Risks Action Against Qatar Is Need of the Hour :

Qatar is now being brought under radar from all corners. Reports have confirmed that a French senator is now questioning Qatar and asking for an explanation as to an Al Qaeda financier had access to his bank account despite an asset freeze?

Nathalie Goulet is a member of the Senate of France, representing the Orne department. Goulet has said that Khalifa Al Subaiy has evaded UN sanctions and found access to his funds at Qatar National Bank. This shows a “collective failure” and brings to light a definite global security risk.

“Qatar needs to explain to the world why it has allowed such a dangerous person to continue having banking services,” she wrote in an opinion piece in The Hill.

Goulet has also stated how all this kind of activity shows the dangers posed by weak legislation. She has urged the international community to wake up.

In the past, Al Subaiy has been rightly accused by the US of giving financial support to Al Qaeda leaders, including the architect of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Al Subaiy, who used to work at Qatar’s Central Bank and was designated for sanctions by the UN in 2008, has been withdrawing up to $10,000 (Dh36,733) a month for “basic necessities” despite his frozen accounts, The Wall Street Journal reported last week.

The case was part of a wider problem where ISIS and Al Qaeda-linked people were able to use loopholes to withdraw money.

“This not only makes a mockery of the United Nations, it also endangers global security,” she wrote.

Qatar, on its part, seems to be ignoring all this and continues to curry favour off US and other Arab nations, despite an embargo levied on it, for the same reason- encouraging and funding terrorist factions and supporting the Muslim Brotherhood.