Daily Telegraph: Saudi Canal “to Turn Qatar into an Island”
Saudi Arabia intends to literally carve up the Arabian Peninsula to spite it’s tiny neighbour Qatar, inviting companies to construct a canal that would turn the emirate into an island, according to Saudi media reports.
The kingdom, which has led a blockade on Qatar for more than a year, has invited 5 companies to bid for the project, Makkah newspaper has reported, adding that a Saudi military base would be built in the kilometre-deep buffer zone between the future “Salwa Canal” and Qatar.
The project had first been floated in the kingdom’s media in April, when the Saudi-owned broadcaster said the 37 mile by 220 yard wide canal would include a tourist resort, a military base...... and a nuclear waste dump......