Qatar row: Trump urges Arab unity in call to Saudi Arabia's King Salman

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Qatar row: Trump urges Arab unity in call to Saudi Arabia's King Salman

7 June 2017 Middle East

US President Donald Trump has called the king of Saudi Arabia to urge Gulf unity amid an escalating dispute over Qatar's alleged support for militants.

"His message was that we need unity in the region to fight extremist ideology and terrorist financing," a US official told Reuters news agency.

Earlier, he said the Saudis' move to isolate Qatar could mark the "beginning of the end to the horror of terrorism".

Several countries cut travel and embassy links with Qatar on Monday.

Qatar strongly denies supporting radical Islamism.

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[pangaia]

1. What in the world is he talking about?

Don't bother to try to explain..

[drray23]

2. i suspect trump got taken to the woodshed

by mattis and others who told him we have a base there and that we better shut up if we dont want the middle east to blow up again. not to mention that it is coming out that the origin of the mess was a story planted by the russians in a qatari newspaper..

[Freethinker65]

3. The ignorance and incompetence is mind boggling

[Docreed2003]

4. I think he's going for a record number of flip flops in 24hrs

This dude is cluelessly inept...