What do we know about Qatar? We know that it is the only Gulf Arab country that is well-disposed toward the terror state of Iran. And it is also a stout supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood. The leading ideologue of the Muslim Brotherhood is Yousef al-Qaradawi, the Egyptian-born cleric who spews his antisemitic and anti-Infidel venom from his secure base in Qatar. Qatar funds the antisemitic and anti-Western television broadcaster and on-line newspaper, Al Jazeera, which is a major source of biased news about the Middle East. It is in Qatar that the former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal, reputed to have stolen between $2.5 and $5 billion from aid meant for the Palestinians, now makes his home. The Qataris themselves can afford to be largely indolent; 88% of the population of Qatar consists of foreigners who do all the work in the emirate; the Qataris are waited on hand-and-foot, from cradle to grave. Their fabulous wealth, based on reserves of natural gas, is the result not of hard work or entrepreneurial flair, but of an accident of geology.
Qatar’s support for both Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood has angered many of its neighbors. Between 5 and 6 June 2017, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Yemen, Egypt, the Maldives, and Bahrain all separately broke relations with Qatar. Since then, Saudi Arabia, the UEA, Egypt, and Bahrain have instituted a land, sea, and air blockade of Qatar. They had hoped to change Qatar’s policy toward Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, but so far there has been no visible effect.
Qatar is also the site of the largest American military base in the Middle East, the Al Udeid airbase, which houses about 11,000 servicemen. It is apparently the desire to hold onto that base that has prevented the American government from reading Qatar the riot act for its support of Iran, Hamas, the Islamic State. But with Qatar’s financial support of Hezbollah now having been revealed, it’s time for the American government to rethink its indulgent attitude toward the mendacious emirate.
Here is the story about Qatar’s support for Hezbollah:
A German private security contractor, who has worked for the federal republic’s intelligence and security services, leveled bombshell allegations against Qatar’s regime, stating Doha finances the US and EU-designated terrorist movement Hezbollah and has declared Jews to be the enemies of the tiny Gulf state.
The German weekly news outlet Die Zeit first reported on Friday about the security contractor Jason G. who obtained explosive details about Qatari terror finance.
In Doha, G. came across some unsavory information. There was an alleged arms deal with war munitions from Eastern Europe that was supposed to be handled by a company in Qatar. And there were alleged money flows from several rich Qataris and exiled Lebanese people from Doha to Hezbollah – the organization that is part of the government in Lebanon but is internationally outlawed as a terrorist organization and has been banned in Germany since April. The donations are said to have been processed with the knowledge of influential government officials through a charity organization in Doha,” wrote the veteran Zeit journalists Yassin Musharbash and Holger Stark.
The paper added that “a thick dossier with compromising material emerged, which Zeit was able to see in parts and which is somewhat explosive: Israel and the USA have long been trying to dry out [the finances of] Hezbollah. Concrete evidence that money is flowing from the Gulf to terrorist groups would increase pressure on Qatar and may lead to sanctions.”
G. met with Michael Inacker, who works for the German public relations company WMP, and is well connected to a top Qatari diplomat who was not named in the article. WMP also did work for Qatar’s regime….
The paper reported that “according to Jason G., because of Inacker’s mediation, there were half a dozen meetings between G. and the Qatari diplomat.”
Die Zeit further wrote that “according to G., ugly comments about Israel had also been made at one of the meetings, the [Qatari]diplomat said that they had learned from the ground up that the Jews were their enemies.”…
G. said he received € 10,000 a number of times from Qatar’s diplomat, including an additional € 100,000 over a period of months.
The paper reported that Qatar’s regime offered G. € 750,000 in exchange for remaining silent about his knowledge of Qatar’s financing of Hezbollah….
Die Zeit wrote that “neither the government of the Emirate nor the Qatari ambassador in Berlin want to comment on the details, a government spokesman from Doha merely says that Qatar ‘plays a central role in international efforts to combat terrorism and extremism in the Middle East.’ The country has ‘strict laws to prevent private terrorism from being financed,’ and anyone caught doing so will be punished with all the harshness of the law.”
Yet, Qatar has long been accused of financing terrorism in the Middle East. The monarchy state provides organizational space to the the US and EU-designated terrorist movement Hamas, as well as for the Taliban. Qatar has also built a strong alliance with the Islamic Republic of Iran – the worst state-sponsor of global terrorism, according to both the Obama and Trump administrations.
