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New documents reveal that the Doha government has paid $ 1 billion to terrorist organizations for the release of 28 Qatari nationals, including members of the ruling family kidnapped in Iraq in 2015.
This shows that Qatar has received assistance from several parties in several countries to secure the release of abductees.
The report states: On the morning of December 16, 2015, the ruling family in Qatar learned that: A member of a fishing group whose members are princes.
Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdulrahman al-Thani received a list of names of the hostages and realized that the list included two of his relatives
A letter was sent to the Qatari ambassador to Iraq. Zayed al-Khayarin, in which he says: "My cousin Jassim and Khaled are my aunt's husband.
The next 16 men have spent the past six months worried about the hostage crisis
According to a record of the sequence of events, it has disbursed more than $ 1 billion to free these men. Iraq, and General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Corps of Revolutionary Guards and personally subject to state sanctions The United States and the European Union, and the Sham Liberation Organization, which was formerly known as Front Nasra when it belonged to Al Qaeda in Syria.
According to another story – a Qatari novel – no money was paid to "terrorists", and even paid only to the state of Iraq.
According to this account, the funds are still in the basement of the Central Bank of Iraq in Baghdad, although all the hostages are now in their homeland. The twisted history of the negotiations is presented sequentially in the form of regular and vocal messages between the Foreign Minister and the Qatari ambassador to Iraq
Has Qatar paid the greatest ransom of history? Prior to his promotion to become Foreign Minister at a young age.
At the time of the abduction, Ambassador Zayed Al-Khaylan was the first Qatari envoy to Iraq 27 years ago, but this position was not important.
The hostages went to Iraq in search of hawks, and they received warnings Rat – Means – not to go to this country
camp was invaded by fishermen loaded with small trucks heavy machine guns in the early morning hours
and for many painful weeks, the Qatari government did not reach new ones … But things started to improve in March 2016. The Authorities learned that the hijackers belonged to the militia of Hezbollah, a militia backed by Iran
and Ambassador Zayed sent two messages to Sheikh Mohammed:
Five days later, the group proposes the release of three hostages: the ambassador sends a letter to the minister saying, "They also want a good gesture on our part, it is a good sign for us. They are in a hurry and want to finish everything soon. "
After y two days ago, the ambassador was in the green zone of Baghdad and the atmosphere of the green zone seemed crowded, Sadr's supporters were there to protest the corruption and the Ambassador said the staff of some embassies had fled, creating tension at the negotiating table.
Zayed was waiting for both options, but there was no sign of the promised release. " Is the third time I come to Baghdad for the hostage problem, and I have never felt such frustration. I do not want to leave the country without the presence of the hostages with me. "
The pirates of the air appeared, but the hostages were not with them.They had a USB key containing a video of a prisoner detained in solitary confinement [19659002] Sheikh Mohammed asked the ambassador, "What guarantees us that the rest of the hostages are with them? . He added, "Delete the video from your phone and make sure it's not disclosed to anyone."
He approved both options on Sheikh's words: "We do not want their families to see the video and be emotionally affected."
The princes were in a windowless cellar, and their friends, other citizens and non-Qataris were taken from the fishing group to other places, treated better and served good food.
A Qatari official told me that princes could be transported They are held somewhere underground.
If money is the solution to this problem, the Qataris have it Qatar must leave the Saudi-led coalition to fight the Houthi coup in Yemen, and Qatar must obtain the release of Iranian soldiers detained by the opposition in Syria. 19659003] and again became the target of money, in addition to the ransom, the militia leaders wanted to disengage
While one of the sessions was ending, it turned out that one of the negotiators Hezbollah Brigades, Abu Muhammad, $ 10 million for himself.
The ambassador said in a voice message Mohammed asked, "What benefit do I have? Frankly, I want $ 10 million."
"I told him, 10 million?
"To save him, I told him that I was ready to buy him an apartment in Lebanon."
