New Qatari emir Sheikh Tamim 'set to announce reshuffle'

BBC ^ | 6/26/2013 | Staff

[PieterCasparzen]

Qatar's new Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani is set to announce a cabinet reshuffle, a day after taking over from his father Sheikh Hamad, officials say.
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Sheikh Hamad seized power from his father Sheikh Khalifa in a bloodless coup in 1995, with the support of the armed forces and cabinet, and also neighbouring states.
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In 2003, he named Sheikh Tamim - his second son by his second wife Sheikha Moza bint Nasser - as his heir apparent.
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In foreign policy, the emirate is expected to maintain its alliance with the West while at the same time pursuing an activist stance in Syria and other Arab countries.

However, he will also inherit strained relations with some of Qatar's Gulf neighbours, notably Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who have been angered by Qatar's perceived closeness to the influential regional Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood.

The emirate has also tried to increase its diplomatic prestige further afield. Earlier this month, Afghanistan's Taliban movement opened its first office in the capital Doha to facilitate peace talks with the United States.

[PieterCasparzen]

Qatar buddies with Muslim Brotherhood.

Taliban opening an office in Qatar from which to negotiate with the US.

Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani:



Born in 1980

Educated at exclusive Sherborne School and Sandhurst Military Academy in the UK

Replaced his brother as crown prince in 2003

Has held many influential posts, including head of Qatar Investment Authority

"I am happy, smiling, new world order sheikh, a wild and crazy guy, with lots of swingin' big dollar deals going."

Any questions ?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Oh yeah? Well, Sheikh Barack Hussein Muhammad bin Obama II is wilder, crazier and light in the loafers. We got ya beat!

[MetaThought]

I have to wonder, was this related to the coup in Egypt?

[Yosemitest]

The ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF's "BLOOD FOR GAS AND OIL WAR" has already started.

Read this Intelligence Analysis Study:

The geopolitical dimension of Syria, Turkey Israel and the Greater Middle East Energy War
Posted on February 19, 2013

Intelligence Analysis Study

The significant question to be asked at this point is
what could bind Israel, Turkey, Qatar in a form of unholy alliance on the one side,
and Assad’s Syria, Iran, Russia and China on the other side,
in such deadly confrontation over the political future of Syria?
One answer is energy geopolitics.

What has yet to be fully appreciated in geopolitical assessments of the Middle East
is the dramatically rising importance of the control of natural gas to the future
of not only Middle East gas producing countries,
but also of the EU and Eurasia
including Russia as producer and China as consumer.

Natural gas is rapidly becoming the “clean energy” of choice to replace coal and nuclear electric generation across the European Union,
most especially since Germany’s decision to phase out nuclear after the Fukushima disaster.
Gas is regarded as far more “environmentally friendly” in terms of its so-called “carbon footprint.”
The only realistic way EU governments, from Germany to France to Italy to Spain, will be able to meet EU mandated CO2 reduction targets by 2020
is a major shift to burning gas instead of coal.
Gas reduces CO2 emissions by 50-60% over coal.
Given that the economic cost of using gas instead of wind or other alternative energy forms is dramatically lower,
gas is rapidly becoming the energy of demand for the EU, the biggest emerging gas market in the world.

Huge gas resource discoveries in Israel, in Qatar and in Syria combined with the emergence of the EU as the world’s potentially largest natural gas consumer,
combine to create the seeds of the present geopolitical clash over the Assad regime.

Syria-Iran-Iraq Gas pipeline

In July 2011, as the NATO and Gulf states’ destabilization operations against Assad in Syria were in full swing,
the governments of Syria, Iran and Iraq signed an historic gas pipeline energy agreement
which went largely unnoticed amid CNN reports of the Syrian unrest.
The pipeline, envisioned to cost $10 billion and take three years to complete, would run from the Iranian Port Assalouyeh near the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf, to Damascus in Syria via Iraq territory.
Iran ultimately plans then to extend the pipeline from Damascus to Lebanon’s Mediterranean port where it would be delivered to EU markets.
Syria would buy Iranian gas along with a current Iraqi agreement to buy Iranian gas from Iran’s part of South Pars field.
South Pars, whose gas reserves lie in a huge field that is divided between Qatar and Iran in the Gulf,
is believed to be the world’s largest single gas field.
De facto it would be a Shi’ite gas pipeline from Shi’ite Iran via Shi’ite-majority Iraq onto Shi’ite-friendly Alawite Al-Assad’s Syria.

