DO I REALLY HAVE TO SAY IT?
Posted on 08/20/2014 9:40:42 AM PDT by GonzoII
(Reuters) - German Development Minister Gerd Mueller accused Qatar on Wednesday of financing Islamic State militants who have seized wide areas of northern Iraq and have posted a video of a captive American journalist being beheaded.
"This kind of conflict, this kind of a crisis always has a history ... The ISIS troops, the weapons - these are lost sons, with some of them from Iraq," Mueller told German public broadcaster ZDF.
"You have to ask who is arming, who is financing ISIS troops. The keyword there is Qatar - and how do we deal with these people and states politically?" said Mueller, a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the center-right Bavarian sister party of Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats.
Mueller did not elaborate and presented no evidence of a Qatari link to Islamic State. A German government spokesman said he was checking whether Mueller's remarks reflected the official view of Berlin.
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He’s right.
This explains why Obama approved a big order of arms to Qatar. However none to the Kurds or other anti-ISIS forces.
The US needs new friends.
Yes Qatar or as GWBush use to say it - “cutter”, that wonderful so called “friend” of the west, a dictatorship in the hands of a shiek and his family, in perpetuum by divine right, a Sunni dictator ruling over a disgruntled Shia majority who has no power, a Sunni dictator on equally good terms with the Taliban and the west
what a country, what a guy
don’t think for a moment that other so-called Middle East friends of the west have not either helped fund ISIS, directly or indirectly, or given a wink and a nod as wealthy citizens of theirs have
Germany ‘regrets’ minister’s claim on Qatar ISIS funding
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/08/22/Germany-regrets-minister-s-claim-on-Qatar-ISIS-funding-.html
Qatar Denies Funding Extremist Islamic State Group
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/qatar-hits-back-claims-backs-extremists-25100826
It is about Iran,...but the fundies are going off script!
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