Article: Qatar's Peace-Making Position.

Qatar is a small fish stuck between giants - Iran and Saudi Arabia - as well as between conflicting sectarian ideologies and geo-political ambitions like the Shi'ite Ja'farism and Turko-Persian background of the Iranian theocracy and the Sunni Wahhabism of the Saudi royal regime and its leadership of the Muslim world. These are inter-acting or competing with Ba'thist pan-Arabism in Syria and a tense relationship between an Islamist AKP government and secular Kamalism in Turkey. In addition, there is the Neo-Salafi movement al-Qaeda of 'Usama bin Laden, which uses Qatar's al-Jazeera TV network as an outlet to the world, as opposed to the US-led war against global terror. ...

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