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The Qatar blockade is mostly all about Egypt<\/strong>, writes Marc Champion for Bloomberg<\/a>. The demands imposed by the \u201cSaudi-led\u201d coalition have more to do with combating the Ikhwan than fighting international terrorism, he says while implying that both are somehow very different. He notes that 26 out of the 59 people placed on the coalition\u2019s wanted list are Egyptian. \u201cEgypt has been dreaming for this moment, where the Saudis and everyone else is applying pressure on Qatar,\u201d according to Mokhtar Awad, a research fellow at George Washington University\u2019s Program on Extremism. Meanwhile, New York Times\u2019 David Kirkpatrick<\/a>says that former Al Jazeera English Cairo bureau chief Mohamed Fahmy\u2019s USD 100 mn lawsuit against the network and Qatar is the latest of the \u201cbizarre twists and turns.\u201d He notes that although Fahmy was jailed in Egypt, he takes his native country\u2019s side in its feud with Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Qatar blockade is mostly all about Egypt, writes Marc Champion for Bloomberg. The demands imposed by the \u201cSaudi-led\u201d coalition have more to do with combating the Ikhwan than fighting international terrorism, he says while implying that both are somehow very different. 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