US Intelligence Says Russian Hackers Are To Blame For Qatar Crisis: CNN
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
Jun 6, 2017
It’s official: there is nothing in this world that Russian hackers can’t do.
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In an opportune coincidence, when discussing the Qatar crisis earlier today, we laid out the “official narrative” behind the dramatic fallout in diplomacy between Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
According to the official narrative, the reason for the latest Gulf crisis in which a coalition of Saudi-led states cut off diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar, is because – to everyone’s “stunned amazement” – Qatar was funding terrorists, and after Trump’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia in which he urged a crackdown on financial support of terrorism, and also following the FT’s report that Qatar has directly provided $1 billion in funding to Iran and al-Qaeda spinoffs, Saudi Arabia finally had had enough of its “rogue” neighbor, which in recent years had made ideologically unacceptable overtures toward both Shia Iran and Russia.
There was another detail that we should have mentioned: on May 23, a news report from the Qatari News Agency attributed to the the country’s ruler Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, criticized US foreign policy in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia, questioned whether the US President would last in office, and also appeared friendly to Iran. Following the publication of the report which infuriated Qatar’s anti-Iranian friends and GCC members, Qatar said its state news agency had been hacked, although the report continued to be carried by media in some other Gulf Arab states, which as Reuters said at the time “suggested renewed strains between Qatar and some of its Gulf Arab neighbors.”
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