Otaiba offered to buy the former Cabinet official lunch and passed along a message from his boss back home. "MBZ sends his best from Abu Dhabi," the ambassador wrote, using a nickname for UAE Crown Prince Muhammed bin Zayed. "He says 'give them hell tomorrow.'"
The leaked documents also reveal that the Al-Otaiba had strong relations with Israeli and American institutes. Since Qatar has always had a controversial relationship with the UAE, AL-Otaiba made use of his friendship with his Israeli and American allies to put pressure on Qatar and isolate it.
In another part of the documents we can see that FDD Senior Counselor John Hannah had a close friendship with Al-Otaiba. Hannah claimed that he is honored to be in the company and friendship with the UAE. Hannah and Al-Otaiba also repeatedly discussed about Qatar. According to the emails they intended to discuss about "Al Jazeera as an instrument of regional instability."
While hackers addressed themselves as GlobalLeaks, undoubtedly Qatar intelligence service was behind the scene. Apparently, since Qatar found the Emeriti-American plots, it leaked the documents. In other words, this move by Qatar could be counted as declaring war against the UAE.
As the aftermath of this event, the UAE has remarkably increased its attempt to isolate Qatar. For the first step Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed went to the U.S. to visit his old friend and business partner Donald Trump. Zayed's plan for involving Trump into the Gulf affairs was that firstly make the connection between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia strong and then follow up his goals through their relations.
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