Qatari royal family member authorized arms supply to Hezbollah - dossier
A dossier provided by security contractor, Jason G., documented the role played since 2017 by a Qatari royal family member in a sprawling terror finance scheme.
Qatar’s monarchy has financed weapons deliveries to Hezbollah, a private-security contractor told The Jerusalem Post this week.Jason G., who claims to have worked for Western intelligence agencies as well as being a consultant to the Gulf state, said he penetrated Qatar’s weapons-procurement business as part of an apparent sting operation.A “member of the royal family” authorized the delivery of military hardware to the US- and EU-designated terrorist entity Hezbollah in Lebanon, he told the Post.A dossier provided by Jason G. documented the alleged role played since 2017 by a Qatari royal family member in a sprawling scheme to finance terrorism.The Lebanese Hezbollah organization is an Iranian proxy Shi’ite militia, established by Tehran’s Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Lebanon in 1982. It remains dependent on Iranian finance and support.Abdulrahman bin Mohammed Sulaiman al-Khulaifi, Qatar’s ambassador to Belgium and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), allegedly sought to pay Jason G. €750,000 to hush up the role of Qatar’s regime in supplying money and weapons to Hezbollah.At a January 2019 meeting with Khulaifi in Brussels, the envoy said, “The Jews are our enemies,” Jason G. said.Jason G., who uses an alias to shield himself from Qatari retaliation, said his goal was for “Qatar to stop funding extremists.” The “bad apples need to be taken out of the barrel and for them [Qatar] to be part of the international community,” he added.
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Jason G. said his dossier was viewed by top German intelligence officials, and it could fetch as much as €10 million, German weekly Die Zeit reported last month. This has not been verified by the Post.Qatar’s financial and charity systems have been embroiled in other alleged terrorism finance schemes. A lawsuit filed in New York City asserted that Qatari institutions, including Qatar Charity (formerly known as the Qatar Charitable Society) and Qatar National Bank, funded Palestinian terrorist organizations, the Washington Free Beacon reported in June.The plaintiffs in the case included the family of Taylor Force, an American military veteran killed by the Palestinian Sunni terrorist organization Hamas in 2016.“Qatar co-opted several institutions that it dominates and controls to funnel coveted US dollars [the chosen currency of Middle East terrorist networks] to Hamas and PIJ [Palestinian Islamic Jihad] under the false guise of charitable donations,” the lawsuit reads.In 2014, German Development Minister Gerd Müller accused Qatar of financing Islamic State terrorists.“This kind of conflict, this kind of a crisis always has a history... The ISIS troops, the weapons – these are lost sons, with some of them from Iraq,” he told German public broadcaster ZDF.“You have to ask who is arming, who is financing ISIS troops,” Müller said. “The keyword there is Qatar – and how do we deal with these people and states politically.”The energy-rich Qatari monarchy is a “Club Med for terrorists,” Ron Prosor, at the time Israeli ambassador to the UN, wrote in The New York Times opinion section in 2014.
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