Is Qatar A State Sponsor Of Terror?

Qatar's promotion of extremism has infuriated its neighbours Photo: REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen

How Qatar Is Funding The Rise Of Islamist Extremists -- The Telegraph

The fabulously wealthy Gulf state, which owns an array of London landmarks and claims to be one of our best friends in the Middle East, is a prime sponsor of violent Islamists

Few outsiders have noticed, but radical Islamists now control Libya's capital. These militias stormed Tripoli last month, forcing the official government to flee and hastening the country's collapse into a failed state.

Moreover, the new overlords of Tripoli are allies of Ansar al-Sharia, a brutal jihadist movement suspected of killing America's then ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and of trying to murder his British counterpart, Sir Dominic Asquith.

Barely three years after Britain helped to free Libya from Col Gaddafi's tyranny, anti-Western radicals hold sway. How could Britain's goal of a stable and friendly Libya have been thwarted so completely?

Step forward a fabulously wealthy Gulf state that owns an array of London landmarks and claims to be one of our best friends in the Middle East.

Qatar, the owner of Harrods, has dispatched cargo planes laden with weapons to the victorious Islamist coalition, styling itself "Libya Dawn".

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Update: Is this the man who is funding these terror networks? .... Former head of human rights charity accused of leading double life as terrorist fundraiser (The Telegraph)

My Comment: Why has Qatar not been sanctioned by the West .... two reasons .... little if any reporting on what they are doing (until now), and the fact that they (like Saudi Arabia) have tens of billions of dollars invested in the West.