{"id":124922,"date":"2025-10-14T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=124922"},"modified":"2025-10-12T06:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:56:02","slug":"14-00-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=124922","title":{"rendered":"Activist Laura Loomer Blasts Pentagon Over Planned Qatar Military Facility in Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/algem.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"35%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><span><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2025\/10\/11\/activist-laura-loomer-blasts-pentagon-over-planned-qatar-military-facility-in-idaho\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Activist Laura Loomer Blasts Pentagon Over Planned Qatar Military Facility in Idaho<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Reuters<\/strong><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em> and<\/em><\/span><strong> Algemeiner Staff<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/lm2025-10-10T211129Z_1_LYNXNPEL9911Z_RTROPTP_4_USA-ELECTION-DEBATE-ARRIVALS.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Laura Loomer arrives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 10, 2024. REUTERS\/Eduardo Munoz<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Far-right activist Laura Loomer slammed President Donald Trump\u2019s administration on Friday over its deepening defense ties with Qatar and made false accusations that spread on social media that the Pentagon was giving it a military base on US soil.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth met with Qatar\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman al-Thani at the Pentagon earlier in the day, announcing that Qatar would pay for a facility at a US air base in Idaho. He did not say the US would give Qatar the base, or any base in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The facility, which has been in discussions for years, would support Qatar\u2019s plans to train pilots on 12 F-15 fighter jets that the country is buying and which would be located there, a US official told Reuters. The facility would include hangars to shield the aircraft from the elements and a squadron operations building for the pilots, the official said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>U.S. TO SUPERVISE CONSTRUCTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The arrangement, which the official said was in line with those agreed with other US allies, would result in the facility being built by local contractors under US military supervision and funded by Qatar. Pilots from Singapore already train at the US base.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cWe\u2019re signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatar Emiri Air Force facility at the Mountain Home Air Base in Idaho,\u201d Hegseth said, alongside his Qatari counterpart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Shortly after the announcement, Loomer said she did not think she would vote in next year\u2019s mid-term elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cNever thought I\u2019d see Republicans give terror financing Muslims from Qatar a MILITARY BASE on US soil so they can murder Americans,\u201d Loomer wrote on X.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">She posted a clip of Trump speaking in 2017, when he accused Qatar of historically funding terrorism \u201cat a very high level.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In the wake of her remarks, Hegseth posted on X: \u201cTo be clear, Qatar will not have their own base in the United States \u2014 nor anything like a base. We control the existing base, like we do with all partners.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Qatar\u2019s embassy spokesperson said the facility in Idaho would not be a Qatari air base.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cQatar has made an initial 10-year commitment to construct and maintain a dedicated facility within an existing US air base, intended for advanced training and to enhance interoperability,\u201d Ali Al-Ansari said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">He said the arrangement was similar to existing programs the US has with other international allies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Qatar is a US security partner and host to al-Udeid Air Base, the largest US military facility in the Middle East. It acted as a mediator alongside Egypt in talks between Israel and Hamas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A self-proclaimed \u201cIslamophobe\u201d who for years argued the September 11, 2001, attacks were an inside job, Loomer has a history of provocative and self-promotional actions, including handcuffing herself to Twitter\u2019s headquarters in New York in 2018 after the platform banned her for hate speech.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">With 1.8 million followers on X and her own weekly program that draws a large audience, Loomer can say she speaks for many of the MAGA faithful and influences their views of the Trump administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In April, Trump fired US General Timothy Haugh, who was the director of the National Security Agency and head of US Cyber Command.\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>\u00a0reported that Loomer had called for his ouster.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 15px; background: #d0e6fa; width: 100%;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\"content-alignment\">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion&#8217;68,<\/em><em><br \/>\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion&#8217;68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.<br \/>\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr style=\"width: 100%;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activist Laura Loomer Blasts Pentagon Over Planned Qatar Military Facility in Idaho Reuters and Algemeiner Staff Laura Loomer arrives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 10, 2024. 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