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            <title><![CDATA[Qatar terror funding to Hezbollah]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 10:25:59 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2020-08-07T10:25:59.370Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Qatar is sponsoring the delivery of weapons to the #Hezbollah terrorist group, endangering nearly 10,000 US troops stations in Qatar. Qatar is a major financier of Hezbollah and Qatar is the reason that US forces are endangered.</p><p>The Lebanese Hezbollah group is an Iranian sponsored Shi’ite militia founded in Lebanon in 1982 by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) of Tehran. It remains reliant on and funding from Iranian finance.According to the latest report, royals in Doha, who appeared to be U.S. allies on paper, had threatened the lives of around 10,000 U.S. troops stationed in their territories at the U.S. military base, Al Udeid. The U.S. military base in Qatar houses U.S. Central Command headquarters and squadrons of the U.S.Air Force.</p><p>qatar’s financing of weapons to Hezbollah endangered the lives of about 10,000 US troops in the country,The report also revealed how Abdulrahman bin Mohammed Sulaiman al-Khulaifi channelled the entire transaction.</p><p>Ambassador of Qatar to Belgium, and NATO. Jason said he’d been approached by al-Khulaifi with an offer during his undercover mission and al-Khulaifi agreed to compensate Jason G. 750,000 euros to hide Qatar’s regime’s role in money laundering and arms transactions with the Lebanese Shi’ite organisation.</p><p>Jason G. He said the ambassador said at a meeting in Brussels in January 2019 with al-Khulaifi, “The Jews are our enemies.” Jason G, who uses a fake name to conceal his identity to avoid being identified by the authorities of Qatar, said, “[My mission was to] stop Qatar from supporting extremistsn and [Qatar] must remain part of the international community, “the article was first released by the German newspaper Die Zeit, although the Qatari ambassador was not identified at the time.Irked by Qatar’s increasing support to terror outfits in Middle East and Europe, European leaders raised a unanimous call for swift crackdown on Qatar’s funding of Hezbollah.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=2d207d72e79c" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[UAE: Massive coronavirus testing laboratory built in 14 days]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2020 13:18:11 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2020-04-01T13:24:03.427Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Abu Dhabi already has announced that they are about to launch a new massive-throughput laboratory to test COVID-19 Patients and today the launch of a new massive-throughput laboratory built to address the need for population-scale detection and diagnosis of covid19 in the United Arab Emirates. Group 42, the leading technology company based in AbuDhabi and global genomics leader BGI, have launched a new massive-throughput laboratory.</p><p>Lab will use RT-PCR diagnostic kits developed by BGI.A form of tests that look for the disease in specimens collected from respiratory tests. They have also plan to enable cutting-edge monitoring of virus mutations and the ability to detect new pathogens in the future with high-throughput sequencing.</p><p>Already, Sheikh Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed visited the UAE’s first drive-through testing site in Abu Dhabi this week, and the UAE is set to launch several more across the country in the coming days. In this pandemic situation, UAE brings up with new technological resources to fight against COVID-19.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=cd445382f8c5" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[International Women’s Day]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 11:43:19 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2020-03-09T11:43:19.933Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>International Women’s Day is an opportunity to honor women who have been bringing solidarity through physical, spiritual, and virtual outlets. It is a day to reflect on the work that still remains, knowing that women have fought to be heard. It reminds us to look beyond our borders and to think about how we can make future progress daily. Women in the UAE have found ways to celebrate their hard work together every year and are joining activists around the world to be part of a message that is told to millions of young girls of different cultures and backgrounds.</p><p>The UAE has focused on empowering women since its founding day on the 2nd of December 1971.</p><p>Her Highness Sheikha Fatima bin Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union (GWU), President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, and Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation (FDF) has shown her support for Emirati women through her wise leadership and humanitarian work. Sheikha Fatima, also known as the “Mother of the UAE”, has drawn Arab, regional, and international attention thanks to her commitment to placing Emirati women where they deserve to be.</p><p>The country has enabled its women to occupy leadership roles in the government and private sectors. Being part of its development plans has helped them attain a key and successful role</p><p>through political empowerment programmes launched by His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed</p><p>Al Nahyan. It is with the help of programmes such as these that Emirati women have taken on senior and professional positions in the country as ministers, speakers, judges, doctors, engineers, and soldiers.</p><p>“Women are the sisters of men, and there is no difference between them, as they are partners in the nation’s advancement and prosperity,” the late Sheikh Zayed always said, as he strongly empowered women and gave them a place to support the country’s economic development.</p><p>The UAE has grown to raise and empower the community through women by strengthening their role.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=c442e569ff71" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[MQ-9 drone from the US CentralCommand Kills Soleimani]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:22:30 GMT</pubDate>
            <atom:updated>2020-01-06T13:22:30.447Z</atom:updated>
            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An unmanned MQ-9 ‘hunter-killer’ buzz carried from the US Central Command headquarters in Qatar killed Iranian Major general of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Qasem Soleimani, and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Deputy General. Local army commander Abu Muntather al-Hussaini, states that two bullets knocked the car carrying Soleimani, 62, and al-Muhandis, 66. The other car was hit by a single shot at the</p><p>Baghdad International airport. An engineer was also amongst those killed. The 230mph drone, led by a two-man team hundreds of miles apart, can carry out accuracy strikes and relay forms of the attack to leaders in the world. The $64million Reaper leads four laser-guided Hellfire weapons with 38lb warheads proficient of slaying a tank, with Paveway bombs.</p><p>It appears manifest that the Americans have utilized the Qatari land to conducts the killing of Soleimani. Aviation authorities stated its flight was ‘nearly quiet’, indicating its designated victims would have had little or no indication of its access. The strike included revised Hellfire R9X ‘Ninja’ missiles, which have warheads by pop-out spinning edges intended to reduce deposit damage. The MQ-9 ‘hunter-killer’ noise was left from Al-Udeid Air Base in Qatar. Exactness drone hits rely on accurate knowledge, and Soleimani was kept below near-constant stakeout from the al-Udeid US Air Base. The Pentagon stated: ‘At the direction of the President, the US military has taken decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani. This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans.’</p><p>The information reported by local militia commander Abu Muntather al-Hussaini approve the strike was sent out by the Joint Special Operations Command. That describes the reason why the Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, interacted Qatar deputy PM and Foreign Minister, Mohammed Al-Thani, to thank him. Pompeo on Twitter said, “solidarity in the face of Iran’s malign regional influence, including the December, 31 attacks on the US Embassy in Baghdad”.</p><p>The Al-Udeid Air Base, along with fighters, bombers, tankers and reconnaissance planes, is a section of the military alliance within the USA and Qatar, developed quickly in the 1990s and early portion of the 21st century. Of its building, the Qataris urged the United States to practice Al-Udeid Air Base as its office for the Air Forces Central Command and the Combined Air and Space Operations Room. Doha is a primary customer for the US Défense industry, along with the last 2017’s investment of $12 billion worth of F-15s. Other new purchases with $20 million worth of Javelin guided weapons, $700 million in logistics maintenance assistance and equipment, and a predicted $200 million in weapons methods.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=f95986677bf6" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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