Qatar is top GCC aid donor to Iraq
(Saw this in Peninsula newspaper. Discussed with my friend and she said she had not seen it on QL. I was dumbstruck. Well, here is the news, I had to make an account just for posting...)
Qatar is the largest aid provider to Iraq among the GCC states, a local Arabic daily reported yesterday, quoting a prominent Iraqi organisation involved in monitoring human rights violations in the country.
Qatar is among the top countries in the world in terms of providing aid actively to Iraq after the US invasion, said Dr Ismail Abdul Malik Al Hibsh, head of the Iraqi Peace Organisation.
“Qatar is the number one GCC country in terms of providing aid to Iraq and one of the leading countries in the world in that matter. It is helping Iraq to ride over its present crisis,” Al Hibsh was quoted as saying.
He said statistics compiled by the Iraqi government and US forces confirm that Qatar stands above all other countries in terms of providing active aid to Baghdad. And none of Qatari citizens have been found involved in violent activities taking place in the country, he said.
No Al Qaeda operative has ever claimed that he had any association with Qatar. Also, Qatar has not made any negative comments about Iraq, he said, describing H H Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned’s recent visit with a delegation to Baghdad as historic.
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