Eli Lake, Columnist

The Two Qatars Will Test Trump's Anti-Terror Plan

Will this duplicitous nation cut off terrorist financing, or coordinate with the Pentagon, or both?

May 31, 2017 at 3:12 PM UTC

Eli Lake is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering national security and foreign policy. He was the senior national security correspondent for the Daily Beast and covered national security and intelligence for the Washington Times, the New York Sun and UPI.

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For a brief moment it looked like President Donald Trump had done it.

He got the leaders of six Gulf nations to sign a communique pledging to eradicate the financing of jihadis. The timing happened to coincide with the completion of a new center in Saudi Arabia to combat extremism. It was a powerful signal that America's traditional allies were united against Iran and Sunni extremists.