Emir of Qatar faces accusations of supporting ISIS in Germany

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Emir of Qatar, Tamim Bin Hamad, faced at his visit to Germany on Wednesday, accusations of funding the terrorists group of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.

The Qatari Emir rejected these accusations and said after his discussions with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday “We have not and would not support terrorist organizations.”

For her part, the German Chancellor Merkel pointed out “I do not have any reasons not to believe the Qatari Emir.”

Earlier, German Development Minister Gerd Mueller accused Qatar on Wednesday of financing Islamic State militants who have seized wide areas of northern Iraq and have posted a video of a captive American journalist being beheaded.

“This kind of conflict, this kind of a crisis always has a history … The ISIS troops, the weapons – these are lost sons, with some of them from Iraq,” Mueller told German public broadcaster ZDF.

“You have to ask who is arming, who is financing ISIS troops. The keyword there is Qatar – and how do we deal with these people and states politically?” said Mueller, a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), the center-right Bavarian sister party of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats.