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
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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.
Though this has not yet been widely understood in Europe, it is no secret.
Throughout 2013 and the earlier part of this year, on TV stations, websites
and social media in Kuwait and Qatar, the jihadis openly solicited money for
weapons and troops, much as charities in Britain might seek donations for
tents and food. One of the main Oxfams of jihad is a group called the Kuwait
Scholars’ Union (KSU), which ran a number of major fundraising drives,
including the “Great Kuwait Campaign”, raising several million dollars for
anti-aircraft missiles, rocket-propelled grenades and fighters. Some of the
money went to Isil and some to the al-Qaeda front Jabhat al-Nusra, Isil’s
ally until this February.
“By Allah’s grace and his success, the Great Kuwait Campaign announces the
preparation of 8,700 Syrian mujahideen,” announced the KSU’s president,
Nabil al-Awadi, in June 2013. “The campaign is ongoing until 12,000 are
prepared.” The same year, the KSU ran the “Liberate the Coast” fundraising
campaign to help pay for a sectarian massacre of hundreds of civilians in
the Syrian port of Latakia. One of the KSU’s fundraisers, Shafi al-Ajmi,
tweeted that the donations would go “to buy what is needed to expel the
Safavids”, an insulting term for Shia. Last month, he was designated a
funder of terrorism by the US.
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Though this article covers "How this is being done" it still doesn't answer "Why?"
I think until the world understands better "Why?" that this whole thing is going to get every more messy.
You would think after Christian and Yazidis being massacred in Iraq and Syria ongoing all Summer Kuwait and Qatar might rethink what they are doing. But, apparently, "No" is the anwer to this question.
So, maybe now, "Why?" needs to be asked by the world if the U.S. Britain and Europe actually wants to stop this snowball of genocide from Hell that they are presently financing.
My thought is that the money keeps on coming not to kill Christians or Yazidis but rather Shias with the idea being that Kuwait and Qatar want to extinct all Shias. This is likely the answer to "Why?".
The killings of Christians and Yazidis likely is just collateral damage in the real quest to extinct all Shias for the Sunni donors in Kuwait and Qatar.
Though this article covers "How this is being done" it still doesn't answer "Why?"
I think until the world understands better "Why?" that this whole thing is going to get every more messy.
You would think after Christian and Yazidis being massacred in Iraq and Syria ongoing all Summer Kuwait and Qatar might rethink what they are doing. But, apparently, "No" is the anwer to this question.
So, maybe now, "Why?" needs to be asked by the world if the U.S. Britain and Europe actually wants to stop this snowball of genocide from Hell that they are presently financing.
My thought is that the money keeps on coming not to kill Christians or Yazidis but rather Shias with the idea being that Kuwait and Qatar want to extinct all Shias. This is likely the answer to "Why?".
The killings of Christians and Yazidis likely is just collateral damage in the real quest to extinct all Shias for the Sunni donors in Kuwait and Qatar.
