From: ScottW48@hotmail.com   
      
   and in case you wondered why they were there living a luxurious lifestyle....   
      
   The U.S. played a direct role in helping set up the Hamas office in Qatar   
   during the Obama administration, seeking appeasement and soft diplomacy but   
   ultimately failing to control the terrorist group as it festered in Gaza.    
   [....]   
      
   Qatar's Ambassador to Washington Meshal bin Hamad Al Thani wrote in a Wall   
   Street Journal op-ed that his government set up the Hamas political office in   
   Doha "after a request from Washington to establish indirect lines of   
   communication" in 2012.   
      
   ScottW   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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