VOA: Mattis Describes Qatar Situation as 'Difficult'
PENTAGON — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis described the diplomatic spat between Qatar and several other American allies in the Middle East as a “complex situation” that the United States needed to help solve.
“I believe that (Qatar’s) Prince Thani inherited a difficult, very tough situation, and he’s trying to turn the society in the right direction,” Mattis told lawmakers at a House Armed Services Committee hearing late Monday. “But we all agree that funding of any kind of terrorist group is inimical to all of our interest.”
Mattis said President Donald Trump was focused on stopping all terrorist funding, including what he called “grey funding.”
“It’s not black and white; it goes into some kind of nebulous area,” he said.
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Khaled Meshal, 60, spent more than 20 years as head of the Hamas Politburo. He then moved to Syria, but he left Damascus and headed to Qatar after the breakout of the civil war. The building where the interview takes place is located in an outlying neighborhood of Doha and serves as the Politburo's offices. The security measures are very thorough. Even the pens brought by the two
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