Category: Middle east

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• Qatari money in Egypt — John Kiriakou's explanation for Qatar injecting seven and a half billion dollars into the Egyptian economy: to annoy Saudi Arabia. He describes a long, close Saudi–Egyptian relationship dating back to the mid-1960s, a terrible Qatari–Saudi one, and an Egypt happy to take the money — including the year the Egyptians thanked the Saudis for their generosity with an uninhabited island in the Red Sea.