In 2014, German Development Minister Gerd Mueller accused Qatar of financing Islamic State terrorists. “This kind of conflict, this kind of a crisis always has a history … The ISIS troops, the weapons – these are lost sons, with some of them from Iraq,” Mueller told German public broadcaster ZDF.
In 2014, the German government had evidence that Qatar was funding Islamic State terrorists. It surely shared this information with its NATO partners, especially with the American government, which continues not only to have diplomatic relations with a country that should be placed beyond the pale, but retains its military airbase Al Udeid in Qatar that provides the Emirate with a sense of security – of American protection – which it has done nothing to merit and to which it should not be entitled. There are many other places In the Middle East, including several places right on the Gulf, where American forces might instead be placed. There are five airbases in Saudi Arabia that the U.S. forces now at Al Udeid could transfer to, including two right on the Gulf. The Riyadh Airbase is in the middle of Saudi Arabia, from where planes could easily patrol the Arabian (quondam Persian) Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the Saudi oil fields. There is the gigantic King Fahd Air Base – the largest in the world – at present an inactivated military airfield that currently is used for commercial and civilian flights. It holds the record for the largest and widest airport in the world, covering over 780 square km. It is located in the eastern part of the country, about 20 km away from Dammam. There would be no need to build it out further to handle military aircraft. And it is located in eastern Saudi Arabia, right next to the oilfields that Iran, and its Houthi proxies, have tried to damage.
There is also the possibility of establishing an air base in Oman. Oman is the most stable of Arab states. A majority of its population belong to the Ibadi sect of Islam, which keeps the Sunni-Shi’a enmity — so damaging elsewhere — from harming Oman’s domestic tranquility. It is pro-Western. It is well-disposed toward Israel. The late Sultan Qaboos invited Prime Minister Netanyahu for a cordial visit in 2018. The celebrated scholar of the Persian Gulf, who was also a former adviser to Sheih Zayed of Abu Dhabi, the late J. B.Kelly, always claimed that the best site, the natural site, for an American air base in the Gulf region was in Oman, and he didn’t understand why so little interest was displayed for this idea. He did note that Oman, unlike all the other Gulf Arab states, did not have a small army of lobbyists working for it in Washington. “In fact,” Kelly once told me, “I don’t think they had even one.”
A third site for an American air base – to replace Al Udeid in Qatar — might be found is in the Sinai. The Israelis built three modern bases in the Sinai; they would need some improvements but are otherwise ready for the Americans to move in. Nothing would need to be built from scratch. The neighbors on both sides – Egypt and Israel – would welcome a reassuring American presence. From a base in the Sinai American planes could monitor conflicts, and project airpower, across the Red Sea to Yemen, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, all the way down to Oman and the Gulf of Oman, and in the west, cover Egypt and much of the Maghreb.
“You have to ask who is arming, who is financing ISIS troops. The keyword there is Qatar – and how do we deal with these people and states politically?” said [German Development Minister] Mueller.
An American withdrawal from its airbase in Qatar would be a good start. It would provide a salutary lesson, for Qatar itself and for others who might consider themselves sufficiently valuable to American security – as Qatar now does – that they can get away with supporting terror states and terror groups. They must be disabused of this belief. Qatar has managed so far to be protected by an implicit American security blanket (the Al Udeid airbase), and yet still manages to support terrorists. But with the latest revelations about Doha’s support for Hezbollah, possibly it won’t get away with this for much longer.
spiro says
What !
Moslems funding Moslem
I’m shocked. I tell ya shocked !!!!
gravenimage says
What A Surprise! Qatar Funds Hezbollah
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No surprise here…
Phil Copson says
So who would be the first to replace the US in Qatar – Russia or China ?
Reziac says
No, really?? Read. Become enlightened about Qatari purchasing habits.
https://www.docdroid.net/DtiLYBH/bender-affidavit-pdf
Sabri S. says
Qatar is and has always been a favorite country of us Muslims. Bigots must be furious. A prosperous muslim country will always solicit a negative response from infidels. Just like a successful black or brown man in America angers a racists. Great job Qatar!! Keep up the great work of presenting a highly successful MUSLIM country to the world. It is an example of what america could be again within the next 50 years if they accept Islam.
