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The Clinton-Qatar-Hamas Connection

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THE CLINTONS, QATAR, AND THE ISRAEL MASSACRE

It’s not easy to understand the Middle East, but one facet can be
found in following the money. One open-wallet nation, Qatar, has been
chummy
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with both Hamas
terrorists and U.S. politicians. Our chief investigative reporter
Micah Morrison provides the details
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in our _Investigative
Bulletin_ about Qatar’s connections with a former U.S. president and
a secretary of state.

> Shortly after the world began learning the details of the massacre
> of Israeli civilians on October 7, Hillary Clinton published a note
> of support
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> for “everyone affected by the horrific attacks by Hamas” and
> expressed “strong support of our ally,” Israel. The former
> secretary of state had nothing to say about one of Hamas’s key
> allies, the energy-rich kingdom of Qatar, and not surprisingly:
> Qatar is not only an important friend of the U.S. in the region but
> also for many years was a generous patron of Bill and Hillary
> Clinton. As Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton noted on X
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Qatar
> funneled money to the Clintons when Mrs. Clinton was secretary of
> state and she “hid this until disclosures from Wikileaks and
> pressure from Judicial Watch forced her to admit to tens of millions
> of previously hidden foreign cash payments to ‘Clinton Inc.’”
>
> Slipping money into the hands of slippery politicians—a
> time-honored tradition in the Middle East and elsewhere—of course
> is not the same as providing significant ongoing state support for a
> murderous terrorist organization. But the Clinton experience does
> provide a snapshot of the Qatari influence operation and a warning
> about what Qatar may be up to elsewhere, including in the United
> States.
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> The Qatar-Clinton money trail begins around 2008, when the Clinton
> Foundation—under pressure due to Mrs. Clinton’s imminent ascent
> to State Department leadership—published a list of donors. Among
> them: Qatar, listed as contributing between $1 million and $5
> million. A Clinton Foundation spokesman later acknowledged that
> Qatar had been sending the Clintons money “since 2002.”
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> Pressure mounted on the Clintons in 2014 with the publication of a
> Judicial Watch investigative report
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> disclosing that Bill Clinton had earned upward of $48 million in
> speaking fees around the globe, including from Arab countries, while
> Mrs. Clinton served as secretary of state. “Former President
> Clinton trotted the globe collecting huge speaking fees while his
> wife presided over U.S. foreign policy,” Tom Fitton noted at the
> time.
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> In 2016, a leaked Wikileaks email
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> revealed that five years earlier, in 2011, the Clintons had received
> a $1 million gift from Qatar. That gift was never reported by the
> Clintons, a clear violation of the disclosure agreement the Clintons
> had signed with the State Department when Mrs. Clinton took the
> helm. Soon after the 2011 gift, a high-ranking Qatari official
> pressed the Clinton circle for “five minutes” with the former
> president.
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> Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits also
> turned up more evidence of Clinton conflicts of interest,
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> including the courting of Qatar. A Judicial Watch FOIA disclosure in
> late 2016 revealed a list sent by a Clinton Foundation senior
> adviser to a high-ranking aide to Secretary of State Clinton; the
> list
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> noted more than 200 foreign leaders to be invited to the 2009
> Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting, including the emir of
> Qatar, the Qatari prime minister, and the minister of foreign
> affairs.
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> Qatar’s pursuit of influence in the United States is not limited
> to the Clintons and their allies. According to investigative reports
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> Qatar has given $1 billion to American universities since 2011.
> Qatar also is a major purveyor of anti-Semitism. Its media is filled
> with anti-Semitic and anti-Israel propaganda
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> And at the UN—not exactly a bastion of pro-Israel sentiment—a
> high-ranking Qatari official was recently denied a senior post on
> the grounds of anti-Semitism
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> That’s useful context when considering Qatar’s role supporting
> Hamas.
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> Here at Judicial Watch, we’re watching Qatar closely. At home,
> with concern rising about anti-Semitism on U.S. campuses, we won a
> recent lawsuit forcing disclosure of information about Qatar’s
> funding of American universities
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Abroad, with lessons
> learned from our Clinton investigations, we’re following the flow
> of Qatari money. We’ll keep you updated.



