If Qatar wasn't openly backing the rebels in Syria, why does it say it is? Even today in The Peninsula you will find this:

A report by the prosecutors — commissioned by Qatar, which backs the Syrian rebels — provides “clear evidence” of starvation, strangulation and beating of detainees in President Bashar Al Assad’s prisons.
http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/news/middle-east/269397/syria-photos-show-1...