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Northwestern University’s journalism program accepted hundreds of millions in funding from Qatar and a regime-backed foundation linked to terrorism.
Foreign Policy magazine is slated to hold an event that will highlight Qatar’s championship of women’s rights, raising questions about the publication’s partnership with a country that funds terrorism and has been cited as among the globe’s foremost human rights abusers. 
The Al Jazeera news network is running afoul of U.S. laws mandating it disclose its ties to the Qatari royal family, which has for years used the network to further Doha’s political interests in America, according to a new report by a former member of Congress. 
Qatar hired a team of former CIA and U.S. military intelligence officials to conduct a hack attack on a prominent American political activist after he raised questions about the country’s support for terrorism, according to allegations in a new lawsuit. 
Qatar secretly provided funding for several terror attacks that killed Americans and Israelis, according to allegations leveled in an unprecedented new lawsuit filed in New York City on Wednesday that seeks compensation for the families of those killed. 
Qatar is spending billions of dollars to infiltrate the American public education system as part of a propaganda effort that legal advocates say violates federal statutes and warrants a full-scale investigation, according to a non-public memorandum sent from an investigative group to the State Department and obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. 
A legal organization has filed a series of requests to compel American universities to turn over documents that will shine light on an effort by Qatar to peddle influence and push anti-Israel bias in U.S. public schools, according to a copy of public records requests obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. 
A prominent Washington, D.C., law firm has been working on behalf of the Qatari-owned broadcasting network Al Jazeera, prompting questions from a congressional office as to whether the firm has disclosed this relationship under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). 
U.S. air carriers are calling foul on Qatar for violating an international agreement aimed at leveling the playing field for international airlines, a backdoor move that has seen the small oil rich nation inject tens of millions of dollars into a once-defunct Italian airline. 