Qaradawi. ‘Corrupt’ media under fire in Kuwait and Qatar. Qatar charts a new but worrying course. Dubai: During back-to-back summits in recent days, Qatar displayed some big mood swings.
First Doha hosted a Gaza crisis conference that included Iran's president and Hamas' leader and became a soapbox to bash America and its Mideast allies. Then three days later in Kuwait, Qatari leaders had lunch with Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz and gushed about unity with Washington's top Arab partners. President Barack Obama has inherited the familiar map of Arab-Israeli minefields. But off to the side - sticking like an exclamation point into the Gulf - Qatar could quickly become a quandary for the new White House.