Quote:Sir Victor’s remarks are, admittedly, even harder to believe than the claims of the various UFO cults. If you are not familiar with the massive, well documented occult and religious literature, his words may be incomprehensible to you. In essence, he means that the UFO phenomenon is actually a staggering cosmic put-on: a joke perpetrated by invisible entities who have always delighted in frightening, confusing and misleading the human race. The activities of these entities have been carefully recorded throughout history, and we will be leaning heavily on those historical records in this book.

Quote:Four Iranians among five arrested in UK over alleged terror plot (May 3, 2025)

(CNN)  — British counter-terrorism police have arrested five men, including four Iranian nationals, on suspicion of planning a terrorist act, a statement from London’s Metropolitan Police said on Sunday.

The investigation relates to a suspected plot to target a specific location, according to the statement, which added that the men were arrested during raids at a number of addresses across the country on Saturday.

“This is a fast-moving investigation and we are working closely with those at the affected site to keep them updated,” said Commander Dominic Murphy, head of the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command.

The Met Police have not said which site was the target of the alleged attack. It said the men were arrested in the Greater Manchester and London areas, as well as in the southern town of Swindon.

“The investigation is still in its early stages and we are exploring various lines of enquiry to establish any potential motivation as well as to identify whether there may be any further risk to the public linked to this matter,” said Murphy.

Four of the men are Iranian nationals, ranging in age from 29 to 46, and have been detained under Britain’s Terrorism Act, the police statement said. The nationality of the fifth man, whose age was not provided, was still being established and the Met statement said he had instead been detained under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act.

All five remain in police custody.

“We understand the public may be concerned and as always, I would ask them to remain vigilant and if they see or hear anything that concerns them, then to contact us,” Murphy said.

Additional details of the suspects arrests:

    A 29-year-old man arrested in the Swindon area
    A 46-year-old man arrested in west London
    A 29-year-old man arrested in the Stockport area
    A 40-year-old man arrested in the Rochdale area
    A man (age to be confirmed) arrested in the Manchester area

This is a developing story and will be updated.

Quote:Things were getting desperate for D.C. when he hit upon the idea of subdividing some of his land and selling it as housing lots.[20] This was strange idea in the early 1970s because of the remoteness of the area. All that was here then were struggling farms and some very small mining operations, and Union Carbide had not yet reactivated the mine. Why would anyone buy land so far from civilization? Ed Gunderson on the other side of the valley had tried the same without much luck, but D.C. fared better owing to his better location. Ed and Laura Fallis were the first to buy land in the subdivision, then Union Carbide reopened the Lincoln Mine around 1976, and D.C.'s struggling subdivision, being the closest private land, promised to become a real town.

Union Carbide was a difficult neighbor, however. When it became clear that the mine would be reopened, that's when D.C. says the harassment began.[21] State inspectors from Las Vegas and Carson City descended on D.C.'s tiny subdivision and started to find fault where there had been none before. One inspector forced a new landowner to cap off his well and fill it with concrete because he had drilled it himself and not used a licensed drilling company, even though the well itself was sound.[22] Another inspector demanded that D.C. rip up all the PVC piping he had installed to supply water in his new trailer park because the law only required a lower quality piping.[23] "Every time we turned a shovel of dirt up out here they'd try to stop us." says D.C.

"We could never prove it," he says[24], "but Union Carbide had started a subdivision in Alamo. They wanted their employees to buy or live in Alamo... I sold some land in the subdivision to a friend of mine down at Alamo and they told him, `If you buy land down in Penoyer Valley, look for another job.'"

Rachel Timeline

In some cases, these dates are a best guess. If anyone has more precise dates for these events, they should let me know so I can update this list in any future editions. --G.C.

