Qatar’s regime funneled $15 million dollars to the Islamist movements in northern Mali and to an entity in the Sahel, according to a reportedly leaked Qatari document.
In 2012, a number of French-language news outlets reported that Qatar financed Islamists in northern Mali.
Qatar, for example, continues to send so-called aid and food every day to the airports of Gao and Timbuktu.”.
Former Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani (HBJ) called for dialogue with the Islamists in Mali at the time.
In a 2017 Congressional hearing, the Qatari regime was accused of financing a wide range of Islamist terrorist organizations.
In November, i24NEWS reported that an alleged Qatari document revealed that Doha sent 3 million euros to Human Rights Watch.
MEMRI’s president and founder, Yigal Carmon, said “Qatar is Hamas and Hamas is Qatar. »