The 'Club Med for terrorists'

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Last week, even as the Emir of Qatar protested his country’s innocence of the funding of Isil, the US Treasury produced the first evidence that Qatari money helped Jihadi John, or other Britons like him, reach Syria.
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Qatar may say that this was the work of private individuals, not the government. But any state, especially a Gulf autocracy, can stop this sort of thing if it wants to badly enough.

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And certainly, Qatar’s engagement with the extremists could be seen as a form of hedging its bets. It has tried to make friends with almost everybody, from the Taliban to Israel, with whom, alone in the Gulf, it once had trade relations. It shelters Hamas, Libyan Islamist militias and Muslim Brotherhood groups from across the region.

It’s not really working. Infuriated at the emirate’s providing sanctuary for the Hamas leadership, Israel now calls Qatar, in the words of its UN ambassador Ron Prosor, the “Club Med for terrorists”. After the overthrow of the Brotherhood government in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the other Gulf states – most of them deeply hostile to the Brotherhood – are putting the squeeze on Qatar. Some analysts say it is this, as much as support for Syrian jihadis, that explains the heat the Qataris are now feeling.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/qatar/11125897/The-Club-Med-for-terrorists.html