Why are Hamas leaders in Qatar? Same reason Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, was there before a member of the Qatari royal family helped him escape ahead of the FBI coming in to get him.

American officials say the FBI and CIA just missed capturing the al Qaeda leader believed to have organized the 9/11 attacks — and now believed to be planning a new attack against Americans — because it appears he was protected and tipped off by a member of the royal family in Qatar, Abdullah Bin Khalid al-Thani.

In 1996, the FBI tracked Mohammed, under indictment on charges of terrorism, to Qatar’s capital city, Doha, and was within hours of capturing him.

“We had located Khalid Sheikh,” Cloonan told ABCNEWS. “We were prepared to fly the plane in and to take him out.”

But Cloonan says Mohammed was tipped off shortly after Qatar officials were told of the plan and headed for the airport.

Same reason Taliban leaders were there. Or how the Qataris got our people killed in Benghazi.

Qatar made itself into a hub for the Muslim Brotherhood, the group behind Hamas and Al Qaeda, and various Islamist operations around the world.

It’s an enemy of America, Israel and the entire civilized world, but it also engages in bribery on a global scale at almost unthinkable levels, it deploys a worldwide propaganda machine, Al Jazeera, and despite being a tiny slave state with a small population, punches far above its weight.

We should not be in Qatar. And Qatar should not be in America.