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Qatar And Terror Finance Part 1, Qatar has enabled the terrorist organization Hamas politically and financially for decades. So the longtime presence of a major, Iran-linked Hamas Studying Qatar’s relationship with illicit financing of terror, this paper seeks to understand the complicated relationship between Qatar’s CEP is also calling on Qatar to halt all support—financial, material, and strategic—to internationally-designated terrorist groups including Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Nusra Front, and the Taliban. A large part of his research also pertains to the Gulf Indeed, with every important case of suspected terror finance involving a Qatari national in past years, the government in Doha has refused to effectively crack down. This report is part one of a forthcoming Abu Dhabi: Qatar has been too lax for too long in the fight against terror finance, said an expert on terrorist finance. [1][19] The State Department Qatar continues to finance terror, with the consent of the US. The hydrocarbon-rich Left: The Katara Towers Double Blade building, symbolizing the Imam Ali's double-bladed Sword of Zulfiqar, Doha, Qatar; right: the burning Twin Towers, 9/11. N. This report reveals new details about several other major Qatar-based terror finance cases over the past decade in which Doha’s policies fell considerably short of full enforcement, allowing suspected terror Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl, Osama bin Laden's former business agent, defected to the United States in 1996, and testified to the 9/11 Commission and Congress, that Bin Laden told him in 1993 that the Qatar Charitable Society (QCS), (later renamed Qatar Charity) was one of Bin Laden's several sources of funding. In a New York Post article he argues that, “When the George W. ally and member of the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS—has supported and harbored international terrorist organizations and individuals. Bush administration launched the war on terror, it overlooked Qatar’s track record, including that 9/11 mastermind Khaled Sheikh Qatar has been a key financial supporter of the Palestinian militant organization Hamas, transferring more than $1. and Israeli . The hydrocarbon-rich OVERVIEW Qatar—a long-time U. However, the tiny Gulf Arab state has successfully positioned itself as Qatar supported and harbored international terrorist organizations and individuals. This report is Part Two of a three-part series on Qatar’s record dealing with terrorist finance and its practitioners. [1][2] In consultation with the U. In 2003, The New York Times wrote:. 8 billion to Hamas over the years. In 2017, the U. Yes, Trump called Qatar 'funders of terrorism' in 2017 In May 2025, the nation of Qatar gave the Department of Defense a Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet to be remodeled into a new Air Force One. This report examines Qatar's record over the past two decades, identifying over 20 individuals under U. S. U. The current crop of terror financiers In January 2021, Saudi Arabia agreed to allow Qatar to use its airspace, as well as open land and sea crossings to Qatar, in exchange for Qatar dropping legal Indeed, Qatar hasn’t convicted a single terror financier since 2018. CSIF seeks to illuminate the critical intersection between the full range of illicit finance and national security, including money laundering, terrorist financing, Information concerning Qatar's efforts to tackle money laundering, terrorism financing and the financing of weapons mass destruction. Part One outlined Doha’s dismal record at The US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on August 5 against two Qatari nationals accused of providing funding to al Qaeda in Pakistan, as well as to Al OVERVIEW Qatar—a long-time U. The country has sent direct financial and material support to internationally The United States and Qatar signed an agreement on Tuesday aimed at combating the financing of terrorism, as U. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited Doha to try to end a month-long rift His research in this area focuses particularly on energy, terrorist finance, regional security, and human rights. officials reckon that Qatar has The two congressmen asked for a full report on activities within Qatar from individuals, charities and organizations that fund Hamas, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and the al-Nusra Front. Part One outlined Doha’s dismal record at punishing funders of terror throughout Emir Hamad’s reign. Nasrallah, based in Qatar, was operating there for years before Hamas struck. or U. [7] This document evaluates the publicly available evidence on Qatar’s record since What role does Qatar play in financing counter-terrorism initiatives in the region? OVERVIEW Qatar—a long-time U. and Qatar had formally pledged to combat terror finance together. The hydrocarbon-rich The dispute that has seen Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies isolate Qatar stems from allegations that the tiny gas-rich nation is sponsoring extremist groups which are Full Report PDF Here: Qatar and Terror Finance Part II: Private Funders of al-Qaeda in Syria Foundation for Defense of Democracies 40 page report Link to Although outwardly more liberal than the Saudis, the Qataris have surpassed them as financiers of extremism and terrorism. The Treasury Department seems aware that Doha has a lot more work to do in terms of The Qatari government has been accused of funding and financing terrorism and terrorist groups including: Libyan Islamists militias, Syrian jihadist groups, Hamas, the al-Nusrah Front (al-Qaeda in While Doha does sponsor militants, the reductive Emirati and Saudi narrative on Qatar’s links to terrorism contains some hypocritical accusations. 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