“Is Qatar putting the squeeze on the Anti-Taliban resistance?”, Me Forum, January 23, 2024:
“The Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, and subsequent hostage crisis have put Qatar, the tiny Persian Gulf gas giant, in the limelight. Even as the State Department works with Qatari officials to free hostages, questions circulate within Congress about how much Qatar knew about the Hamas attack and when. Calls to designate Qatar a state sponsor of terror are increasingly mainstream.
Qatar both denies culpability and insists its ties with the United States are stronger than ever. Qatari diplomats argue that its relations with Hamas and other radical groups are at the service and request of Washington and Jerusalem that encouraged Doha to play middleman with groups that neither wanted to engage directly.
Hamas is not the only radical Islamist or terror group that Qatar embraces, however. Doha has become a one-stop legitimation and money laundering service for radical Islamist and terror groups from the Middle East to Africa and from South Asia to North America. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blessed the establishment of a Taliban political office in Qatar. It operated informally beginning in January 2012 though only opened formally the following year.
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