Pool report #5 - Arrival at Air Base

First a correction to previous report: we started rolling from the St Regis hotel at 11:15, not 10:15, your pooler apologizes for the error.

The motorcade pulled up next to a big hangar at Al Udeid Air Base at 12:12 am after an uneventful drive along closed roads and under dusty skies, through a flat desertic landscape punctuated by tall electricity pylons.

At regular intervals police officers were standing guard next to their vehicles, facing away from the convoy.

Shortly before entering the base your pooler spotted a couple of bright red Tesla Cybertrucks, the same type of vehicles that escorted the presidential motorcade when it first drove through Doha yesterday. They belong to the Qatari internal security forces (Lekhwiya).

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