attacks on yemeni citizens and institutions for several years now and as the us treasury secretary steven minucci and said on wednesday these two groups pose a national security threat to the united states and to its allies what is significant about this new round of sanctions it's that it's being done through something called the terrorist financing targeting center this is an organization that was set up by the u.s. and by the gulf countries back in late may of course it goes without saying that just a couple of weeks after this organization was set up the blockade against the government of qatar was launched into question whether that country itself was doing enough to fight terrorist financing even though the government in doha has argued strenuously that it is doing its part and even signed a new memorandum of understanding with washington to prove its commitment there are still been questions from other gulf countries namely saudi arabia about whether doha is doing enough to crack down on terrorist groups now with the joint announcement coming from washington doha riyadh and other regional

treasury secretary steven minucci and said on wednesday these two groups pose a national security threat to the united states and to its allies what is significant about this new round of sanctions it's that it's being done through something called the terrorist financing targeting center this is an organization that was set up by the u.s. and by the gulf countries back in late may of course it goes without saying that just a couple of weeks after this organization was set up the blockade against the government of qatar was launched into question whether that country itself was doing enough to fight terrorist financing even though the government in doha has argued strenuously that it is doing its part and even signed a new member random of understanding with washington to prove its commitment there are still been questions from other gulf countries namely saudi arabia about whether doha is doing enough to crack down on terrorist groups now with the joint announcement coming from washington doha riyadh and other regional capitals there might be no question that this work is actually takin

treasury secretary steven minucci and he said that this was a joint effort carried out by the gulf countries including qatar and saudi arabia and the united states this after the of an establishment of the terrorism financing targeting center back in mid may these seven countries agreed that they would share information and work together to try to store about those people and those entities that are providing financial support to these groups al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and to eisele certainly this is their first big announcement but they say that this is evidence that their decision to cooperate is actually starting to turn out to be a positive move and was what's the significance then of the u.s. and cuts are working together on this. well what is significant is that after the terrorism financing targeting center was first set up in may people will recall that a few weeks later in early june some members of the g.c.c. imposed a blockade on qatar and one of their reasons was qatar was not doing enough to what trying to fight terrorism that is a charge of course which the government in

treasury secretary steven minucci and said on wednesday these two groups pose a national security threat to the united states and to its allies what is significant about this new round of sanctions it's that it's being done through something called the terrorist financing targeting center this is an organization that was set up by the u.s. and by the gulf countries back in late may of course it goes without saying that just a couple of weeks after this organization was set up the blockade against the government of qatar was launched into question whether that country itself was doing enough to fight terrorist financing even though the government in doha has argued strenuously that it is doing its part and even signed a new member random of understanding with washington to prove its commitment there are still been questions from other gulf countries namely saudi arabia about. whether doha is doing enough to crack down on terrorist groups now with the joint announcement coming from washington doha riyadh and other regional capitals there might be no question that this work is actually taki