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leveymg

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1. Aside from all the American contract workers in Doha, why would ISIS attack Qatar?

Reply to Hobo (Original post)

Mon Jul 6, 2015, 01:25 PM

Jul 2015

Last edited Mon Jul 6, 2015, 02:03 PM - Edit history (3)

Wasn't Qatar the first state to commit special forces, arms and air strikes to aid the Eastern Libyan Islamists and to al-Nusra in Syria to overthrow those regimes? http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204002304576627000922764650

Didn't these groups aided by Qatar morph into ISIS? http://www.ibtimes.com/jabhat-al-nusra-isis-alliance-could-spread-beyond-damascus-1877819

Isn't Qatar today still the largest external funding source to ISIS? http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/qatar-and-isis-funding-the-u.s.-approach ; http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/world/middleeast/qatars-support-of-extremists-alienates-allies-near-and-far.html?_r=0

Why bite the hand that feeds them?

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Aside from all the American contract workers in Doha, why would ISIS attack Qatar? leveymg Jul 2015 #1

be safe marym625 Jul 2015 #2

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