The ambassador used two Iraqi mediators and paid a visit to the Qatari Foreign Minister for him ask in advance $ 150,000 in cash and five hours from a famous brand, and it is unclear whether these gifts were for the two middlemen themselves or were meant to grease the kidnappers during the talks.
In April 2016, a new name was added: Qasim Soleimani,
At that time, it appeared that the ransom demand had reached m The ambassador sent a letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs saying: "Sulaimani met the kidnappers last night and pressed them to access pter a billion dollars, they have not responded because of their financial situation, Sulaimani will come back. "" They want to exhaust us and force us to accept their demands immediately, we must be calm and not rush, but you must be willing to pay the price, "he said. The minister replied: "God names!"
Then a new element entered into negotiations in November 2016. General Soleimani from Qatar wanted to help implement the so-called four-city agreement in Syria [19659005]. The Syrian government surrounds two cities controlled by opponents. In the meantime, two pro-government villages were besieged by the rebels, apparently supported by Qatar (it was said that among the rebels were members of the former Nasra Front).
According to the ambassador, General Soleimani told the "Hezbollah Brigades" that if the agreement of four cities was canceled, it would be shameful to require personal bribes.
The ambassador said in a letter to the minister "Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Hezbollah Brigades in Iraq all want money and it's their luck, they exploit this situation to in take advantage, especially since they know it's almost the end, they're all thieves. "
2017, with another figure of 150 million dollars.
According to reports, the talks between Sheikh Mohammed and Al-Khayarin received about $ 1 billion plus $ 150 million in secondary payments or commissions, but the texts are vague: the four-city agreement could to be needed to free the hostages, plus $ 150 million of personal payments to the pirates. The Qataris stated that the texts and the phonetic messages were authentic.
The texts were also leaked to the Washington Post in April 2018. Our sources waited for Doha officials to issue a statement of denial.
The hostage crisis ended in April 2017. A Qatar Airways plane flew to Baghdad to transfer money and recover the hostages, Qatar officials said, although Qatar Airways itself refused to comment.
Who brought the money to Baghdad – what was the amount?
Our source claims that it was more than $ 1 billion, plus $ 150 million in bribes, much of which is intended for Hezbollah battalions. He was sent a large sum in cash – but they say it was the Iraqi government and not for the officials said: "We wanted to make the Iraqi government fully responsible for the security of the hostages."
The Qataris thought that they had signed an agreement with the Iraqi Minister of the Interior, the airport when the plane landed with a charge of money in sacks. in black cloth, then appeared armed men wearing uniforms without badges.
A Qatari official said to me, "We still do not know who they are." The Minister of the Interior has been expelled. "Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, explained that the Iraqi prime minister had contacted Mr. Abbadi in a hysterical state, but that he had not responded
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Although the funds were seized, the release of the hostages continued anyway, conditional upon the implementation of the agreement on the four cities.
In text messages, the Qatari intelligence officer, Jassem bin Fahd al-Thani present on the ground
First, "bus 46" people from both cities in Syria, and "We kidnapped 5,000 people in two days, and now we receive 3 000, we do not want bombings. "
A few days later, the rest of the cities was evacuated." The 3000 people who were detained on the restitution site, when we will see the hostages , will move the buses. "
The ambassador replied that the other party was worried: "They are terrified, they say that if the sun shines, they will hold the hostages." The hostages of Qatar were released on April 21, 2017. They were all "well," said the ambassador, but "have lost almost half of their weight ".
After sixteen months of detention, TV footage shows the hostages in a dry but smiling state on the runway at Doha Airport.
The sources of text messages and voicemail say that the material shows that the sources refer to a mailbox of Ambassador Al-Khayarin, describing in this mailbox the battalions of Hezbollah: "You must do trust Qatar, you know what Qatar did and what His Highness did, the prince's father. He did a lot of things, paid $ 50 million, provided the infrastructure for the South and was the first to visit. "
and our sources confirm that this shows that a historic amount of money, under the former prince, worth $ 50 million to Hezbollah Brigades.
