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Nuclear power plants have become less economically attractive for Qatar with the fall in international oil and gas prices, a Qatari official said Monday. "Nuclear would not compete with the current price of gas for us," Yousuf Janahi, manager of corporate planning and business development at Qatar's state-owned power company Kahramaa, told Reuters on the sidelines of a nuclear energy conference. "It is less economically viable now, and less attractive. The potential costs are changing with the turmoil in financial markets, the economic slowdown and development of alternative fuels."

While the Republicans were nominating Sarah Palin - who reportedly believes the Bush-Cheney war of aggression against Iraq was inevitable, part of "God's plan" - French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in Damascus, warning the "leaders of Syria, Turkey and Qatar" that an Israeli attack on Iran also appears to be inevitable. In comments broadcast on Syrian television, Sarkozy said "One day - whatever the Israeli government - we could find one morning that Israel has struck.