[Sabertooth]

When Shakir was arrested in Qatar on Sept. 17, 2001, he was carrying phone numbers of the 1993 World Trade Center bombers' safe houses and contacts, as well as information relating to Operation Bojinka, a plot devised by trade center bomber Ramzi Yousef that became the blueprint for the 9/11 attacks.

The Qataris released Shakir after a brief detention and he fled to Jordan, where he was re-arrested. Inexplicably, however, the CIA signed off on his release after Amnesty International complained.

But I keep hearing what a great ally Wahabbi Qatar is in the WoT.

[Torie]

YOu seem to have a hard on for Qatar. Are you blaming the government for its free lancing perps? Some of these states have this problem of trying to steer between curbing the perps and not destabilizing themselves. What the play on the ground in Qatar is I don't know. I do know the elite in Kuwait is far more pro American than its citizens, in general.