Qatar violates int'l law by backing, harboring terrorist elements, organizations

Ayman Salama, professor of international law and member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs (ECFA), said Qatar violated international law by backing and harboring terrorist elements and organizations.

In statements to MENA on Monday, Salama said Qatar violated the Charter of the United Nations, although it is a member state of the UN.

The UN Security Council and all its members have urged Qatar to internationally abide by drying up the sources of financing terrorist groups, Salama said.

Many red notices (requests to locate and provisionally arrest an individual pending extradition) were issued by the Interpol asking Qatar to extradite leaders of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood group, he added.

On December 18, 2013, Qatari Abderrahman al Nuaimi was designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorists by the US Department of the Treasury, which described him as "a Qatar-based terrorist financier and facilitator who has provided money and material support and conveyed communications to al-Qaida and its affiliates in Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Yemen for more than a decade," Salama said.

Source: MENA