Saudi Arabia Has Handed the Emir of Qatar an Opportunity to Redirect History
Paul Craig Roberts
In the event you have noticed the hullabaloo about Qatar and wonder
what it is about, it is about Al Jazeera, a news organization,
established by the Emir who rules the oil and gas sheikdom on the
Persian Gulf. Al Jezeera is far more professional than any news
organization in the West. Al Jazeera’s problem is that it covers the
actual news and tells the truth. This is unacceptable to the Saudis,
the United Arab Emirates, and to Washington.
At the time of the US invasion of Iraq the Crown Prince of the UAE
requested that Washington bomb Al Jazeera so that the Arab world would
not be inflamed by truthful reporting of the US attack on Iraq. In
April 2003 Al Jazeera’s Baghdad office in Iraq was struck by a US
missile, killing one journalist and wounding another. Of course,
Washington claimed it was just a mistake. http://www.globalresearch.ca/uae-crown-prince-asked-us-to-bomb-al-jazeera-says-2003-cable/5596718
Qatar has the highest per capita income in the world—$129,700 in
2016—a sum to which American per capita income compares very poorly.
