Yousef Al-Otaiba

(ANTIMEDIA) — Thanks in part to the Washington Post, we now have a fairly decent idea of who was ultimately behind the denigration of relations between Qatar and a number of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, particularly Saudi Arabia.

United Arab Emirates’ Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan listens questions during a meeting with the press in Vilnius, Lithuania, July 11, 2017. (AP/Mindaugas Kulbis)
The UAE was behind a hacking campaign against Doha which sparked a diplomatic crisis in the Gulf region, US intelligence sources have said, after false statements attributed to Qatar’s emir were posted on an official news agency website.

Yousef Al Otaiba, the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States of America, left, and Susan Rice, National Security Adviser, talk in the State Dining Room of the White House, July 25, 2013. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

(ANTIMEDIA) — Egypt, the UAE, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, and the Maldives — spearheaded by Saudi Arabia — have severed almost all of their ties with Qatar.

(ANTIMEDIA) — The email account of one of Washington’s most influential foreign operatives, Yousef Al-Otaiba, has been hacked. A number of those emails were sent to the Intercept, as well as the Huffington Post and the Daily Beast, the Intercept reports. The hacker has allegedly promised to release a trove of these emails publicly.

Yousef Al Otaiba, the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States of America, left, and Susan Rice, National Security Adviser, talk in the State Dining Room of the White House, July 25, 2013. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
Hackers have released email exchanges between the Emirati ambassador to the US and top foreign policy figures that include details of a forthcoming meeting between UAE officials and a pro-Israel think tank, reports said on Saturday.

Press TV – June 3, 2017 A number of emails belonging to the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to the United States have revealed that Yousef Al-Otaiba has been collaborating with a pro-Israel think tank against Iran, a report says. The Intercept published a report on Saturday, suggesting that the emails, sent by hackers […]