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Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/02/us-mideast-crisis-qatar-insight-idUSKBN0IM07B20141102
Qatar Remains a Haven for Anti-Western Groups
(Reuters) Amena Bakr - Qatar has joined the American-led coalition to fight Islamic State, yet the emirate provides a haven to anti-Western groups such as the Afghan Taliban, Palestinian Hamas and Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front. "The Qataris are trying to do the absolute minimum," said a senior Western diplomat in the Gulf. At the same time, an Arab diplomat in the Qatari capital said, "Islamists here use Doha as an active launch pad for their media campaigns, communications and logistics which directly have an impact on the security of other Arab states." In a CNN interview aired on Sept 25, Qatari ruler Sheikh Tamim said some countries had argued that "any group which comes from an Islamist background are terrorists. And we don't accept that....To consider them extremist, I think, this is a big mistake."