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Qatar Accuses UAE Of Supporting 9/11 World Trade Center Attacks As Gulf Crisis DeepensBy Jack Moore On 6/20/17 at 7:10 AM Qatar has accused the United Arab Emirates of supporting the 9/11 attacks in New York as a diplomatic war of words between the tiny oil-rich state and its Sunni Arab neighbours continues.Several Gulf countries and Egypt cut transport and diplomatic ties with Qatar on June 5, accusing it of supporting radical Islamist groups. But Doha has accused the UAE of hypocrisy, arguing that it has had prior involvement in acts of extremism.“Emiratis, not Qataris, were among the hijackers who flew planes into the Twin Towers,’’ Sheikh Meshal bin Hamad Al Thani, Qatar’s ambassador to the U.S., said in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal Sunday.“The UAE was singled out in the 9/11 Commission’s report for its role in laundering money to terrorists.”Continued: http://www.newsweek.com/qatar-accuses-uae-supporting-911-attacks-gulf-crisis-deepens-627485
Qatar is the world’s biggest exporter of liquified natural gas but the embargo by its neighbors and fellow Sunni states has forced it to look elsewhere for revenue streams and transport links.
The fur flies, interesting article.