President Donald Trump on Tuesday both claimed credit for the isolation of Qatar by its West Asian neighbours and endorsed it in a series of tweets on Tuesday, linking it to his recent visit to the region and call for cutting terror financing.
“During my recent trip to the Middle East (West Asia) I stated that there can no longer be funding of Radical Ideology. Leaders pointed to Qatar - look!” the president wrote on Twitter, not mentioning his own country’s ties to Qatar.
The US has a military base in Qatar, Al Udeid Air Base, not far from the country’s capital Doha, which was used by US-led coalition forces for operations against the Islamic Sate in Syria and Iraq and for the war in Afghanistan earlier.
{{/usCountry}}The US has a military base in Qatar, Al Udeid Air Base, not far from the country’s capital Doha, which was used by US-led coalition forces for operations against the Islamic Sate in Syria and Iraq and for the war in Afghanistan earlier.
{{/usCountry}}The president went on to post two more, “So good to see the Saudi Arabia visit with the King and 50 countries already paying off. They said they would take a hard line on funding … extremism, and all reference was pointing to Qatar. Perhaps this will be the beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism!”