# Al Udeid remains the principal US air base in the Gulf during the blockade

Date: 2017

## The fact

In June 2017, during the blockade, Al Udeid Air Base continued as the principal US air-operations hub in the Gulf. Tamim’s government kept the basing relationship.

## Context

The US did not join the blockade. He used the base as a security hedge. He did not write a Pentagon order. Later Afghanistan 2021 used the hub.

The blockade is 5 June. Kabul 2021 uses the channel.

The emir of Qatar is head of state and, in practice, of government under the 2004 constitution as applied. He does not write FIFA statutes, UN Security Council resolutions, Hamas military orders, or ILO conventions by himself.

## Evidence and sources

Amiri Diwan of Qatar carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

## What is established and what is not

Established: June 2017 continuity of Al Udeid as a US hub during the blockade, independently reported.

Not established: that the base prevented the blockade, or a unique later sortie coefficient as his authorship.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The US operated the hub. He did not join the four.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Al Udeid remains the principal US air base in the Gulf during the blockade, not a later speech about Al Udeid remains the principal US air base in the Gulf during the blockade.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Al Udeid remains the principal US air base in the Gulf during the blockade on 2017-06-15 is not a licence to treat every later Amiri Diwan of Qatar communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Al Udeid remains the principal US air base in the Gulf during the blockade into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He kept the basing relationship. The US operated the hub. He did not join the four. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Tamim bin Hamad Al: https://factrail.ai/people/tamim-bin-hamad-al-thani

## Drivers

- Energy Security: https://factrail.ai/drivers/energy-security

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gulf-qatar-usa-idUSKBN19C0K4
- https://www.diwan.gov.qa/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/qa-us-al-udeid