POLS 157 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Terrorism Financing, Al-Qaeda, Counter-Terrorism
24 Feb 2020
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Qatar and the uae were british protectorates with low populations and few resources: economies based on pearling and fishing, gained independence in 1971 when british decided it couldn"t maintain control over its empire any longer. Qatar and the uae were concerned with this because they could be absorbed by. Qatar has a big role in opec because of their natural gas and oil reserves: participated in operation desert storm on the us side, gaining security of us aid and alliance. Aljazeera operates out of qatar as an independent news media organization. Us has concerns over qatar"s terrorist financing, which they denied as well as terrorist leaders living there: they host the al-udeid air base, the command center for the us"s middle east strategy operations. Lots of us investment and imports from us in qatar: also try to build themselves up as a tourist destination.
