Qatar to have largest US military warehouse

The Qatari daily Gulf Times issued on Monday quoted the outgoing US ambassador in Doha, Patrick Nickolas Theros, as saying that, "The US is currently building in Qatar its largest storage base for military equipment abroad."

The ambassador added that the base, on which work will be completed within 18 months, "aims at storing only military equipment." He described this base as "a sort of a huge warehouse."

Qatar signed a defense agreement with the US following the Gulf War in 1991 and permitted it to store military equipment on its territory.