QATAR: Gulf states” ”policy of domination” denounced

A senior counter-terrorism adviser to Qatar’s foreign minister has hit out at the diplomatic squeeze on Doha by several Gulf states, calling it a “policy of domination and control”.    Mutlaq al-Qahtani, a special envoy to Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, said the decision to sever ties by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, […]

A senior counter-terrorism adviser to Qatar’s foreign minister has hit out at the diplomatic squeeze on Doha by several Gulf states, calling it a “policy of domination and control”.   

Mutlaq al-Qahtani, a special envoy to Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, said the decision to sever ties by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Egypt – as well as other allies – over Qatar’s alleged funding of armed groups would not prove successful.    

“We have our national committees on terror financing and counter-terrorism,” he told Al Jazeera. “We also have our preventive action plan, but more importantly, we work very hard on tackling the root cause of terrorism.”

When questioned about his country hosting the Taliban, Qahtani said that was “absolutely a request by the US government”.