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ABU DHABI — Qatar has been threatened by a Gulf Cooperation Council neighbor.
The United Arab Emirates has claimed that Qatar was part of the emirates. A senior official said Qatar represented the eighth emirate of the UAE.
“We must put up signs on our borders with Qatar stating: ‘You are now entering the UAE’s eighth emirate,'” UAE security chief Gen. Dahi Khalfan said.
In a statement on April 3, Khalfan issued the first threat against Qatar’s sovereignty.
A month earlier, the UAE, along with Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, withdrew their ambassadors from Doha in protest of what was termed Qatar’s support for Hizbullah and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Khalfan, regarded as the No. 2 figure in UAE security, did not detail Abu Dhabi’s claim on Qatar. He said the UAE, which severed other relations with Doha, was now ready to “reclaim” Qatar.
“Qatar is an integral part of the UAE,” Khalfan said.
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