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Some personnel have been told to leave Qatar's major US military base over "regional tensions", Doha said, while Saudi Arabia's US mission urged caution as Washington and Iran traded threats of military action.
The United States has repeatedly warned it could intervene against a deadly Iranian government crackdown on protests, while Tehran has said it would strike US military and shipping targets if attacked.
The precautions at Al Udeid, the region's biggest US base, are "in response to
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