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To: Mark17

Rockefeller history in Qatar.
http://www.cbq.qa/en/aboutus/our-history/pages/our-history-in-depth.aspx

The support of Chase Manhattan

The American banking giant Chase Manhattan Bank was selected for a management-services contract. Alan Mitchell, an Englishman fluent in Bedouin Arabic and a loyal friend to Hussain Alfardan, had worked with the founding board members on the establishment of the bank and joined Chase Manhattan to serve as Commercial Bank’s first General Manager.

Chase Manhattan provided training and general managers, including the American Donald Hayek, who succeeded Mitchell. At the time, Chase Manhattan, under the leadership of David Rockefeller, was pursuing an aggressive campaign of globalisation.

Rockefeller travelled to Qatar in his private jet, visiting both the Emir and the Bank itself, even financing a USD 350 million deal for four industrial projects, a coup later dubbed the ‘1977 Deal of the Year’ by Institutional Investor.

Developing a close working relationship that was cemented by means of fishing trips and private dinners, Alfardan recalled Rockefeller’s influence in a 2008 interview:

‘He taught me that one must be patient and must fight for what he wants and believes in. He also taught me that one must be strong and determined.’

Initially, the Bank focused on Wholesale Banking and Corporate Banking services, targeting local merchants. Sheikh Ali bin Jabor, the well-liked and respected founding Chairman who was also a keen poet, and Hussain Alfardan would visit the Bank daily, even vetting potential clients.

Today, Commercial Bank, still under Alfardan’s direction (he is fondly referred to as the ‘Godfather of the Bank’ by members of the board), occupies an ultra-modern 22-storey office plaza in Doha, a far cry from its humble beginnings.

Abed Aziz, the first staff member to be hired by the Bank, sheds valuable light on the astonishing rate of the Bank’s growth when he says, ‘I started with him [Hussain Alfardan] when he only had one shop. From 1 January 1975 for four months we stayed in his offices.’ At the time, the Bank had only one other employee.


32 posted on 07/23/2014 7:18:59 PM PDT by mgist (.)
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To: mgist

Thank you.


33 posted on 07/23/2014 7:27:20 PM PDT by Mark17 (Obama & Nero? Both Emperors. The difference is Nero plays a fiddle, while Obama plays Minnesota Fats)
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To: mgist
Appparently after Obama's suppory, they got too powerfull.

http://www.barenakedislam.com/2014/05/05/now-even-qatar-a-muslim-brotherhood-stronghold-is-expelling-muslim-brotherhood-leaders/

MAY52014 Now, even Qatar, a Muslim Brotherhood stronghold, is expelling Muslim Brotherhood leaders So, why are there still so many Muslim Brotherhood operatives working in the Obama Regime?


Egypt Independent Sources close to the Muslim Brotherhood said that Qatar has started carrying out the Riyadh agreement which stipulates the country must expel the Brotherhood figures, adding that some of them has already left Doha. The expelled members include Mahmoud Hussein, the group’s secretary general, Gamal Heshmat and Bassem Khafagy. The sources added that Qatari government is working on a list of wanted figures or others involved in activities against the gulf countries or Egypt to turn them in to Gulf Cooperation Council.


A meeting by Qatar with other member states at the Gulf Cooperation Council mid April had reportedly hashed out a solution or the GCC crisis which surfaced when Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates withdrew ambassadors from Doha early March, citing Qatar’s intervention in their domestic affairs.

Qatar hosts a number of Saudi and Muslim Brotherhood activists opposed to their regimes at home. Qatari al-Jazeera Mubasher Misr channel is banned in Egypt and Saudi Arabia for materials critical of both regimes. The recent meeting reportedly discussed requests by Saudis and the UAE to deport Muslim Brotherhood figures. Both kingdoms are allies with the Egyptian interim authorities that had ousted the Brotherhood regime last year.

An Algerian newspaper reported on Sunday that the country is mulling a proposal to host Islamic Preacher Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawi, head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars The newspaper, which is close to decision-making circles in Algeria, said that the Algerian foreign minister was informed about the decision during his visit to gulf countries. It added that it was intended that Qaradawi be hosted in Mauritania, Tunisia or Morocco. However, all were ruled out due to lack of guarantees of personal security to the sheikh. The newspaper quoted an anonymous source as saying that Algeria will condition, in case of acceptance, that the sheikh does not intervene in any political activities.

34 posted on 07/23/2014 7:31:59 PM PDT by mgist (.)
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