375,000,000 BC: Giant Meteorite crashes somewhere in Rachel Vicinity. Rachel is beneath a sea at the time.
1865: Silver found in Tempiute Mountain.
1868: Second silver vein found in Tempiute Mountain.
1930s: First tungsten mine opens on Tempiute Mountain.
Late 1940s: Mine closes when Tungsten prices fall.
1950: Mine reopened by Wah Change Trading Company.
1957: Mine again closes when Tungsten prices fall.
1960s: Homesteaders begin farming in Sand Spring Valley.
1965: D.C. Day purchases homesteading allotment in Sand Springs Valley. He eventually obtains deed to the land but runs out of money to farm it.
Early 1970s: D.C. Day begins offering subdivided land as "Tempiute Village."
1975: Ed and Lora Fallis are first to buy land in subdivision.
Mid-1970s: Union Carbide buys and reopens Lincoln Mine.
1976: J.R. Robinson opens a store and trailer park. Generators provide power to the trailer park. Tom Spears opens the bar. Both store and bar consist of one single-wide mobile home each.
Feb. 15, 1978: Rachel Jones born.
Mar. 21, 1978: Women of Rachel meet to form a civic group, eventually called MUMS, for "Mothers Under Mighty Stress."
Mar. 22, 1978: Outside power comes to town. "Tempiute Village" renamed to "Rachel."
May 31, 1978: First television reception: Las Vegas KLAS-TV (Ch. 8) via a repeater paid for by Rachel residents.

Feb. 1996: Route 375 is designated the "Extraterrestrial Highway" by the state.

March 13, 2011: Fay Day, wife of Rachel founder D C Day, passed away in her home in Rachel.

Quote:Our Fatherland, taking on the main blow of Germany, for three years essentially one opposed the Hitler bloc. Until the summer of 1944, when the second front was opened in Europe, 70 to 75% of all enemy divisions operated on the Soviet-German front, the vast majority of all German military equipment of Germany and its allies. The Soviet Union played a major role in their defeat. It was here that the outcome of the Second World War was decided. The Soviet Armed Forces defeated 507 fascist divisions and 100 divisions of the Allies of Germany - almost 3.5 times more than on all other fronts of the Second World War. The armed forces of Germany lost on the Soviet-German front more than 70 thousand aircraft (about 70% of the total number of aircraft lost in the war), about 50 thousand tanks and assault guns (up to 75%), 167 thousand artillery (74%), more than 2500 different ships and auxiliary vessels.

What determined the victorious outcome of this war for the USSR?

The victory was made possible thanks to the monolithic nature of our multinational state. At the cost of their own life, the feats of Russian Yuri Smirnov, Ukrainian Viktor Ilchenko, Tatar Musa Jalil, Armenian Georgy Kolozoyan, Said Aliyev from Dagestan and many others were included in the price of their own life.

Saving their comrades, more than 300 soldiers repeated the feat of Alexander Matrosov, closing with their bodies the embrasure of enemy bunkers. The truly indestructible strength of spirit moved the pilots of Nikolai Gastello, Viktor Talalikhin and their comrades who are deliberately going to sacrifice.

Fighting in the forests of Belarus and in the steppes of Ukraine, in the snow-capped Arctic and on the banks of the Volga, each of them defended their land, his city and village, its aul and a village, his home and family.

Day of Military Glory of Russia. May 9 - Victory Day of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 By Nikolay Ayazinsky, Leading Researcher the Military History Institute of Military Academy General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation,
Doctor of Historical Sciences.

Quote:President Trump is set to receive a “flying palace” Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet from Qatar’s royal family, which he will use as Air Force One, according to a report.

Trump, 78, intends to use the aircraft — called the most luxurious private jet in the world — as an interim presidential jet while Boeing completes the next-generation Air Force One fleet following years of frustrating delays and cost overruns.

The jumbo jet, valued at $400 million, will potentially be transferred to the Trump presidential library foundation when the president leaves office, sources told ABC News.

The Republican leader appeared to confirm that he will accept the plane in a Truth Social post Sunday night in which he called Democrats “World Class Losers” for criticizing the arrangement.

“So the fact that the Defense Department is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a 747 aircraft to replace the 40 year old Air Force One, temporarily, in a very public and transparent transaction, so bothers the Crooked Democrats that they insist we pay, TOP DOLLAR, for the plane,” he wrote.

“Anybody can do that! The Dems are World Class Losers!!! MAGA.”

The president is heading to the Middle East this week for his second foreign trip of his second term, and will swing through Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

Officials are expected to unveil the plans during Trump’s stop in Qatar, according to the report.

Qatar rejected characterization in reports that the plane will be a gift to Trump before the president’s social media post.

“Reports that a jet is being gifted by Qatar to the United States government during the upcoming visit of President Trump are inaccurate,” Ali Al-Ansari, Qatar’s media attaché to the US, told The Post.

“The possible transfer of an aircraft for temporary use as Air Force One is currently under consideration between Qatar’s Ministry of Defense and the US Department of Defense, but the matter remains under review by the respective legal departments, and no decision has been made.”

Trump previously toured the luxurious plane at West Palm Beach International Airport in February.

