Jihadi Calliet leads Qatari campaign against Abdel Rahim Ali

Some French media organs, which are sponsored by Qatar, have launched a vicious campaign against Abdel Rahim Ali, a member of the Egyptian House of Representatives and President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Paris, after a press conference held at the National Assembly (French parliament), with the participation of the leader of the National Front and former presidential candidate Marin Le Pen, to expose sources of financing terrorism in the Middle East.

Most of the reports relied on tweets by some suspicious man named Romain Caillet, who used to be hosted by French TV channels as he claimed to be an expert on the study of jihadist movements. Consequently it was revealed that Caillet was a member of these terrorist groups and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. Therefore, he was listed on the French “Fichier S” for people who bear pro-extremism ideologies.

However, the company has annulled the contract in May 2016, the prestigious French newspaper Nouvel Observateur revealed the shocking past of this suspicious man, who claimed to be an expert on the study of jihadist movements, while he actually had close ties with terrorist groups and the Muslim Brotherhood and their sponsors in Qatar.

In his 'black past', as revealed by the French newspapers, Caillet was expelled in February 2015 from Lebanon, where he lived as of 2010, after the Lebanese General Security uncovered that Caillet had strong ties with terrorist groups in Syria.

At the age of 20, Caillet converted to Islam in 1997. He had connections with the Muslim Brotherhood for many years.

The investigations in France revealed that Caillet had lived in Egypt as of early 2005 to learn Arabic. He lived in an apartment in the 8^th district of Cairo’s Nasr City with French extremists including Fabien Clain, a French jihadist who plotted for the Paris bombings in November 2015.

Caillet was interrogated by the French Anti-Terrorism Branch (SDAT) the French Judicial Police in 2008. He was then released on condition to be listed under the “Fichier S.”