Janus-Faced Ally Meets Obama

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Several Washington think tanks over the last year have taken the Qatari government to task for failing to stanch the flow of its wealthy citizens’ private donations to radical groups in Syria and Iraq, a pattern of negligence against terror finance that stretches back over two decades.

The Foundation for Defense of Democracies issued a report in December accusing the Qatari authorities of “willful negligence” in enforcing anti-terrorist financing laws in the country that has benefited al Qaeda and other terrorist groups in Syria, Gaza, Somalia, South Asia and Iraq.

“The international community cannot successfully defeat terrorist groups such as the Islamic State, the Khorasan Group [an extreme bomb-making wing of al Qaeda] in Syria, and other manifestations of al-Qaeda ideology until terrorist finance of this sort is significantly curtailed,” David Andrew Weinberg, an FDD analyst, wrote in the paper.
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