Scoop Images: Satellite Reveals Qatar US Air Base
Saturday, 10 August 2002, 2:02 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson
Images published by GlobalSecurity.org taken by
DigitalGlobe.com on June 13 2002 – and used here with
permission of DigitalGlobe - reveal that preparations are
well advanced for air strikes against Iraq.
The US Air
Base at Al Udeid, Qatar has been extensively upgraded in
recent months perhaps in anticipation of the decision this
week from the Saudi’s to refuse the US rights to use air
bases in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.