text: Qatar is exploring plans to invest $10 billion into US ports with the intent of improving East Coast operations. The Qatar government is seeking financial help from international banks that would back the investments for aging ports between Boston, Massachusetts and Jacksonville, Florida. The United States has focused a large portion of port investments on the West Coast, resulting in an underperforming supply chain on the East. (AC: Qatar is an unofficial state-sponsor of terrorism, and Qatari-backed media outlets engage in heavy information operations in the United States. Al Jazeera, which operations out of Doha, uses AJ+, an English language news service based in Washington D.C., to publish social justice propaganda to American markets. Allowing Qatar to have a controlling interest in US ports would be a mistake