Over recent weeks, the Trump administration tapped defense contractor L3Harris to tune up the Boeing 747, which had previously been used by Qatar’s royal family, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Trump wants the aircraft ready as early as the fall, according to the Journal.

The news reports sparked outrage from Democrats, including Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY), who expressed “alarm” in a complaint to the acting inspector general and related government agencies.

“Just as troubling as the gift itself is the identity of the benefactor,” Torres said in the letter obtained by The Post.

“Qatar is not a neutral party on the world stage. It has a deeply troubling history of financing a barbaric terrorist organization that has blood on its hands. In the cruelest irony, Air Force One will have something in common with Hamas: paid for by Qatar.”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) also blasted the Trump administration.

“Nothing says ‘America First’ like Air Force One, brought to you by Qatar,” the New York pol tweeted. “It’s not just bribery, it’s a premium foreign influence with extra legroom.”

US Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) decried the potential deal as “just wildly illegal” before following up with another social media post.

“But even if it’s not a done deal yet, the fact giving Trump a jet is ‘under consideration’ tells you all you need to know about what countries are being told they need to do to be an ally with America under Trump,” Murphy also tweeted.

During his first term, the Trump administration awarded Boeing a $3.9 billion contract in 2018 to produce two new presidential planes for use as Air Force One. That project is not set to be completed until 2029, according to an estimate from Boeing last year.

At the moment, the US has two old Boeing 747-200 jumbo jets for Air Force One — the designation for any airplane that the president is on — which have been in operation since the 1990s.

Air Force One jets have to be equipped with state-of-the-art communications and defensive systems to protect the commander-in-chief, which makes its development expensive and complicated.

Some military officials had been hoping to add a third jet to the fleet as a backup for maintenance purposes.

The president was personally involved in designing the color scheme of the next-generation Air Force One planes and handling some fine points of the negotiation, frequently crowing about how he pushed the price down.

That project has since been hit with a series of delays and cost overruns.

Tech baron Elon Musk reportedly got involved in the Trump administration’s efforts to figure out what to do about Boeing’s delays and struggles to produce the next generation of Air Force One.

Ahead of unveiling the plan for Qatar’s “flying palace,” the Trump administration has assessed potential legal fallout, according to ABC.

The Constitution stipulates that “No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi and top White House lawyer David Warrington looked into the matter and concluded the plan is “legally permissible,” ABC News reported.

They concluded that receiving the plane is aboveboard because it is not being given to the president conditioned on an official act.

Trump set to receive $400 million ‘flying palace’ from Qatar to use as Air Force One: report

Quote:I don't have much of an opinion yet about Qatar's donation of a luxuriously appointed decommissioned 747 to the United States to serve as a temporary Air Force One.

The story, as with so many these days, is murky because everybody has an ideological axe to grind and is spinning so furiously that I am getting nauseous from dizziness. When the truth emerges from the fog of rhetoric, I expect I will have an opinion about that and it may or may not be worth commenting on it.

The scandal buried in the Qatar/Air Force One story that is easy to understand is about Boeing, which apparently is unable to deliver on its 2018 contract to deliver two refurbished 747s by 2024. Their current timeline suggests that they MAY be able to deliver them 11 years late in 2035.

2035. The last time Boeing delivered modified 747s under the first Bush administration it took about 3 years from start to finish, not 17 years.

What do they think they are building? A space capsule or something? Come to think of it, Boeing can't do that either.

L3Harris, the same company Boeing has contracted to install the "complicated wiring" in their Air Force One replacements, is going to modify the former Qatari jet sometime this fall, doing in months what Boeing says it can't do in over a decade.

Granted, Boeing's task is somewhat more complicated than L3Harris'. I assume they will be installing more than communications gear into their replacement versions. But modifying two 747s, unless they are replacing the engines with perpetual motion machines, shouldn't take as long as designing and building a modern fighter aircraft from start to finish.

The planes are built, for God's sake. The air force can rebuild a fighter jet from two that CRASHED in less than three years, which seems pretty complicated to me.

ou can't tell me that the Air Force can do that in two and a half years, but that Boeing needs 17 to install wiring and make modest modifications to already built 747s.

I wouldn't want to say that Boeing's inability to do relatively basic things is a bigger scandal than any deal Trump may have made with Qatar, but it surely is more significant when it comes to the health of our nation's economy and defense infrastructure. Boeing is a key player in the American economy and will be building our next generation of fighter jets.

