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Saudis Give Qatar 24 Hours to Give in to Huge Demands

• http://news.antiwar.com, by Jason Ditz

With all diplomatic ties between Qatar and most of its fellow GCC members now severed in an ideological row with Saudi Arabia, the Saudi kingdom has publicly issued an ultimatum, giving Qatar just 24 hours to give in to a litany of major demands, with speculation that they would face immediate military invasion if they don't submit by then.

The ten demands get progressively more outrageous, starting with demands for Qatar to publicly sever all ties to Iran and officially "apologize" for how mad the Saudis got at them. It gets more and more extreme from there, demanding Qatar expel every member of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood from the nation and freeze all their bank accounts.

Ultimately, the demands also include Qatar publicly vowing to never again have any policy which is perceived as "contradicting" the GCC's official stance. The GCC is dominated heavily by Saudi Arabia, so in effect this means Qatar must promise to eternally and irrevocably endorse the Saudi position, past, present, and future, on all things.


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