The US believes al-Bakr is still providing “financial, material or technological support” to al-Qaeda. Another of Umar al-Qatari’s backers is Khalifa Muhammad Turki al-Subaiy, 49, a former senior official in Qatar’s Central Bank, who the US says, has been allowed to continue to fund terrorist activity abroad despite being jailed for six months in Qatar in 2006. The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday al-Subaiy’s funding for the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. The role of the ANF in the original kidnapping of Mr Cantlie and Mr Foley was disclosed by Jejoen Bontinck, 19, an Islamist who travelled to Syria from his home in Belgium but then refused to fight. As a consequence he was imprisoned by ANF and held along with the Western hostages.