Qatar builds its investments and its influence in a stormy Middle East - The Washington Post

Qatar builds its investments and its influence in a stormy Middle East - The Washington Post:

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EGYPTIAN PRESIDENCY / HANDOUT/EPA - Egypt's Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei (R) talks with Qatari foreign minister Khalid bin Muhammad al-Atiyah (C), during a meeting at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, Aug. 5

Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani had just turned 15 the summer his father overthrew his grandfather. It was June 1995. While Sheik Khalifa Bin Hamad al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, was traveling in Switzerland, Tamim’s father deposed him in a bloodless coup.

Two months later, Tamim donned a straw boater and dark morning suit, the uniform of the elite English boarding school Harrow. Within two years, he was enrolled at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, where British army officers are trained and Arab leaders have groomed their offspring for decades."

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