We better hope that they don't treat that contract the same way they have Starliner or Air Force One.

The Scandal Buried in the Air Force One Story

Quote:“We are demolishing more and more houses, they have nowhere to return to ... The only logical outcome would be the desire of the Gazans to emigrate abroad. Our main problem is finding countries willing to receive them,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last week while speaking to Israel's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

For the first time, Netanyahu told the committee, while referring to the plan to distribute humanitarian aid in Gaza, that receiving the aid would be contingent on the non-return of Gazans who receive it to the places from which they would arrive at the aid distribution sites. The explanation: In the places from which they came, they are mixed with Hamas members.

No country has yet agreed to accept forcibly displaced Palestinians under this plan, though discussions are reportedly ongoing.

Qatar and Egypt, key mediators in the talks, praised Hamas's decision as a step toward restarting negotiations and addressing the humanitarian crisis. Witkoff has also held indirect talks with Iran in Oman, indicating broader diplomatic engagement is underway.

Hamas to release US-Israeli captive in bid to revive Gaza ceasefire

Quote:The wrong people were convicted for a massive fireworks explosion in 2000 that leveled part of Enschede, left 23 people dead and 950 injured, De Groene Amsterdammer reports based on an investigation report by former whistleblower Paul van Buitenen. It was a government "cover-up affair", Van Buitenen concludes, according to the magazine.

Van Buitenen based his report on a secret file containing documents from the police and Public Prosecutor, which he received in 2014, and information from sources he found himself, according to the magazine. He shared his report confidentially with the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, who sought advice from the Dutch Safety Board. But last month the Dutch Safety Board refused to launch a new investigation, saying that the disaster happened too long ago.

Van Buitenen concludes that the Prosecutor's "tunnel vision" in the investigation can be attributed to great pressure after the disaster to quickly identify the guilty parties. Various ministers had a motive to conceal their own mistakes, he said, De Groene Amsterdamer reports.

Government cover-up alleged in fireworks disaster that killed 23, injured 950

Quote:BUENOS AIRES, May 11 (Reuters) - Dozens of boxes of Nazi material confiscated by Argentinean authorities during World War II were recently rediscovered in the Supreme Court's basement, the court said on Sunday.

The 83 boxes were sent by the Germany embassy in Tokyo to Argentina in June 1941 aboard the Japanese steamship "Nan-a-Maru," according to the history that the court was able to piece together, it said in a statement.

At the time, the large shipment drew the attention of authorities, who feared its contents could affect Argentina's neutrality in the war.

Despite claims at the time from German diplomatic representatives that the boxes held personal items, Argentine customs authorities searched five boxes at random.

They found postcards, photographs and propaganda material from the Nazi regime, as well as thousands of notebooks belonging to the Nazi party. A federal judge confiscated the materials, and referred the matter to the Supreme Court.

It was not immediately clear why the items were sent to Argentina or what, if any, action the Supreme Court took at the time.

Eighty-four years later, court staffers came across the boxes as they prepared for a Supreme Court museum.

"Upon opening one of the boxes, we identified material intended to consolidate and propagate Adolf Hitler's ideology in Argentina during the Second World War," the court said.

The court has now transferred the boxes to a room equipped with extra security measures, and invited the Holocaust Museum in Buenos Aires to participate in their preservation and inventory.

Experts will also examine them for any clues about still-unknown aspects of the Holocaust, such as international financing networks used by the Nazis.

Argentina's top court finds 80 boxes of Nazi materials in its basement

Quote:Despite modern rhetoric that the Nazi salute was an embarrassment to the English nation, contemporary views were much more complicated. For English newspapers, politicians and football officials, the salute was a gesture and nothing more. It was a far cry from what the BBC labelled in 2003, “one of the darkest moments in the sport”.

For English players the salute was arguably a much bigger problem but unfortunately it is difficult to know how far their anger extended. Those players present for the decision only wrote their memoirs decades after the fact at a time when anti-German sentiment was at its highest. As Simon Kuper argued many years ago, for contemporaries it’s likely that the salute was much ado about nothing.

So why do we as modern fans struggle with the image? Why do newspapers constantly use it as a source of English shame in sport? The answer, perhaps unsurprisingly, lies in the historical perspective. For us, the Nazi salute is a sign of support for a regime that by September 1939 would drag Europe into one of the bloodiest wars in modern history. For us, the gesture is an affirmation of a regime that committed unspeakable acts of violence.

