Former NSA Hackers Helped UAE To Spy On Al Jazeera And BBC

IN THE NEWSA UAE-backed spying mission targeted the host of an Al Jazeera program called “The Opposite Direction,” which gave voice to pressing issues of the day. Here, the company’s Doha headquarters.Photo by Reuters/Naseem Zeitoon

Joel Schectman & Christopher Bing, Reuters: American hackers helped UAE spy on Al Jazeera chairman, BBC host

A group of American hackers who once worked for U.S. intelligence agencies helped the United Arab Emirates spy on a BBC host, the chairman of Al Jazeera and other prominent Arab media figures during a tense 2017 confrontation pitting the UAE and its allies against the Gulf state of Qatar.

The American operatives worked for Project Raven, a secret Emirati intelligence program that spied on dissidents, militants and political opponents of the UAE monarchy. A Reuters investigation in January revealed Project Raven’s existence and inner workings, including the fact that it surveilled a British activist and several unnamed U.S. journalists.

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