Abdullah bin Khalid Al Thani Abdullah bin Khalid Al Thani Abdullah bin Khalid (عبد الله بن خالد آل ثاني) was the former minister of interior of Qatar. He is a member of the House of Al Thani. He is the brother of Sheik Hamad bin Khalid Al Thani. Abdullah bin Khalid is also the former Qatari Minister of Islamic Affairs and Endowments. Al Thani was Qatar’s minister of religious affairs in 1996. He served as interior minister until 26 June 2013 and was replaced by Abdullah bin Nasser Al Thani in the post. Al Thani also served on Qatar’s Family Council responsible for authorizing the
Abdullah al-Thani after Islamist lawmakers convened a new meeting of the General National Congress in Tripoli and declared al-Thani dismissed, although he defended the elected Council of Deputies as "the only legitimate authority in the country". The next week, however, the Tobruk-based lawmakers reappointed al-Thani as prime minister and tasked him with forming a "crisis government". With Libya sliding into civil war between the two rival governments, al-Thani ordered General Khalifa Haftar to "liberate" Tripoli in October 2014. In March 2015, following the start of a military intervention in support of the internationally recognised government in Yemen, al-Thani compared the situation in