{"id":9210,"date":"2011-10-28T17:44:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=9210"},"modified":"2011-10-28T17:44:10","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:44:10","slug":"qatar-admits-it-had-boots-on-ground-in-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2011\/10\/qatar-admits-it-had-boots-on-ground-in-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar admits it had boots on ground in Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9211\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/31364_main.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9211\" title=\"31364_main\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/31364_main.jpg?resize=480%2C320\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Qatari Crown Prince Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani (C) and Libya&#039;s National Transitional Council (NTC) chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil (L) attend the &quot;Friends of Libya&quot; group meeting held in Doha, Qatar on October 26, 2011 to discuss the future of the country after Moamer Kadhafi was buried in secret.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">DOHA: Qatar revealed for the first time Wednesday that hundreds of its soldiers had fought alongside Libyans in their battle to topple longtime despot Moammar Gadhafi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">&#8220;We were among them and the numbers of Qataris on ground were hundreds in every region,&#8221; said Qatari chief of staff Maj. Gen. Hamad bin Ali al-Atiya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The announcement marks the first time that Qatar has acknowledged it had military boots on the ground in Libya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Previously the gas-rich country said it had only lent the support of its air force to NATO-led operations to protect civilians during the eight-month uprising, which ended when Gadhafi was felled with a bullet to the head after being captured last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Middle-East\/2011\/Oct-26\/152269-qatar-admits-it-had-boots-on-ground-in-libya.ashx#axzz1c6D4jJ6i\">Source.<\/a><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOHA: Qatar revealed for the first time Wednesday that hundreds of its soldiers had fought alongside Libyans in their battle to topple longtime despot Moammar..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166,21],"tags":[228,197,226,242,347],"class_list":["post-9210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-international","tag-colonialism","tag-imperialism","tag-imperialist-war","tag-libya","tag-workers-struggle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/31364_main_9210_7b921.jpg?fit=480%2C320&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}