(New York Post) Jonathan Schanzer - Since August 2014, U.S.-backed coalition aircraft have flown tens of thousands of sorties to bomb ISIS. Almost all of them are commanded out of the high-tech al-Udeid air base in Qatar - a facility crucial to our war efforts. But Qatar harbors the bad guys, too. The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas enjoys safe haven in Qatar. Outgoing leader Khaled Meshal has long operated out of Doha. Hamas military official Saleh Arouri - suspected of masterminding the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens, sparking the 2014 war between Hamas and Israel - is now reportedly in Qatar after being booted from Turkey. The writer, a former Treasury Department terrorism-finance analyst, is senior vice president at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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