Doha – Qatar has been operating a weapons funding network from Europe to Hezbollah using gold shipments traded across Africa, according to a latest report by an Austrian-based think-tank group Mena-Watch.

Qatari officials coordinated the payments and offered protection for Doha-based Hezbollah financiers, according to the report released by Mena-Watch last Tuesday.

“General Dahlan al-Hamad used gold from Uganda to fund this arms trade,” Mena-Watch’s report cited a dossier from a former Western intelligence official Jason G. who spent more than 16 years investigating terror in the Middle East.

General Dahlan al-Hamad is currently the president of the Asian Athletics Association as well as the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) vice-president and the president of Qatar Athletics.

The western intelligence official Jason G., was directly interviewed by Mena-Watch, who has been leaking evidence that the Qatari regime was aware of Qatari groups funding Hezbollah — which is a designated terrorist organization by the countries like US and Germany.

Austria’s Die Presse magazine quoted Jason G. earlier this month that, Qatar has paid over half a billion dollars for the Houthi drone attacks against Saudi Arabia, and it has also financed Hezbollah and Muslim Brotherhood terror groups.

“With the knowledge of influential government officials, donations were generated by charities in Doha,” added Jason G.

The intelligence source highlighted the Qatari charity organizations like Qatar Charity, Sheikh Eid Charity and other Doha-based charity groups, who have funneled $500 million of funds to Hezbollah in 2020 alone.

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A report by an intelligence analyst known as Jason G has stated how Qatar financed attacks on its regional rivals, including Saudi Arabia. He claimed that he was fully determined to raise the alarm over the potential threats including a failed drone strike on Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport on Sunday.

“I was actively working the last few weeks to determine the risk/threats of drone strikes, and the best payoff is when casualties are avoided,” he told UAE’s The National newspaper. “You have to take every threat seriously and hope they don’t materialise. When one is thwarted, it’s the best outcome.”

For the past few years, Iran has backed the Houthi militias of Yemen with sophisticated drones and a ballistic missible programme to carry out attacks against Saudi Arabia. The attacks were directed towards civilian homes, commercial airports, vital infrastructure, military stations, and even the Muslim holy city of Mecca.

Though Qatar has always denied supporting the Houthi militias in Yemen, Austria’s Die Presse magazine has reviewed an extensive dossier documenting its involvement.

A former member of the secret service agency, Jason G, who now works as a private security analyst, said that Qatar financed an informant in the Saudi Arabia’s government to provide intelligence inputs to the Houthi leaders.

The report also warned that Saudi Arabia’s sister country Bahrain will also come under similar types of attacks because of its integral role on “international shipping routes”.

The report further added that Qatar has been funding Hezbollah in Lebanon and various Muslim Brotherhood groups around the region.

Jason G has played an active role in giving reports on Qatar’s nefarious activities, and last month he said that a senior royal approved delivery of military equipment to Hezbollah that will endanger the 10,000 US troops hosted by Doha.

Another shocking report published in August, which was verified by the German intelligence stated that Qatar’s ambassador to Belgium and NATO, Abdulrahman bin Mohammed Al-Khulaifi, tried to cover up the royal family’s involvement in financing Hezbollah by bribing Jason G with €750,000 (Dh3.2 million).

September 4, is regarded as the day of “Betrayal” on which Qatar sent the coordinates of the location of a number of Arab coalition soldiers to the Houthi militias in the most heinous treachery incident in modern history, which resulted in the deaths of over 45 Emirati soldiers, 10 Saudi soldiers, and 5 Bahraini soldiers.