This knowledge was not available to Henderson, Rous or the England players. For them, the salute was a gesture towards their hosts. A piece of footballing admin. For them it was an unimportant side element to the game at hand. For them, the real business was football. Though football is often politicised, the incident should be a stark reminder that football can only be politicised if we allow it to be. Through continuous re-telling of the event, we have forgotten the most important element of the game: England won 6-3. As a neutral to English football, that seems an altogether more important story.

The hand of Goebbels: England, Germany and the Nazi salute

Quote:Bronze bottoms prompt bothered brows on Strip (May 14, 1997)

It looked like some sort of Hollywood affair.

The front of the Riviera hotel-casino was crammed Tuesday with people eagerly awaiting the unveiling of what's without a doubt one of the community's most controversial pieces of public art.

Seven statuesque showgirls sauntered out dressed in sequinned red evening gowns. They lined up near a covered item attached to the front of the hotel. On a cue from a hotel executive, they dropped the drape.

There, in all its glory, stood life-size bronze nude backsides of the "Crazy Girls" showgirls in their trademark "No Ifs Ands Or ..." pose.

"We at the Riviera think showgirls are synonymous with the glamorous side of Las Vegas," said Bob Vannucci, vice president of marketing. "We feel this is as much a part of Las Vegas history as the million dollars on display at Binion's."

But not everyone is heralding the Riviera's contribution to the city's public art collection. Several members of the National Organization for Women were on the sidewalk Tuesday protesting.

"Now that I looked at it, it's as sexual as I thought it would be," said Anne Golonka of NOW. "It's kind of soft pornography because these statues are faceless."

Golonka is concerned that women and children walking on the sidewalk will be exposed to the bare buttocks. She wants the hotel to move the 11-by-6-foot, 1,540-pound bronze inside.

"They just cleared all the hardcore (smut peddlers) off the Strip," she said. "The hotel just felt this was great publicity."

Golonka is upset that the women's faces aren't shown, and that their sexuality is being exploited. Bettina Best, a Marilyn Monroe impersonator from the "Legends in Concert" show at the Imperial Palace Hotel, agreed.

"Whatever they do inside is up to them, but outside there are kids," Best said. "They are advertising this as patting the women on the butts for good luck. This actually induces sexual harassment because some people can't separate fantasy from reality."

The Crazy Girls, to no surprise, take exception to these views. Having spent two days last summer in 100-degree temperatures in a warehouse posing, they've come to appreciate the artistry of sculptor Michael Conine.

"I think it's exciting to go down in history," Kim Barranco said of her bronze image. "It's more definite than a poster."

"We are proud to be immortalized on the Strip," Karen Raider added. "We all have day jobs, and some have children. Every girl here is more than just body parts."

Conine, from Santa Fe, N.M., said the project was one of the most challenging he has ever undertaken. Each girl had to pose for three 20-minute sessions until full backside plaster body casts were made in three sections. Then they had to pose with the other women again to cast the arm-in-arm sections.

Twenty-two plaster pieces were cast, weighing a total of 400 pounds. The casts were then shipped to the Shidoni Foundry in Tesuque, N.M.

"Nudity has been in art since the beginning," Conine said. "Using the female nude in art is nothing new."

But Golonka said Conine's sculpture is not like fine art. She said the statue of David in Caesars Palace is a good example. It doesn't flaunt his sexuality, she said, and doesn't portray him in a controversial pose like the Crazy Girls.

Las Vegas Sun

Quote:‘Crazy Girls’ statue hauled away with show’s future uncertain

The topless show’s famous bronze statue was effectively evicted Tuesday morning from its position near Planet Hollywood’s Strip-facing entrance. This historic civic project required a heavy-duty fork lift, brought in after the original fork lift didn’t have enough “lift” to carry the ladies off the casino carpet.

The sculpture has since moved along with the show. A popular tourist attraction, producer Norbert Aleman’s prized visage would draw millions of visitors over the years. More than 1 million casino guests rubbed the statues’ rear ends at the Riv — Aleman had a counter set up to keep track — for “good luck.”

Those rear ends have been rubbed to a shine, further adding to the statue’s provenance.

The show’s producer says he is unsure of the statue’s monetary worth today (though the amount of bronze on the piece alone is likely worth $100K). But the original cost $325,000 in ‘97.

Aleman is poking around town, on and off the Strip, for a new home. He wants the right type of stage (especially a curtain), prefers a venue with a topless license (he’s not interested in taking his legendary topless show to pasties) and is determined to maintain the show’s historic integrity.

