White House says Israel informed US about Qatar strike
Israel notified the United States before it carried out air strikes on senior Hamas leaders in the Qatari capital Doha, a White House official said Tuesday.
"We were informed in advance," the official told AFP on condition of anonymity about the strike on Qatar, a key U.S. ally that's home to a large U.S. military base.
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BBC Trump says he only learned of the attack from the US military - the US then tried to warn Qatar, but it was "too late".
Jerusalem Post In comments to the press later, Trump went on to say that he was not informed in advance about the strike, but that he is “never surprised by anything, especially when it comes to the Middle East. I was very unhappy about every aspect of [it.]”
So why didn't the anonymous official inform the President?
