pUNITED NATIONS ? For years, the tiny oil sheikdom of Qatar has been a reliable U.S. partner in the Middle East ? as a host to the largest American military base in the region and as a diplomatic bulwark against Iran. It has backed the fall of autocratic rulers in Libya and Syria./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/qatars-support-for-islamists-muddles-its-reputation-as-neutral-broker-in-mideast/2012/11/28/a9f8183a-f92e-11e1-8398-0327ab83ab91_story.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/2612c537/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/151538747220/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2612c537/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/151538747220/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2612c537/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/151538747220/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/2612c537/a2t.img" border="0"/