{"id":1019,"date":"2018-04-28T18:30:41","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T14:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2018-04-28T18:30:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T14:30:41","slug":"leaked-messages-prove-that-qatar-paid-hundreds-of-millions-to-free-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/04\/28\/leaked-messages-prove-that-qatar-paid-hundreds-of-millions-to-free-terrorists\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked messages prove that Qatar paid hundreds of millions to free hostages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post published leaked letters revealing that Qatar had paid at least $ 275 million to terrorists in Iraq to release a number of its citizens and members of the ruling family who were kidnapped in Iraq in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1021\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/endemo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/1-1043108-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/1-1043108-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/1-1043108-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/1-1043108.jpg 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The payments were part of a larger deal that would involve the Iranian, Iraqi and Turkish governments as well as Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah militia and at least two Syrian opposition groups, including al-Nusra Front, the notorious Sunni rebel faction linked to al-Qaeda. The total sum demanded for the return of the hostages at times climbed as high as $1\u00a0billion, although it is not clear from the documents exactly how much money ultimately changed hands.<\/p>\n<p>This proves\u00a0Qatar&#8217;s support for terrorism and to free Hostages who are listed by the United States as terrorists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post published leaked letters revealing that Qatar had paid at least $ 275 million to terrorists in Iraq to release a number of its citizens and members of the ruling family who were kidnapped in Iraq in 2015. The payments were part of a larger deal that would involve the Iranian, Iraqi and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}