American ex-Nusra hostage: Qatar’s ransom payouts are tactic to fund terror
He said the sharing of funds coming from Qatar was at the heart of a bloody conflict between members of the Nusra Front. (Photo courtesy: Zeitgeist Films)
Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Tuesday, 1 May 2018
An American journalist who was abducted in Syria by al-Qaeda-linked militants in 2012 has spoken of how Qatar’s efforts to secure his release in 2014 left him with concerns over the Gulf state’s funding of terrorism.
Theo Padnos entered Syria hoping to write freelance news stories but was kidnapped by the Nusra Front militant group over allegations he was a spy.
In an interview with Al Arabiya News Channel, to broadcast on current affairs program “Death Making†on May 11, Padnos said that Qatar had paid a ransom for his release.
Read more at: https://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2018/05/01/American-ex-Nusra-Front-hostage-Qatar-s-ransom-payouts-are-tactic-to-fund-terror-.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Theo_CurtisGuy has been on Tucker Carlson and he tells it a lot the way it is, what he was saying was not really "anti-Assad" but here, Al Arabiya is a Saudi Arabian news website.