RichardL says
I am still chuckling. My wife’s family is actually from Qatar. Qataris are successful? They have achieved nothing. Even the oil and gas is extracted by foreigners. That is islamic success par excellence, you are right. What can one do if a disease called allah is eating your brain?
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
Sabri S,
You have no credibility on Jihad Watch. Zero.
What you are is a “very devout” muslim.
Back in May, you posted that the father did the right thing by beheading his 13-year-old daughter.
Here’s the proof:
Islamic Republic of Iran: Father beheads his 13-year-old daughter in honor killing
MAY 27, 2020 11:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER
“Sabri S. says
May 28, 2020 at 5:49 am
No, they are not barbarians…far from it. What would be barbaric would be to allow teenage girls to run around like immoral whores, getting pregnant, spreading STDs, and becoming single mother welfare queens – just like in the US and Europe! This father did the right thing, as uncomfortable as it may be for westernized hypocrites to admit. He protected his family, stood up for his culture, and sent a definitive deterrent to any other dumb teenage whores that this behavior is not to be tolerated at any level. The alternative would be to allow the degeneracy, immorality and societal garbage in that has brought down civilizations since the beginning of time. America and Europe are doomed – period and fact. Islam is the best way to live. Look at the declining west and no intelligent, moral person would accept that decay. In fact, in America, muslims don’t and won’t!!!!!! count on it. We never submit or integrate into your garbage, inferior immorality. Allah U Akbar and onward muslim soldiers in the US, Europe and beyond!!!!!!!!!!”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/05/islamic-republic-of-iran-father-beheads-his-13-year-old-daughter-in-honor-killing
gravenimage says
Yes, James–horrifying. Thank you for citing Sabri S.’s barbarism here.
This is what he considers “the best way to live”–A Muslim man beheading his little 13-year-old daughter. *Ugh*.
And then he makes it clear that he want to bring this savagery to the civilized West, as well.
gravenimage says
Sabri S. wrote:
Qatar is and has always been a favorite country of us Muslims.
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Of course Sabri S. loves Qatar–they are funding Jihad terrorists.
More:
Bigots must be furious.
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As I noted, their funding Jihad terror comes as no surprise. And how is it “bigoted” to oppose the horrors of Jihad terror? Only a pious Muslim would think so.
More:
A prosperous muslim country will always solicit a negative response from infidels. Just like a successful black or brown man in America angers a racists. Great job Qatar!! Keep up the great work of presenting a highly successful MUSLIM country to the world. It is an example of what america could be again within the next 50 years if they accept Islam.
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Where to start? Any success Qatar has is from its unearned oil wealth, which calls for Infidel engineers and workers to make use of. Qatar was one of the world’s poorest countries just prior to 1973.
And even with this accidental wealth, Qatar’s per capita GDP is still less than is America’s. Why would we want to make less money, exactly?
And Sabri S.’s claim that Americans hate successful people of color is of course claptrap–figures like Oprah and Morgan Freeman, in fact, are hugely popular across the color spectrum.
And the US has a huge and varied economy–even if we were to lose all of our oil wealth tomorrow, we would still be the wealthiest nation in the world.
We see what Muslim nations without oil wealth are like–crap holes like Somalia and Yemen. We see what civilized Infidel nations are like without oil–economic dynamos like Israel.
Really, the slovenliness of Inshallah fatalism and constant threat of Jihad terror makes Islam a huge destroyer of economies.
Joe Scott says
Bollocks to Hezbollocks …
OLD GUY says
The U.S. should get out of these muslim countries and cut off all foreign aid, we are simply paying for these governments to build military and terrorist groups that will be used against us. When we pull out we should destroy what we have built, oil fields, production facilities and ports. We are supporting the enemy.
Eli says
Patriot sources…..Biden is already catering to Muslims, pleading for their vote and quoting the Qu’ran. He will promote more of Qatar’s Arab classes in America, if Americans aren’t informed of this danger. Maybe it’s good more children are being homeschooled if they are selective in their curriculum. Marxist trained, Patrisse Cullor, co founder of the Marxist BLM has a Woke County teaching resource “dressed up as a legitimate civics education resource complete with tips for fostering civil discourse,” ………and civil rights movement. Qatar’s foot in the door in American education should be a big concern. I tried to alert politicians, but since many are pro Socialism or Muslims, unsure if they’re concerned or know what to do. They are overwhelmed. We sure appreciated Robert Spencer and his team on TCT years ago.