Leaked emails: UAE diplomat worked to denigrate Qatar and Kuwait
Leaked emails from the UAE’s ambassador to the US – Yousef al-Otaiba – show that he worked with the pro-Israel neo-conservative think-tank the Foundation for Defence of Democracies, to co-ordinate cyber-attacks on Qatar and Kuwait.
5 Jun 2017
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