Adding to the geopolitical drama is the fact that the South Pars gas find lies smack in the middle of the territorial divide in the Persian Gulf between Shi’ite Iran and the Sunni Salafist Qatar.
Qatar also just happens to be a command hub for the Pentagon’s US Central Command, headquarters of United States Air Forces Central,
No. 83 Expeditionary Air Group RAF, and the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing of the USAF.
In brief Qatar, in addition to owning and hosting the ANTI-Al-Assad TV station Al-Jazeera, which beams ANTI-Syria propaganda across the Arab world,
Qatar is tightly linked to the US and NATO military presence in the Gulf.
Qatar apparently has OTHER PLANS with their share of the South Pars field than joining up with Iran, Syria and Iraq to pool efforts.
Qatar has NO INTEREST in the success of the Iran-Iraq-Syria gas pipeline,
which would be entirely independent of Qatar or Turkey transit routes to the opening EU markets.
In fact IT IS DOING EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO SABOTAGE IT, UP TO AND INCLUDING ARMING SYRIA'S RAG-TAG “OPPOSITION” FIGHTERS,
MANY OF THEM JIHADISTS sent in from other countries INCLUDING SAUDI ARABIA, PAKISTAN AND LIBYA.

Further adding to QATAR'S DETERMINATION TO DESTROY THE SYRIA-IRAN-IRAQ GAS COOPERATION
is the discovery in August 2011 by Syrian exploration companies of a huge new gas field in Qara
near the border with Lebanon and NEAR TO THE RUSSIAN-LEASED NAVAL PORT OF TARTUS ON THE SYRIAN MEDITERRANEAN. Any export of Syrian or Iranian gas to the EU would go through the Russian-tied port of Tartus.
According to informed Algerian sources, the new Syrian gas discoveries, though the Damascus government is downplaying it, are believed to EQUAL OR EXCEED THOSE OF QATAR.
As Asia Times’ knowledgeable analyst Pepe Escobar pointed out in a recent piece,
Qatar’s scheme calls for export of its huge gas reserves via Jordan’s Gulf of Aqaba,
a country where a Muslim Brotherhood THREAT TO THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE KING IS ALSO THREATENING.
The Emir of Qatar has apparently CUT A DEAL WITH THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD
in which he backs their international expansion
in return for a pact of peace at home in Qatar.
A Muslim Brotherhood regime in Jordan and also in Syria, backed by Qatar, would change the entire geopolitics of the world gas market
suddenly and decisively in Qatar’s favor
AND TO THE DISADVANTAGE OF RUSSIA, SYRIA, IRAN AND IRAQ.
That would also be A STAGGERING NEGATIVE BLOW TO CHINA.
As Escobar points out,
“it’s clear what Qatar is aiming at:
TO KILL THE U.S. $10 billion Iran-Iraq-Syria gas pipeline,
a deal that was clinched even as the Syria uprising was already underway.
Here we see QATAR IN DIRECT COMPETITION WITH both Iran (as a producer) and Syria (as a destination),
and to a lesser extent, Iraq (as a transit country).
It’s useful to remember that TEHRAN AND BAGHDAD ARE ADAMENTLY ÅGAINST REGIME CHANGE IN DAMASCUS.”
He adds, “if there’s regime change in Syria – helped by the Qatari-proposed invasion – things get much easier in Pipelineistan terms.
A more than probable Muslim Brotherhood (MB) post-Assad regime would more than welcome a Qatari pipeline.
And that would make an extension to Turkey much easier.”

WORLD WAR III is coming, quicker than you think.
It's going to go NUCLEAR real fast.

Read your Bible (especially about "the remnant of Syria" and "the king of the north", "the king of the south" ) !

[PieterCasparzen]

In post #4 on this thread there's a story about this guy:

Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a key MB figure,

which says he is in Qatar and very close to the emir of Qatar.

Muslim Brotherhood worked on Egypt if you recall, so yes.

Actually, all the "revolutions" are related in that they are all CIA-run operations, run through these various groups.

Yes, MB has been a tool of Anglo-American intelligence since its inception.

MB was a creation of Britain's spy agency MI6.

[Yosemitest]

It's about oil and gas.
Obama wants to trade American blood for Muslim Terrorist to have access to the Leviathan Natural Gas Field. It's already been verified by several sources that Saudi Prince Bandar provided chemical weapons for an Al-Qaeda linked terrorist group which they blame for the August 21 chemical attack in the region.
Why?
Because the Muslims dont want Christians in their area, and they certainly don;t want them to have the oil and gas, and the wealth that comes from that.

That source said:

" As per the US Geological Survey (USGS) estimates, the entire Leviathan Basin holds a mean approximation of 1.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil and a mean of 122 trillion cubic feet of recoverable gas.

The Leviathan gas field's natural gas reserves are estimated to be about 17 trillion cubic feet (tcf). Besides natural gas, the field is said to contain 600 million barrels of oil beneath the gas layer. "

Another source said:

" Two years ago, in June 2010, the Leviathan, the largest gas field in the Eastern Mediterranean that stretches from Egypt to Syria was discovered by Houston Texas based Noble Energy. The natural gas reserves in that find that are in Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian territorial watersM are estimated to be something in the range of 25 trillion cubic feet (Tcf). Some experts are estimating that there might also be up to 600 million barrels of oil. And that is not all. Preliminary exploration has confirmed similarly impressive reserves of gas and oil in the waters off Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Syria.

