France says Qatar terrorism financing charges ’not true’ (#ouf, nous voilà bien rassurés ; mais qu’ils se taisent, ces méchants conspirationnistes américains tel que, euh, ce sous-secrétaire du Trésor chargé du terrorisme et du renseignement financier, qui vient d’être nommé, euh, directeur adjoint la CIA par Obama…)
►http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Jan-21/284834-france-says-qatar-terrorism-financing-charges-not-true.ashx
A French probe has shown that regular accusations leveled at Qatar that it finances terrorism are “not true,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Wednesday.
“We had our intelligence services carry out precise investigations that showed that was not true,” Fabius said of the lingering accusations against the tiny, oil-rich Gulf state.
The French government has come under pressure from opposition parties after the jihadi attacks in Paris to review its diplomatic ties with Qatar over its alleged financing of extremists in the Sahel, Yemen, Libya, Iraq and Syria.
U.S. officials have accused Qatar of not doing enough to stop private fundraising for terrorist groups.
In March last year the U.S. Treasury’s under-secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, David Cohen, said Qatar had become “such a permissive terrorist financing environment, that several major Qatar-based fundraisers act as local representatives for larger terrorist fundraising networks that are based in Kuwait.”
In 2013 the U.S. designated as a terrorist an Al-Qaeda “financier and facilitator” in Qatar, Abd al-Rahman bin Umayr al-Nu’aymi, accused of transferring millions of dollars to affiliates in Iraq, Syria, Somalia, and Yemen over the past ten years.
Sur la nomination de (ce complotiste de) David Cohen :
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/david-cohen-architect-of-sanctions-on-iran-and-russia-picked-as-cia-deputy-director/2015/01/09/ccbe183e-9809-11e4-aabd-d0b93ff613d5_story.html
