With Allies Like This, Who Needs Enemies

U.S. Ally Qatar Shelters Jihadi Moneymen -- Jamie Dettmer, Daily Beast

The world's most two-faced nation fights ISIS while letting terrorists raise money. Why won't Washington stop them?

WASHINGTON, D.C.—It has been dubbed the most two-faced nation in the world, backing the U.S.-led coalition against the militants of the Islamic State while providing a permissive environment, in the words of one top American official, for terrorist financiers to operate with impunity. And despite a growing furor on both sides of the Atlantic, Qatar, the tiny but super-wealthy Gulf emirate, shows scant willingness to clamp down on the jihad moneymen. Indeed, it may never unless Western powers start raising the political stakes.

A new report identifies more than 20 funders designated as terrorist-linked by the U.S. or UN who have benefited from a mixture of benign neglect or support in Doha. “With every important case of suspected terror finance involving a Qatari national in past years, the government in Doha has refused effectively to crack down,” according to the study, “Qatar and Terror Finance,” released Wednesday by the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based think tank.

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My Comment: As a reader once commented ... the U.S. will keep quiet because it's military has major assets in the country, and Qatar is (supposedly) playing a critical role in U.S. war strategy against the Islamic State.