American victims sue Qatar for financing terrorist operations

Aya Ezz

The corridors of America’s courts are currently witnessing lawsuits filed against Qatar by the victims of Doha’s terrorism, including a lawsuit accusing official Qatari circles of financing terrorists who carried out brutal killings of Americans, according to multiple American newspapers, most notably the Washington Post.

Accusations

Attorney Stephen Perles, who represents victims of terrorism in New York, filed the lawsuit, which is focused on targeting Qatar Charity for being a means of financing international terrorism.

The lawsuit accuses Qatar of using American financial channels to finance terrorists, stressing that official bodies and financial institutions provided huge sums of money to them.

Qatar has provided covert funding for many terrorist attacks that have claimed American lives, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by the website Free Beacon website.

Funding Hamas and Islamic Jihad

The lawsuit stated that as part of this financing scheme, Qatari charities used the US banking system to illegally transfer funds to terrorist groups to plan and carry out the attacks.

Free Beacon suggested that the disclosure of Qatar’s involvement in these terrorist plots may feed the ongoing congressional investigations into Qatar’s support for terrorist groups and other anti-US militias.

The current case includes the family of Taylor Force, an American veteran who was killed by Hamas in 2016.

Qatar Charity worked with Al-Rayan Bank and Qatar National Bank (QNB), which are largely controlled by members of the ruling family in Doha, to send millions of dollars to Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Palestine, which have been involved in the assassination of American soldiers, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit stated that both banks are essential to providing access to the US financial system to obtain the money needed to support terrorist activities. Al-Rayan Bank is also currently under investigation in the United Kingdom for assisting Qatar Charity in terrorist acts.

Source of concern

Qatar’s involvement with these groups has been a source of tension with Doha’s regional neighbors, including Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain, which cut ties with the Qatari regime in 2017 because of its support for terrorism.

Free Beacon stated that Qatar deliberately caused a kind of strife between the United States and Arab countries. Among the cases brought against Doha was the payment of money to agents to spy on a number of Arab countries to cause sedition.

Another lawsuit

Another US lawsuit revealed that Qatar had recruited a team consisting of former CIA and military intelligence officials to launch a cyber operation against prominent US Republican Party member Elliot Broidy.

Broidy, a businessman and former Republican Party fundraiser, has been exposing Doha’s support for terrorism over the past two years.

According to Free Beacon, Broidy confirmed that Qatar used former US intelligence agents to carry out a cyber espionage operation in 2018 targeting his personal and work email servers.

Broidy explained that information from his email was later leaked to the media in order to discredit him and to achieve Doha’s interests in the United States.

The lawsuit revealed that hackers affiliated with the advisory group Global Risk Advisors in the United States had received money from Qatar to carry out the illegal plot and similar attacks targeting prominent critics of Qatar.