Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux visited Qatar to plan security for the FIFA World Cup, despite the country’s history of supporting terrorism.
The police chief, who has only held office since April, visited Qatar earlier this month to plan security for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Dallas. Qatar has a history of supporting terrorist groups, including Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Comeaux traveled to Doha, the capital of Qatar, on August 10, said Dallas Police Lt. Tramese Jones to The Dallas Express. The trip brought “no expense to the city of Dallas.”
The chief stood in front of a Qatar soccer field, beside three other men, in a photo posted to Facebook by the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas, CLEAT.
In Qatar, Comeaux joined “members of FIFA” and officials with police departments from large cities, including Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Seattle, according to Jones. They engaged in “high-level discussions and training regarding the upcoming FIFA 2026 World Cup.”
“Specific details will not be disclosed,” Jones said. “The discussion focused solely on the upcoming event here in the United States and the collaborative efforts to keep everyone safe in Dallas, the other host cities, and the United States of America.”
Dallas is spending millions of dollars to prepare for the upcoming FIFA World Cup in 2026, as The Dallas Express previously reported. While 16 cities across North America will host FIFA matches, Arlington’s AT&T Stadium will host nine – the most games of any site.
Comeaux was invited by the Qatar Embassy and the “executive director of the chairman of FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022,” according to Jones. The Dallas Express asked for more information, but she declined further comment.
The chairman of the bid committee for FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 was none other than Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, son of one of Qatar’s former emirs. According to The Guardian, his father, Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, visited Gaza in 2012. “The visit gives Hamas legitimacy in the Arab world and internationally,” said Mkhaimar Abusada, of Gaza’s al-Azhar university, at the time.
“The emir is confirming that Qatar is the principal supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood takeover in Egypt and everywhere else… Qatar is using the Brotherhood to promote its own interests,” added al-Hayat newspaper columnist Ahmed Asfahani in 2012.
Amy Mek, with the Rise Align Ignite Reclaim Foundation (RAIR), previously reported on Comeaux’s visit to Qatar – as well as the broader influence of radical Islam near Dallas, like EPIC City. She pointed to Qatar’s historic support for terrorism.
🚨 ALERT TEXAS!
Dallas Police Chief Bows to Qatar — Hamas’s Banker
In just 100 days on the job, Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux has already flown 8,000 miles to Doha to “learn security” from Qatar — the terror state that bankrolls Hamas, shelters its commanders in luxury,… pic.twitter.com/EKeWz2oW25
— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) August 18, 2025
The Arlington Police Department sent a member of its “event management team” to Qatar during the 2022 FIFA World Cup to “learn more about security operations and meet FIFA officials,” as WFAA reported. Though officials said the department did not send anyone on the recent trip.
“From Dallas to Arlington, the pattern is clear: appeasement abroad, infiltration at home,” Mek wrote. “Is there ANY institution in Texas not compromised?”
The Dallas Express reached out to Mek, but did not hear back in time for publication.
Qatar has a complicated relationship with the United States. The State Department says Qatar has “contributed to progress, stability, and prosperity in the region,” and the country also gifted a large jet to President Donald Trump.
Back in 2017, however, Trump called out the nation for supporting terrorism, according to Straight Arrow News.
“The nation of Qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level,” Trump said. “Do we take the easy road, or do we finally take a hard but necessary action? We have to stop the funding of terrorism.”
Qatar backed Al Qaeda’s Al Nusrah Front in Syria from 2012 to 2015, according to a U.K. Parliament report from 2018. The country also tolerated the presence of terror financiers, who stayed in the country while raising millions for “jihadis.”
“The UK should exert maximum pressure on the Qatari government to cease any support to Islamist terror,” the report said.
Qatar has also supported Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, according to the BBC. While it joined the American coalition against ISIS, Iraqi Shia Muslim leaders alleged the country was supporting “jihadists.”