intelligence of the various emirates & kingdoms. The relationship betwen MB and KSA was relatively solid until the late 90s/early 2000s and gave birth a hybrid of sort - the sawah movement (the awakening) which merged the pan-arabism of the brotherhood with the wahhabi/salafi tenets of traditional KSA. The problem was that KSA&pals were quite happy to export/finance sawah and muslim brotherhood ideology across the globe to extend their influence and destabilise shia-backed states...BUT they were not happy about it happening on their own turf. The sawah movement eventually started turning on the hand that fed them, and KSA's grand mufti already started to publicly scold MB as early as 2002. The dodgy relation lasted until the arab spring (which the gulf states originally happily supported to destabilise rivals)...but when Morsi came out on top as president, that was not something KSA desired. MB is supposed to destabilise, not become the new status quo.
Qatar fell out of line with the rest of the GCC over it because as a city-state and technically the richest gulf nation, the doha shura (council) sees the MB as a force for good in terms of qatari influence thru aljazeera. There is also the tensions between the AlThani & AlSaud royal families ever since 1971, and the yemen war is illustrating that inter-rivalry. Dropping oil prices and Iranian-Qatar relations also factor in
Sxb all I did was Google fat rich arab and made it my profile picture
Did you not know that is the former Emir, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani?
Y-Yes I knew
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