Terror Financiers “Operating Openly” in Qatar and Kuwait
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David Andrew Weinberg
14th February 2017 - FDD Policy Brief
A White House readout following President Trump’s
phone conversation Thursday with the emir of
Qatar said the two leaders discussed stopping
terror finance throughout the region. Washington
has good reason to raise the issue: Just last
week, the Obama administration’s Assistant
Treasury Secretary for Terrorist Financing Daniel
L. Glaser revealed that designated terrorist
financiers continue to operate openly in Qatar and its Gulf neighbor Kuwait.
Speaking last Monday, Glaser stated that “there
continue to be designated terrorist financiers
operating openly and notoriously in both
countries” – the first such admission by a
current or former administration official since at least 2014.
Glaser, who recently joined the board of FDD’s
Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance, gave
Qatar and Kuwait credit for criminal prosecutions
regarding terror finance. As he noted previously,
Qatar has conducted criminal prosecutions of
terrorist financiers, and according to local
press, Kuwait has charged and even convicted a
number of funders of terrorism. However, it
remains unclear if any of the individuals
targeted by either country include alleged terror
financiers who were deemed important enough to
merit designation on the U.S. or UN counterterrorism sanctions lists.
In correspondence after the event, Glaser
stressed that Qatar has “done a good job within
their own financial system and even within their charitable sector.”
However, Glaser noted in his public remarks that
Qatar still has to make some “fundamental
decisions” on combating terror finance, including
not only criminal prosecutions but also enacting
financial measures and simply ending its
“toleration” of terror fundraising within its
borders. Glaser added that the constructive steps
Qatar has thus far taken have been “painfully
slow.” Ultimately, he said, such measures will be
fundamental to ensuring that terror financiers
begin viewing both Qatar and Kuwait as “hostile
environments” for their activity.
Adam Szubin, who served as Treasury’s acting
under secretary for terrorism and financial
intelligence, revealed in October 2016 that Qatar
and Kuwait were enforcing their counter-terror
finance laws selectively, targeting financiers of
some terrorist groups but not others.
FDD research has highlighted Qatar’s longstanding
negligence toward local terror financiers of
al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch. That branch, formerly
known as the Nusra Front, has grown to constitute
the largest single branch in al-Qaeda’s history,
according to Special Presidential Envoy Brett
McGurk. Despite rebranding itself as Jabhat Fatah
al-Sham in July 2016, it remains al-Qaeda’s
Syrian affiliate according to the State Department.
FDD’s research documents the cases of six
individuals accused of funding the Nusra Front
and argues that Qatar has yet to take visible
steps to convict and imprison any of them. As of
mid-December 2016, Qatar had yet to file a single
Mutual Legal Assistance request with the U.S.
Justice Department. Such a request would be the
main formal avenue for seeking American
government evidence against terror financiers for
use in court prosecutions. That omission is yet
another worrisome sign that Doha has much to do
to prove it is a reliable partner in America’s fight against terror finance.
David Andrew Weinberg is a senior fellow at the
Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the
author of two FDD monographs on Qatar’s
negligence toward private terror financiers.
Follow him on Twitter @DavidAWeinberg
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