Qatar Posts 3/3/2013

• Saudi Arabia and Qatar ratchet up sectarian and ethnic tensions in Iraq 
  Both Saudi Arabia and Qatar have been working hard to break up the Shia-Kurdish strategic alliance in Iraq, replacing it with a Turkish strategic alliance with the Kurdish Region (KR), headed by Massoud Barzani, a development which has not only dramatically bolstered the position of the KR in its tense confrontation with Iraq's central government (CG) over land and oil, but also more broadly ramped up ethnic tensions.
• The Saudi Arabization of Islam