Doha - The capital city of Qatar, an absolutist emirate on the Persian Gulf, the scene hypermodernistischer concrete architecture, residence of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa El-Thani, deposed his father in 1995 and placed himself on the throne.
Through the exploitation of oil and gas reserves his Scheichtum nominally catapulted the country with the highest per capita incomes in the world - and the highest CO2 emissions of the globe. The predestined to the country to be the scene of some climate conferences.
Qatar is sponsoring the Arab news station Al Jazeera, which has been instrumental in the grotesquely unbalanced coverage of Syria, and, more importantly, it was from the beginning of one of the arms sponsors of the Syrian "rebels" who came often equal to itself from Qatar ,
In accordance with the laws of Sharia that come in Qatar to use, homosexuals are jailed. (more ...)