Zionist Spies Impersonated Journalists to Elicit Info From UAE Dissidents: Report

Date: 17 April 2021 - 20:48

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DUBAI (Dispatches) – A private Zionist spy firm impersonated journalists in order to gather information from opponents of an Emirati royal family, a report says.
A Times of Israel investigation has revealed that the owner of the firm in question, Bluehawk CI, has a history of prior fraud prosecutions in the occupied territories.
The regime’s ministry of war chose not to respond to an inquiry as to why it had not regulated the firm’s activities abroad.
According to the April 6 report in the Daily Beast, in early 2020 individuals pretending to be a Fox News researcher and a reporter for Italy’s La Stampa newspaper approached two individuals who have fallen afoul of the leadership of Ras Al Khaimah, one of seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates (UAE). According to the Daily Beast, the journalist impersonators tried to trick the two men into divulging information about their legal disputes with the emirate.
The report underlines how the occupying regime has in recent years spawned an industry of seemingly unregulated spy-for-hire firms, with former military officers privatizing skills they acquired in secretive spy units and often selling their know-how to sketchy individuals or other regimes.
Facebook revealed that the accounts used by the two supposed journalists were associated with the private Zionist spy firm Bluehawk CI.
In one of the cases, a woman claiming to be named "Samantha,” a FOX News journalist, contacted Oussama el-Omari by email, trying to obtain information about his legal rifts with the Ras Al Khaimah regime.
Omari, former chief executive and director general of the Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone Authority, was convicted in absentia in the UAE  for "embezzlement and abuse of position” following a succession battle in the emirate.
Similarly, another Facebook user pretending to be a La Stampa reporter contacted Khater Massaad, another critic of the current Ras Al Khaimah leadership.
Massaad was convicted by an Emirati court in 2015 of embezzlement from Ras Al Khaimah’s sovereign wealth fund, RAKIA.
Both Omari and Massaad say the charges against them are politically motivated.
Last year’s normalization of ties between the Zionist regime and the UAE paved the way for the regime’s companies to do espionage activities in the region.