In 2013, the Financial Times reported that Qatar had spent as much as $3bn bankrolling opposition groups in Syria. Jibhat al-Nusra is listed by the UN, US and EU as a terrorist group; however, it became the strongest armed group on the ground fighting for 'regime change' in Syria. Western media continues to wrongly refer to Jibhat al-Nusra as 'rebels' as they occupy Idlib today and hold about three million civilians as human shields.
In 2017, a number of Arab countries imposed a land blockade against Qatar and cut relations citing Qatar's support for terrorism.
David Cameron, former Prime Minister of the UK, fully supported the US-NATO 'regime change' project in Syria, designed to remove a secular president and replace him with a Muslim Brotherhood puppet who would be compliant with the West, and Israel.
The recent media reports on the case accusing Qatar have used the term 'secret' in describing the funneling of money to fund terrorists in Syria, but it was never secret, and everyone who was a victim of terrorism in Syria was well aware the money was coming from Qatar through Turkey, which served as the base of operations for the terrorists.
Turkey was the physical location, Qatar provided the funding, but it was the US Central Intelligence Agency's office in Southern Turkey that coordinated weapons, training, satellite imaging and logistics for the terrorists in Syria. Weapons were sent from Libya to Turkey via Hillary Clinton's ordered 'Rat Line' and handed over to the terrorists. Turkey used military trucks to ferry weapons across the border to Idlib, and, in one case, an American reporter witnessed a UN truck carrying arms and terrorists crossing the border. Serena Shim was killed shortly after her reporting.
In a 2017 interview, Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani, admitted that Qatar supplied financial support to the terrorists, but he explained that the money was supplied at the behest of the US. Jassim's defense points the finger of blame at former US President Obama, who was the co-architect of the war on Syria, alongside former French President Nicholas Sarkozy.
"Anything that went, went to Turkey and was coordinated with US forces," al-Thani explained on Qatari TV, while adding, "All distribution was done through the US and the Turks and us and everyone else that was involved, the military people." He had previously voiced similar admissions in an interview with the US journalist Charlie Rose. Qatar is home to the al-Udeid air base, hosting some 11,000 US soldiers, making it the largest US military base in the entire region.
Radical Islam is a political ideology, and all of the terrorists and so called 'rebels' were following Radical Islam. France's Macron now states that France is at war with Radical Islam after having suffered many terrorist attacks on French soil. However, Sarkozy, Obama, and Cameron knowingly supported terrorists in Syria for their narrow political agenda, to effect 'regime change'. A devastating terrorist attack involving innocent lives lost in Paris is a tragedy, but the same attack multiplied 100 times in Damascus is justified. Qatar, Turkey, US, EU, and the UK all have blood on their hands.
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