How Our Allies in Kuwait and Qatar Funded Islamic State

The Gulf states of Kuwait and Qatar have actively – and openly – helped terrorist money-raising efforts for Isil

In the great jihadi funding bazaar that is the Gulf state of Kuwait, there’s a terror finance option for every pocket, from the private foundations dealing in tens of millions to the more retail end of the market. Give enough for 50 sniper bullets (50 dinars, about £110), promises the al-Qaeda and Islamic State-linked cleric tweeting under the name “jahd bmalk”, and you will earn “silver status”. Donate 100 dinars to buy eight badly needed mortar rounds, and he’ll make you a “gold status donor”.

As the jihadi funders hand out loyalty cards, the West has belatedly realised that some of its supposed friends in the Gulf have been playing the disloyalty card. Had Kuwait not been freed by American, British and allied troops in 1991, it would presumably now still be the “19th province” of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. But the emirate has repaid the Western blood and treasure spent in its liberation by becoming, in the words of David Cohen, the US undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, the “epicentre of funding for terrorist groups in Syria”.

Islamic State (Isil), with its newly conquered territory, oilfields and bank vaults, no longer needs much foreign money. But its extraordinarily swift rise to this point, a place where it threatens the entire region and the West, was substantially paid for by the allies of the West. Isil’s cash was raised in, or channelled through, Kuwait and Qatar, with the tacit approval and sometimes active support of their governments.

Qatar seems to be funding a lot of terror groups, no?
All those Qatari Airline ads on CNN, BBC, Sky News...

They’re SO friendly and kind of “Westernized”.

They spread their wealth all over GB and the rest of the world and then fund HAMAS, MB, ISIS, etc. to kill us.

How long will the cash flow and the Infidels die?

This is my question. As it is common knowledge that a lot of funding has been stemming from Kuwait and Qatar, why has the US and other Western governments not being putting tons of pressure on them to stop? Those 100 Dinars that bought that handful of mortars may cost four American lives if/when those mortars are converted into an IED that takes out a vehicle. That paltry 5 Dinars may purchase the round that some sniper with a Dragunov uses to make some young woman a widow.

I can understand why the government doesn't go after Saudi Arabia (oil) or Pakistan (a volatile government that just happens to have atomic weapons). But Kuwaiti and Qatari oil reserves are not that huge and they simply don't have the same level of influence outside certain areas (ironically journalism, sports sponsorship and terrorism sponsorship).

Why is the US government not doing anything? Why are the Congress critters not being pressured to raise this issue? Why are their phones not ringing off the hook?

My home country is nowhere as developed as the US, but when people realized the rot that had led to terrorists coming to a neighborhood in our capital city to live and thrive, while all the while planning attacks on us, we had a twitter campaign so massive that the entire immigration procedures were changed (the Somalis were buying Kenyan citizenship) and people were transferred. If us backwater folk can do that, why are you letting your Congress critters remain passive while countries like Kuwait and Qatar raise funds to start movements that your sons and daughters may have to eventually face?

"Qatar seems to be funding a lot of terror groups, no?...-Netz

The Long Arm of Qatar ...extensive hyperlinked report ties Turkey and the U.S. To IS/ISIS/ISIL nightmare
In addition to the above, further confirmation of this administrations complicity, consider:
Obama's preference for the identity of ISIL vs. IS or ISIS... via Financial Times
&
Flashback: Here's What’s Happened Since President Obama Freed the Leader of ISIS 5 Years Ago

"In June, we learned that the head of ISIS, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, had been in US custody but was released in 2009 when President Obama closed down Camp Bucca in preparation for the US withdrawal of troops (yes, the withdrawal he repeatedly denies having anything to do with) from Iraq.

*****via NewEnglishReview.org/Iconoclast
American Think Tanks Receive Tens of Millions from Foreign Governments
Hugh Fitzgerald: "Morsi Accused Of Treason -- Giving State Secrets To Qatar"
It's unclear if those secrets were given to the government of Qatar, or to its propaganda outlet (the propaganda slightly better camouflaged in the English-language version of the channel) Al Jazeera. But Qatar, in its support of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, of "Islamists" in Libya, of Hamas in Gaza and the territories, of the Al-Nusra Front in Syria, and of ISIS in northern Iraq, has earned the right to be slapped down, read the riot act, had its assets seized, by the American and other Western governments. And as part of this taming of Qatar, should not its rich, beginning with members of the Al-Thani family, be prevented from owning property in Paris and London and New York, be prevented perhaps even from travelling to the West -- that would get their attention, for what fabulously rich Qatari, Saudi, Kuwaiti, Emirati could stand living full-time in their own wretched countries, when they can have such a good time, with their bank accounts, in the West. What if the entire West were declared off-limits to those people, in any Muslim country, whose government or elites have been found to have been supporting ISIS and the hundred other similar violent-Jihad groups? The spigot, and the arms, would be cut off at once. Qatar can't llive without access to the West. The West can get along very well without Qatar."

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