More on Qatar paying off al-Qaeda through Learned Elders of Islam

"The government of Qatar is paying millions of dollars a year to Al-Qaeda in return for an undertaking to spare it from further attacks, official sources are quoted as saying by the latest edition of The Sunday Times.

The money, paid to spiritual leaders sympathetic to Al-Qaeda, is believed to be helping to fund its activities in Iraq.

The sources said a deal between Qatar and Al-Qaeda was first made before the 2003 invasion of Iraq amid fears that the tiny oil state could become a target.

A senior Qatari government source said that the agreement was renewed in March after an Egyptian suicide bomber attacked a theatr in Doha, killing a British citizen.

“We’re not sure that the attack was carried out by Al-Qaeda, but we ratified our agreement just to be on the safe side,” said a Qatari official. “We are a soft target and prefer to pay to secure our national and economical interests. We are not the only ones doing so.” "
Rantburg again

OMG can this be true? don't they understand the harm, the death, and the destruction that they are causing? This has to be a joke, it just can not be for real. How could they do this, just to win/buy so-called safety. They are feeding the crocodile, and he's just getting bigger and bigger, and it will always take more to keep it happy and full. Very soon they will not have enough to satisfy it's hunger and he will eat them too. How stupid could they actually be to do something like this, and to do it to thier next door neighbors. Un FUCKING real.