That discovery is now causing enormous political, geopolitical as well as economic consequences. "

So now, the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF tells us something that HE KNOWS is ENTIRELY FALSE, because he wants the oil and gas to be controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood and he's wanting to take out the competition that Saudi Arabia is having from Syria in oil revenues.

Again, Putin is VERY CONCERNED about WHO will sell oil and gas to Europe and had a deal with Assad about his oil pipe line.

The United Nations wants to "Rise In Power".
I'm not saying it's about U.S. oil and gas concerns.
It's about RUSSIA's concerns, China's concerns, Saudi Arabia's concerns, Iran's concerns, Iraq's concerns, and Jordan's concerns.
But Russia will be the main player, and it's submarines, aircraft, and weapons will put the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF to shame.
This is none of our business.
The Kenyan Turd has no U.S. National Security Interest there AT ALL !
But Satan's servant, Obama, doesn't care about the law, or our precious resources and Nation Treasure of American blood.
DAMN HIM. DAMN HIM TO HELL!

[MurrietaMadman]

Educated at exclusive Sherborne School and Sandhurst Military Academy in the UK

Has held many influential posts, including head of Qatar Investment Authority

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Sounds an awful lot like Ms. Assad, too.

[Justa]

IMO it’s related to Syria if anything.

Syrian MB fail = Qatari pipeline-through-Syria fail.

[PieterCasparzen]

Partly about the pipeline.

But to say it's only about that ignores the work for a decade or more that's been slowly going on by top leadership at the CIA/State Dept towards "bringing democracy" to the region by creating the opposition: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, etc.

The pro-US middle eastern governments are basically vassals for the real Anglo-American financial power elites, which for all intents and purposes have always run the CIA from its inception. These "financial oligarchs" have always had the top level of the CIA at their disposal for any wacky nutty project they want to secretly execute.

This post gives some background:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3060357/posts

All these mideast revolutions are desired by the oligarchs because the local rulers refused to give in to Western central banking and economic and cultural domination.

Once the right puppet is put in place, the central bank gets set up, the investment comes in, the sovereign wealth fund starts investing in US and European investments, the central bank starts buy US Treasury debt, the US big ag companies take over their food business, the state's physical gold is handed over to the the Fed, BOE or BIS, they submit to WHO (their healthcare system), WTO, buying Caterpillar tractors, Bechtel construction (like Qatar's brand new Hamad International Airport),etc.

Oil and gas are part of the picture in Syria, but there's more.

Right now the oligarchs have too many US Treasury bonds to sell and they need buyers for basically a trillion worth more every year.

[SunkenCiv]

Yes, the old sheikh was running the country out of money supporting those bone-idle bums running Egypt; as soon as the plug was pulled, the military made its move. Of course, that *may* have been a huge coincidence.

[SunkenCiv]

Latest Blow to Brotherhood: Sheikh Qaradawi Evicted from Qatar, Brotherhood Offices Closed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3039349/posts

[bert]

That is perhaps the best analysis I have seen.

Therein lies the gist of the matter.

In my mind, where the word Qatar is used, substitute Gulf Cooperation Council to get the full picture.

The struggle is between the Gulf Arabs and Iran. Qatar has been designated to take the lead, to be the front man.

The issue is money vs religion

[bert]

———Because the Muslims dont want Christians in their area, -——

Drivel...... money is the issue, not religion. To attempt to insert such nonsense into your well researched post detracts from what otherwise is truth

[MurrietaMadman]

Money, pipelines, Sunni, Shiite, oil, gas... you say tomato, she says tomahto. They are all parts of a forest puzzle we think we understand after we connect a few pieces of it together and see a tree.

Here’s some compelling bread crumbs laid out ten years ago in “The Pentagon’s New Map”, by Thomas P.M. Barnett and explained through prophecy goggles.

http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1833.cfm

Ignore it if you must but you owe it to yourself, friends and family to understand the who what where and why of malevolent events designed with one thing in mind, the subjugation of mankind.

[dfwgator]

We didn’t come here to look for trouble,
We just came here to do
The Qatari Reshuffle.

[Yosemitest]

You have well thought out remarks.
It reminds me of Deuteronomy 28 where it is promised us:

"... there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen,
and no man shall buy you. "

Our Us Treasury debt has become unmanageable, INTENTIONALLY to "Collapse the System".
Our Treasury Bonds will become worth less and less, until they become dedsired by NO ONE. THAT is what Obama and his Puppet Master are doing, and more for our destruction.

[Yosemitest]

If you think religion has nothing to do with the issue, THINK AGAIN !
Go research “The Global Islamic Civilization: The Power of a Nation Revived.

Also take a look at:

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/muslim-group-wipe-christianity-from-face-of-earth/#tqEQitz3YdKfMEtV.99

[bert]

The wacko yahoos might be taking advantage but the real players are not.

[Yosemitest]

Dream on!