The impact of the Iraq war is now being felt across Middle East

The impact of the Iraq war is now being felt across Middle East

Monday, 21st March 2005, by Robert Fisk

O now they have struck in Qatar. Nice, friendly, liberal Doha, with its massive US air base and its spiky, argumentative al-Jazeera television, its modern shops and expatriate compounds and luxury hotels. Ever since al-Qa’ida urged its supporters to strike around the maritime Arab kingdoms of the Gulf, the princes and emirs have been waiting to find out who’s first. Saturday’s suicide bomber - and the killing of a Briton - gave them their answer.