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Qatar's rulers allegedly funded weapons deliveries to the global terrorist group Hezbollah, threatening the safety of the nearly 10,000 US troops stationed in the country, a damning new dossier viewed by Fox News claims.
A private security contractor going by the alias of Jason G infiltrated Qatar's weapons procurement business as part of an apparent sting operation.
Qatar's Al Udeid military base is host to a forward headquarters of US Central Command and to US Air Force squadrons. There are nearly 10,000 US troops at both bases.
He told Fox News on Tuesday that a "member of the royal family" allegedly authorised the provision of military hardware to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
A dossier supplied by Jason G., and verified by Fox News, recounts the alleged role played by the Qatari royal family member since as early as 2017 in a wide-ranging terror finance scheme.
The Lebanese Hezbollah organisation is an Iranian proxy Shia militia, formed by the Teheran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Lebanon in 1982.
It is financed and supported by Iran.
Fox News said the group is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of US military personnel in Iraq and Lebanon.
Abdul Rahman bin Mohammed Sulaiman Al Khulaifi, Qatar's ambassador to Belgium and the Nato, reportedly sought to pay Jason G. 750,000 euros (Dh3.3 million) to hush up the role of Qatar's regime in offering money and weapons to the Lebanese Shi'ite organisation.
Jason G. said that at a January 2019 meeting with Al Khulaifi in Brussels, the envoy said,
"The Jews are our enemies."
Jason G., who uses an alias to avoid potential Qatari retaliation, said he wanted "Qatar to stop funding extremists." The "bad apples need to be taken out of the barrel and for [Qatar] to be part of the international community," he added.
In 2017, US President Donald Trump said Qatar "has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level."
A year later, Trump reversed himself, saying in a meeting with the Qatar Amir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, that Qatar was fighting extremists.
Neither Nato nor the Belgium government responded to Fox News' queries about the ambassador's role in the alleged affair.
reporters@khaleejtimes.com
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