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ABU DHABI — Qatar, under pressure from the Arab League, is said to have expelled the Muslim Brotherhood.

Diplomatic sources said Doha deported dozens of exiled Brotherhood leaders who escaped Egypt in 2013.

The sources said the Brotherhood operatives flew to Egypt’s neighbor Libya and joined Islamist militias.

“The Brotherhood people were given three days to pack their bags and get on the plane to Tripoli,” a source said.

The sources did not identify those deported. But they said several of them were on a list of 15 Brotherhood and Hizbullah operatives submitted by Saudi Arabia last month.

In March 2014, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar in protest of the Brotherhood and Hizbullah presence. Six weeks later, Bahrain and Oman said the split within the Gulf Cooperation Council was over.

The London-based daily Al Arab reported that Brotherhood leaders were
being hosted by an Islamist militia west of Tripoli. The newspaper did not
identify the arrivals.

Neither Qatar nor Libya confirmed the Brotherhood expulsion. But GCC
foreign ministers were said to have reached agreement to end the Brotherhood
presence in Qatar during their meeting on April 17 in Saudi Arabia.

“We have drawn up reconciliation measures and an action plan that is
being fine-tuned right now in Riyad,” Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid Bin
Ahmed Al Khalifa said. “The timeline will be linked to the progress of the
process.”

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