Quote:By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1.  Purpose.  The United States is drastically overregulated.  The Code of Federal Regulations contains over 48,000 sections, stretching over 175,000 pages — far more than any citizen can possibly read, let alone fully understand.  Worse, many carry potential criminal penalties for violations.  The situation has become so dire that no one -– likely including those charged with enforcing our criminal laws at the Department of Justice — knows how many separate criminal offenses are contained in the Code of Federal Regulations, with at least one source estimating hundreds of thousands of such crimes. Many of these regulatory crimes are “strict liability” offenses, meaning that citizens need not have a guilty mental state to be convicted of a crime.

This status quo is absurd and unjust. It allows the executive branch to write the law, in addition to executing it. That situation can lend itself to abuse and weaponization by providing Government officials tools to target unwitting individuals. It privileges large corporations, which can afford to hire expensive legal teams to navigate complex regulatory schemes and fence out new market entrants, over average Americans.

The purpose of this order is to ease the regulatory burden on everyday Americans and ensure no American is transformed into a criminal for violating a regulation they have no reason to know exists.

FIGHTING OVERCRIMINALIZATION IN FEDERAL REGULATIONS

Quote:The landmark deals celebrated today will drive innovation and prosperity for generations, bolster American manufacturing and technological leadership, and put America on the path to a new Golden Age.

Since President Trump took office, his commitment to American manufacturing and innovation has attracted trillions of dollars in investments and global commercial deals. Allies like Qatar are partnering in the United States’ success.

The following represent just a few of the many groundbreaking deals secured in Qatar:

Boeing and GE Aerospace secured a landmark order from Qatar Airways, a $96 billion agreement to acquire up to 210 American-made Boeing 787 Dreamliner and 777X aircraft powered by GE Aerospace engines. This is Boeing’s largest-ever widebody order and largest-ever 787 order. This historic agreement will support 154,000 U.S. jobs annually, totaling over 1 million jobs in the United States during the course of production and delivery of this deal.

McDermott has a strong partnership with Qatar Energy in advancing critical energy infrastructure, with seven active projects worth $8.5 billion. As the sole provider of offshore components for Qatar’s major LNG expansion, McDermott’s work directly supports thousands of U.S. energy sector jobs.

Parsons has successfully won 30 projects worth up to $97 billion. These high-value engagements have fueled significant company growth, supporting thousands of jobs across the United States and reinforcing American leadership in cutting-edge engineering and innovation.

Quantinuum finalized a Joint Venture Agreement with Al Rabban Capital, a prominent Qatari company. Qatar will invest up to $1 billion in state-of-the-art quantum technologies and workforce development provided by the Joint Venture, supporting U.S. and Qatari jobs and leadership in this critical emerging technology.

Today’s signings mark President Trump’s intent to accelerate Qatar’s defense investment in the U.S.-Qatar security  partnership—enhancing regional deterrence and benefitting the U.S. industrial base.

The defense deals secured today lock in Qatar’s procurement of state-of-the-art military equipment from two leading U.S. defense companies.

Raytheon, an RTX business, secured a $1 billion agreement for Qatar’s acquisition of counter-drone capabilities, signed by the U.S. and Qatari governments. This deal establishes Qatar as the first international customer for Raytheon’s Fixed Site – Low, Slow, Small Unmanned Aerial System Integrated Defeat System (FS-LIDS) designed to counter unmanned aircraft. The deal directly supports high-skilled manufacturing and engineering jobs in the United States and reinforces America’s leadership in innovative defense technologies.

General Atomics secured a nearly $2 billion agreement for Qatar’s acquisition of the MQ-9B remotely piloted aircraft system, signed by the U.S. and Qatari governments. This deal will strengthen the U.S.-Qatar bilateral relationship and provide the Qatari Armed Forces with the most advanced multi-mission remotely piloted aircraft in the world, powered by U.S. products made in America.

The United States and Qatar also signed a statement of intent to further strengthen our security partnership, outlining over $38 billion in potential investments including support for burden-sharing at Al Udeid Air Base and future defense capabilities related to air defense and maritime security.

These new agreements and instruments aim to drive the growth of the U.S.-Qatar bilateral commercial relationship, create thousands of well-paying jobs, and open new trade and investment opportunities for both countries over the coming decade and beyond.

Trump Secures Historic $1.2 Trillion Economic Commitment in Qatar