Doha

'Cause for example, it's like, it's not that I prefer Qatar or I prefer another airline, but I just know if I, I connect during, um, if I fly on Qatar and I connect in-

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I mean, like, you can, you know, see how SS 10 types have essentially, um, mobilized themselves into other places.

But I think that the whole region ultimately, that the apex of it is Qatar, that it is Doha, and it's kind of interesting 'cause Doha actually comes out of the, uh, Persian Gulf here, almost kind of like a phallic.

Mm-hmm.

You know, in a way, like, [laughs] like s- I mean, that would be a, a draconian i- um, technology if you think about all of the, um, obelisk networks on the planet.

And second of all, sorry to say, You are the most immediate targets, and if we're going to be asphyxiated, we need to make sure that the rest of the world is going to pay a price, and you're the target nearby.

But those explanations don't really work if you're in Doha or Abu Dhabi or in Riyadh.

They say, we tried, and what did it yield? Now, what does it mean for the Gulf going forward? I think they're caught in sort of a real jam because they made these two wagers.

The two wagers failed, but they're left with the two wagers.

I mean, they have the infrastructure and the experience to make it happen.

I would just have concerns about the athletes running a marathon in Doha in the month of August.

But apart from that,

I think they can make it work.

Help my audience understand why your pursuit of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed began in 1993.

Well, in 1993, we discovered that a man named Khalid from Doha had sent $660 to one of Ramzi Yosef's associates.

At that point, we didn't know much about Khalid from Doha, but it was obviously something we were looking into.

We later determined that it was a relative of Ramzi Yosef.

who then really came on our radar after Ramsey Yosef was picked up in the Philippines.

How close did you ever come to getting KSM?

Well, you know, it's tough looking for somebody around the world, and to do that, you need a lot of cooperation.

We came close once in Doha, a gutter.

And to his friend is visiting.

Sorry for his friends visiting from Doha right now, but he's not arriving until midnight tonight.

And I joked, I said, we should switch places and you should go lay in the bed and cover yourself up and pretend to be me.

So when he arrives, you're like, hello.

And to his friend is visiting.

Sorry for his friends visiting from Doha right now, but he's not arriving until midnight tonight.

And I joked, I said, we should switch places and you should go lay in the bed and cover yourself up and pretend to be me.

So when he arrived, you're like, hello.

FERGUSON, He wants the United States to accept the outcome it chose, lift sanctions, and agree to full diplomatic and trade relations with Taliban-run Afghanistan.

All of this was made clear in the agreement in Doha that there would be no more meddling into Afghanistan's internal issues and no economic restrictions.

When America doesn't hold to their side of the deal like this, we feel they are taking revenge on Afghanistan for the past.

It's a war that left Mohammad and millions of other Afghans now deprived of their personal safety and their rights, wondering what happened to the safer Afghanistan and safer world America promised, and whether it might have been better if they'd never come at all.

Which, of course, is what happened on Trump's watch.

As Susanna George of the Washington Post noted, "...the Taliban capitalized on the uncertainty caused by the Trump February 2020 agreement reached in Doha, Qatar, between the militant group and the United States calling for a full American withdrawal from Afghanistan." Some Afghan forces realized they soon would no longer be able to count on American air power and other crucial battlefield support and grew receptive to the Taliban's approaches.

John Perr's article on Daily Kos did a great summary with the title, Trump Put 5,000 Taliban Fighters Back in Battle and Tied Biden's Hands in Afghanistan.

Trump schemed and lied to help his own 2020 re-election efforts, and the people who worked with our military and the U.S.-backed Afghan government paid a terrible price for it.