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Clinton: Saudi Arabia, Qatar Provide ‘Clandestine’ Support to Daesh - WikiLeaks

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Emails published by Wikileaks between Hillary Clinton and her presidential campaign chairman John Podesta pull back the curtain on the fight against Daesh [ISIS/ISIL].

One reveals Clinton identifying Saudi Arabia and Qatar as "financial and logistic" supporters of the terrorist group.

Contrary to Qatar's assurances that it does not support Daesh, Hillary Clinton apparently believes that they are in fact providing "clandestine financial and logistic support to Daesh and other radical Sunni groups in the region," according to an August 17, 2014 email released by WikiLeaks on Monday.

"While this military/para-military operation is moving forward, we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to Daesh and other radical Sunni groups in the region," she wrote to Podesta.

"This effort will be enhanced by the stepped up commitment in the KRG [Kurdish Regional Government]. The Qataris and Saudis will be put in a position of balancing policy between their ongoing competition to dominate the Sunni world and the consequences of serious US pressure," she added.

Clinton also named Saudi Arabia as a supporter of Daesh, a country which has previously been accused of funding other terrorist organizations, such as Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The kingdom also has a policy of torture and public executions, not entirely dissimilar to the actions of Daesh.

What pressure the US plans to put on the Saudi government remains to be seen.

However, following the UN's Committee on the Rights of the Child's scathing report on the country's human rights abuses, if the US doesn't put pressure on the government, others may do so instead.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team