The New York Times reported on the involvement of Qatar in bombings in the Somali capital Mogadishu in order to strengthen the interests of Doha in that country, which is plagued by terrorism and war.
The newspaper said it obtained a voice recording of the Qatari ambassador Hassan bin Hamza Hashim confirms the involvement of Doha in bombings in Mogadishu carried out by extremist terrorist elements to support and promote the interests of Qatar.
The voice mail was a telephone call to the Qatari ambassador in Somalia with a businessman close to the emir of Qatar, who said the gunmen carried out bombings in the port of Bosasso to promote Qatar's interests.
"The bombings and killings, we know who is behind them," businessman Khalifa Kayed al-Mohannadi said in the call on May 18, about a week after the bombing.
When contacted, Al-Muhannadi did not deny the phone call, saying that he was talking to the Qatari ambassador as citizens rather than officials.
But the Qatari ambassador did not deny the voice recording, did not express his displeasure at the implementation of the bombings in favor of his country, nor did he show any dissatisfaction with Qatari supervision.
The US security reports have confirmed earlier that Qatar is involved in financing the youth movement in Somalia.
Terrorist financiers living in Qatar freely played a pivotal role in the financing of the movement, linked to al-Qa'idah organization and directly and indirectly.
At the head of the country is Abdul Rahman bin Omair al-Nuaimi, who, according to a US Treasury Department report, has close ties to al-Shabaab leader Hassan Aweys.
Al-Naimi said that according to the report, about 250 thousand dollars in 2012 to the leaders of the movement, classified on the lists of international terrorism.
On the other hand, leaked documents published on Wikileaks said former US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice had asked in 2009 from Turkey to pressure Qatar to stop funding Al Shabaab.
According to the document, Rice said the funding was through the transfer of funds to Somalia via Eritrea.
The same accusation was repeated by then-Prime Minister Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, who said during a meeting with US diplomats in Libya that Doha was providing financial support to the extremist movement.