Qatar’s terror list proves Quartet’s claims: Gargash

Manama : The new terrorism list issued by Qatar confirms the quartet’s stance that the current crisis is the product of Qatar’s support for “extremism and terrorism”, said a top UAE Minister. 

The terror blacklist published by Doha on the official website of its National Counter-Terrorism Committee on Thursday terms 11 Qataris, four Egyptians, two Saudis and two Jordanians as terrorists. The list also adds six entities from Qatar, Daesh Sinai branch and Al Ihsan Charitable Society from Yemen to its blacklist. 

“Ten of them have already been blacklisted by the four boycotting countries,” Dr Anwar Gargash, the United Arab Emirates Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, wrote on his Twitter handle.

“Apart from its obstinacy, Qatar is confirming the evidence against it and that its support for extremism and terrorism is at the heart of its crisis,” wrote Dr Gargash. 

The quartet, including Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, has boycotted Qatar since June 5 for supporting extremists and funding terrorism and maintains a terror list of 72 people and organisations having links to Doha.

According to a report by Gulf News, Abdul Rahman Al Nuaimi who was designated as terrorist by the US government in December 2013 and the UN in September 2014 for providing financial support to terrorist organisations is on the list. 

He formerly served as the head of the Qatar Football Association, was a founder and board member of Eid Charity in Qatar (also placed on the terror list), and served as a top advisor to the government of Qatar on charitable donations, the report points out. 

While the Arab Quartet welcomed the issuance of the list, it pointed out that Qatar has procrastinated in submitting it, which has been a demand of the Quartet since the crisis broke out.