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US First Lady Michelle Obama Arrives in Qatar for Speech
ABC ^ | 11/02/15 | ap

Posted on 11/02/2015 1:54:12 PM PST by winoneforthegipper

First Lady Michelle Obama arrives at the Hamad Airport in Doha, Qatar, Nov. 2, 2015.

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama arrived in Qatar on Monday as part of a two-country Mideast tour, with plans to visit a crucial air base in America's war against the Islamic State group and give a speech on the importance of girl's education.

Obama touched down in Doha, the Qatari capital, on Monday night, the state-run Qatar News Agency reported, without elaborating.

While in Doha, she'll visit the al-Udeid air base with comedian and late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien. The base hosts the forward headquarters for U.S. Central Command, as well as aircraft involved in the campaign of airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants in both Syria and Iraq.

Obama is scheduled to give a speech Wednesday on her Let Girls Learn initiative at the 2015 World Innovation Summit for Education, sponsored by the Qatar Foundation. The foundation is chaired by Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al-Missned, former ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani's most high-profile wife.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: conanobrien; jordan; letgirlslearn; michellegraphic; michelleqatar; michellespeech; obama; petra; qatar; queenrania; sharia; unesco; usaid
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To: winoneforthegipper

Get Texas A&M out of Qatar.

21 posted on 11/02/2015 2:28:01 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: Fungi
They will pay people to show up.

The fly in their own astroturf. Qatar probably doesn't even what the building was rented for.

22 posted on 11/02/2015 2:29:59 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: azishot; LucyT

““It” has landed.”

And it’s no eagle.

The wookie will cement the Qatari loyalty to the new self-proclaim Calif of Umma ( not to be mixed up with umma Abedin)

0b0z0’s regime will be the first to recognize the newest Caliphate!


23 posted on 11/02/2015 2:40:11 PM PST by melancholy
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To: Duchess47
Maybe she is carrying a personal message to someone?

NO Maybe about it. The world will find out whats in it in a couple of weeks or months. That is how its done in the world of back door diplomacy. Always has been.

25 posted on 11/02/2015 2:42:22 PM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: winoneforthegipper

Gooney Goo Goo...


26 posted on 11/02/2015 2:51:31 PM PST by mykroar ("Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Otto von Bismarck)
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To: winoneforthegipper

A speech and a meeting with a private banker. Checking on their 401K.


27 posted on 11/02/2015 3:01:59 PM PST by marron
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To: Don Corleone

Lets see; Multiple large military aircraft, military base to land, high value government representative, proxy war...

At the risk of sounding all tin foil hat...

YMMV


28 posted on 11/02/2015 3:09:32 PM PST by themidnightskulker (And then the thread dies... peacefully, in it's sleep....)
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To: Duchess47
Maybe she is carrying a personal message to someone?

Coordination on the progress of the planned Qatari natural gas pipeline through a recalcitrant Syria.

29 posted on 11/02/2015 3:11:07 PM PST by Navy Patriot (America, a Rule of Mob nation)
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To: tumblindice

Come on now Michael is looking hot! You know how BO likes his men.


30 posted on 11/02/2015 3:13:31 PM PST by Bluebeard16
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To: DAC21

“You can’t keep immoral corrupt people down, especially Demonrats”.........

And the crooked repubs are no better. This country needs to set a limit on the number of travels ANY politician or their spouses are allowed to take on our dime. The odumbo’
s have abused their privilege well beyond any limits and should be made to pay for these bogus trips. In this day of technology, what ever happened to teleconferencing?


31 posted on 11/02/2015 3:48:02 PM PST by DaveA37
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To: winoneforthegipper
Think I could get an audience speaking on “how to grow daffodil's in your spare time and loving it”
32 posted on 11/02/2015 4:12:22 PM PST by ronnie raygun (better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it.)
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To: ronnie raygun

12 most luxurious hotels:
http://www.fivestaralliance.com/luxury-hotels/198/middle-east/qatar


33 posted on 11/02/2015 4:20:53 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: ronnie raygun

“”Think I could get an audience speaking on “how to grow daffodil’s in your spare time and loving it””

Just as I was thinking about the crowd that would be interested in “WHY A TWO HOLER IS BETTER THAN A ONE HOLER”, you came along with daffodils....Well, they could dress up the place so plant them!


34 posted on 11/02/2015 4:52:08 PM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“..give a speech on the importance of girl’s education.”

I wonder how much of her speech will be whining about how “people who look like her” are discriminated against and how the white education establishment is keeping her down, blah, blah, blah..like she has done in speeches before.


35 posted on 11/02/2015 5:23:40 PM PST by howlinhound (Live your life so that, when you get up in the morning, Satan says, "Oh Crap!..He's awake" - Unknown)
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