Qatar’s ex-Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani acknowledged the US and its Gulf allies backed Salafi-jihadists in Syria. By Ben Norton / AlterNet Qatar’s former prime minister admitted in an interview that the United States and its Gulf allies supported Islamist extremists in Syria. In CIA-run training sites located in Jordan and Turkey, Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani explained, the U.S., Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, “all of us, we [were] supporting the same groups,” he said. Among … Continue reading US and Gulf allies supported Islamist extremists in Syria, Qatar’s ex-prime minister admits, bolstering growing evidence