الاثنين، 2 أكتوبر 2017

UAE Buy Influence on US Think Tanks


Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks

United Arab Emirates, a major supporter of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, quietly provided a donation of more than $1 million to help build the center’s gleaming new glass and steel headquarters not far from the White House. Qatar, the small but wealthy Middle East nation, agreed last year to make a $14.8 million, four-year donation to Brookings, which has helped fund a Brookings affiliate in Qatar and a project on United States relations with the Islamic world.
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United Arab Emirates seeking to persuade United States policy makers that the Brotherhood is a dangerous threat to the region’s stability.
The United Arab Emirates, which has become a major supporter of the Center for Strategic and International Studies over the past decade, turned to the think tank in 2007
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in 2012, when a revised agreement was signed between Brookings and the Qatari government, the Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs itself praised the agreement on its website, announcing that “the center will assume its role in reflecting the bright image of Qatar in the international media, especially the American ones.” Brookings officials also acknowledged that they have regular meetings with Qatari government officials about the center’s activities and budget, and that the former Qatar prime minister sits on the center’s advisory board.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/us/politics/foreign-powers-buy-influence-at-think-tanks.html?_r=0
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Gulf Proxy War: UAE Seeks to Further Damage Qatar's Already Tarnished Image

The New York Times reported that Camstoll's public disclosure forms "filed as a registered foreign agent, showed a pattern of conversations with journalists who subsequently wrote articles critical of Qatar's role in terrorist fund-raising." The Intercept asserted that Camstoll was hired less than a week after it was established in late 2012 by Abu Dhabi-owned Outlook Energy Investments, LLC with a retainer of $400,000 a month.
"The point here is not that Qatar is innocent of supporting extremists... The point is that this coordinated media attack on Qatar - using highly paid former U.S. officials and their media allies - is simply a weapon used by the Emirates, Israel, the Saudis and others to advance their agendas," The Intercept said.
UAE opposition to Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood dates back at least a decade. Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Armed Forces Chief of Staff Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed bin Zayed Al Nahayan warned US diplomats already in 2004 that "we are having a (culture) war with the Muslim Brotherhood in this country," according to US diplomatic cables disclosed by Wikileaks. In 2009. Sheikh Mohamed went as far as telling US officials that Qatar is "part of the Muslim Brotherhood." He suggested that a review of Al Jazeera employees would show that 90 percent were affiliated with the Brotherhood. Other UAE officials privately described Qatar as "public enemy number 3", after Iran and the Brotherhood.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-dorsey/gulf-proxy-war-uae-seeks_b_5898246.html


Hacked emails reveal UAE influence on US think tanks

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/07/hacked-emails-reveal-uae-influence-tanks-170731205133389.html


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كيف اثر مسؤولون سابقين في وزراءة الخزانة الاميركية مع الإمارات العربية المتحدة في الصحفيين الأمريكيين

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the UAE has opted for a more covert strategy: paying millions of dollars to a U.S. lobbying firm – composed of former high-ranking Treasury officials from both parties – to plant anti-Qatar stories with American journalists. That more subtle tactic has been remarkably successful, and shines important light on how easily political narratives in U.S. media discourse can be literally purchased.
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The United Arab Emirates have retained an American consulting firm, Camstoll Group, staffed by several former United States Treasury Department officials. Its public disclosure forms, filed as a registered foreign agent, showed a pattern of conversations with journalists who subsequently wrote articles critical of Qatar’s role in terrorist fund-raising.
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How Former Treasury Officials and the UAE Are Manipulating American Journalists

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/25/uae-qatar-camstoll-group/

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Can a tiny country as UAE buys America by using its credit card http://aljazeeraalarabiamodwana.blogspot.com/2017/06/can-tiny-country-as-uae-buy-amerca-vy.html …
  Democrat think tank fails to disclose $700K donation from UAE in report urging closer US-UAE ties 

http://lobelog.com/is-cap-shilling-for-the-uae/?utm_content=bufferf73e4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer


Insightful article by on how a US arms deals to funded US think tank, see


Haaretz exposes Gulf countries vying for US think tank influence with petro dollars 
http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-1.793878?v=1FEC99DF2DBEF6B071B4D5BC08584065 …

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Ivanka Trump fund takes $100M from Saudi. So what did she do with it? Arabia, UAE - NY Daily News http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ivanka-trump-fund-takes-100m-saudi-arabia-uae-article-



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"The two men - Hamad al Mazroie, the de facto head of the UAE intelligence service, and Mohammed Dahlan, a bin Zayed adviser who is fluent in Russian - were never named by Prince when he testified"


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THREAD: #Qatar claims to have EVIDENCE of “illicit influence” by the UAE on Jared Kushner & other Trump associates, including details of SECRET MEETINGS, but decided not to give info to Mueller for fear of retaliation from Trump‼️ 1/

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BBC obtained leaked emails that show lobbying effort to get Sec Tillerson sacked for not supporting UAE against Qatar in GulfCrisis.


President Trump fires Rex Tillerson: Live updates @CNNPolitics

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CNN: UAE Ambassador Al-Otaiba wrote a draft speech TRUMP

in which he said he was to QATAR support terrorism, and so he gave him the blockade of Qatar to Trump. 


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 CNN: FBI is overtaking Russia's stage, and the focus is now on the Emirati role and the Emirati attempts to influence the White House by exploiting the need for money.

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