Syrian Violence Threatens Mideast ‘Volcano’ of War, Qatar Says
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The Syrian conflict threatens to consume the Middle East in a “volcano of violence and war,” Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani told world leaders today in Germany.
An Israeli air strike inside Syria, the first since the unrest began, “is likely to add fuel to the fire,” al-Thani said. It isn’t in the interest of Qatar, which has armed rebels trying to topple President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, “to bet on a particular faction” inside the country, he said.