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Inspector Tamim gets one right

Remember my old friend Inspector Tamim, the police chief of Dubai? Well, he's gotten it right this time. The inspector says that US policy is the number one threat to the Gulf States; the US is not an ally.

Rumor has it that President Obumbler started crying when he heard this.

Let's go to the videotape.



There's a summary here.

In a January 19, 2012 address at the GCC national and regional security conference in Bahrain, Dubai's longtime chief of police Dahi Khalfan Tamim gave an assessment of security threats to the Gulf states. He said that the U.S. was the main security threat, had realized Iran's dreams in Iraq, was "embracing" the Muslim Brotherhood, and was no longer an ally. His remarks prompted U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain Thomas Krajeski, who was attending the conference, to walk out.

The day following the address, he defended his statements, saying, "The U.S. has granted Iran many of its dreams in the region, including the toppling of Saddam [Hussein], active presence of Iran in Iraq and the exporting of the revolution into the Arab world." He added, "I was not solely targeting the U.S. policies but was giving my reading to the security threats to the Gulf, and they included several factors. I talked about corruption and abuse of power, especially in law enforcement apparatus, on Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood as well."

Read the whole thing.

Labels: Inspector Tamim, Persian Gulf, US foreign policy

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:44 AM