TALIBAN CREATES FAKE NONPROFITS TO GET MILLIONS IN U.S. AFGHANISTAN
AID

It may shock you to know that millions of your tax dollars are being
given to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog
explains
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> In one of the most recent Afghanistan debacles, the Taliban has
> established fraudulent non-governmental organizations (NGO) to loot
> the hundreds of millions of dollars in humanitarian aid that the
> United States has sent Afghanistan since the 2021 military
> withdrawal. NGOs are typically nonprofits with humanitarian missions
> that supposedly work to improve public or social welfare.
> Approximately 1.5 million
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> NGOs operate in the U.S., according to the State Department, and
> they advocate for a variety of issues that include the environment,
> healthcare, women’s rights, marginalized populations, youth
> empowerment and economic development. The U.S. government gives NGOs
> billions of taxpayers every year through various agencies, including
> the departments of Health and Human Services, Homeland Security and
> State.
>
> In Afghanistan terrorists are not surprisingly stealing the
> humanitarian aid that keeps flowing to the central Asian Islamic
> nation by, among other things, utilizing fake NGOs. Specifically,
> the Taliban is benefiting from American education funding through
> the establishment of fraudulent NGOs to receive donor assistance,
> according to an audit
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published
> recently by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan
> Reconstruction (SIGAR). The Taliban is also infiltrating and
> extorting existing Afghan NGOs delivering educational assistance,
> the probe found. “For example, an NGO official told us the Taliban
> are targeting and extorting Afghans who receive monetary support
> from U.S.-funded education programs under the guise of taxation,”
> the report states. “In another example, NGO officials told SIGAR
> that the Taliban are coercing NGOs to hire Taliban supporters or
> purchase goods from Taliban-owned companies.”
>
> Prior to the Biden administration’s abrupt military withdrawal,
> the U.S. invested $1.3 billion on education-related programming in
> Afghanistan and reportedly it “contributed to significant
> improvements” in the Muslim nation’s education system. Since the
> terrorist group returned to power in August 2021, Uncle Sam has
> continued to fund Afghanistan’s education sector through six
> programs that cost $185.2 million even though the Taliban has issued
> decrees drastically limiting access to education for girls and women
> as well as restricting women’s ability to work and other basic
> freedoms. Nevertheless, the American taxpayer dollars keep flowing.
> In fiscal year 2023, which ended in September, the U.S. sent
> Taliban-ruled Afghanistan over $566 million
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> in humanitarian assistance. Most of it was for emergency food but a
> chunk was classified as going to general humanitarian and health.
> More than $15 million went to a cause that is labeled “redacted”
> in the government records.
>
> It’s not like American government officials don’t know the
> Taliban is taking the money. A report issued earlier this year by
> the United States Institute of Peace
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the
> federal institution founded by Congress to promote worldwide
> conflict resolution, concluded that foreign-funded assistance is
> unlikely to prove effective as leverage to shape the Taliban
> government’s behavior. “On the contrary, the Taliban are likely
> to increasingly regard foreign funded activities as just another
> potential revenue stream,” the U.S. Institute of Peace found.
> “Any form of humanitarian or development assistance is prone to
> manipulation by the Taliban. Aid/development delivery…exposes
> [foreign donors] to Taliban coercion with little leverage or
> recourse to resist.” Specific to education, SIGAR writes that the
> Taliban’s “repressive” policies, especially those targeting
> girls and women, have severely limited access to, and the quality
> of, education at all levels. Yet the American taxpayer dollars keep
> pouring into the terrorist group’s coffers.
>
> Laughably, the Islamic Emirate Afghanistan (IEA) denied in a
> Pakistani news report
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> that the Taliban is stealing U.S. education funds, insisting that
> the IEA acts in the best interest of Afghanistan. “The claims made
> by SIGAR regarding Afghanistan are far from reality,” according to
> the IEA’s deputy spokesman quoted in the article. “The Islamic
> Emirate makes all decisions and manages affairs in Afghanistan based
> on its principles and the nation’s welfare.”



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