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Jan. 20, 2024, 4:29 p.m. ET
The oil-rich Gulf state of Qatar employed a former CIA agent’s corporate to discredit Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., and different lawmakers who oppose Hamas and its father or mother group, the Muslim Brotherhood, consistent with paperwork bought via Fox Information Virtual.
The paperwork expose that the alleged Qatar state-funded espionage marketing campaign focused Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, as a result of he had sought to have the Muslim Brotherhood designated as a Overseas Terrorist Group.
The clandestine report, titled “Mission ENDGAME” and drafted via U.S. corporate World Chance Advisors (GRA), which used to be based via the ex-CIA worker Kevin Chalker, reads, “Top Alert: An assault on Hamas is an assault on Qatar. An assault at the Muslim Brotherhood is an assault on Qatar.”
The March 2017 Qatari-funded course of action to torpedo anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim Brotherhood law and insurance policies famous that “Sen. Ted Cruz has reintroduced his invoice to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist team. Until you act quickly, your enemies will inject Qatar into this combat.”
Within the month sooner than Qatar reportedly began its assaults on adversaries of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, Fox Information Virtual reported on Cruz’s law to outlaw the Muslim Brotherhood.
The oil-rich Gulf state of Qatar employed a former CIA agent’s corporate to discredit Sen. Ted Cruz and different lawmakers who oppose Hamas and its father or mother group, the Muslim Brotherhood. Getty Photographs
Since Hamas massacred some 1,200 other people on October 7 in southern Israel, together with greater than 30 American citizens, Qatar has been within the crosshairs of U.S. senators and some U.S. representatives for harboring Hamas leaders in Doha and allegedly financing it.
Cruz advised Fox Information Virtual: “The Qatari executive spends uncountable billions of greenbacks selling or even investment the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and different terrorist teams. They have got both purchased or intimidated massive portions of Washington, D.C., into silence. It’s under no circumstances unexpected they might imagine the few ultimate outspoken combatants of the Muslim Brotherhood in Congress to be Qatar’s enemies. It’s gone time for the U.S. to reevaluate the U.S.-Qatari courting.”
Hamas has declared itself as “one of the most wings of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine.”
The March 2017 Qatari-funded course of action to torpedo anti-Hamas and anti-Muslim Brotherhood law and insurance policies famous “Sen. Ted Cruz has reintroduced his invoice to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist team.” AFP by the use of Getty Photographs
American allies similar to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have both outlawed or designated the Muslim Brotherhood a 15 may organization.
The “Mission ENDGAME” proposal says, “Qatar’s Enemies Should Be Known” and, “Within the U.S., your enemies perform within the shadows. You’ll’t forestall the enemies that you’ll’t to find.”
The lifestyles of the Qatar-sponsored “Mission ENDGAME” used to be first reported in an AP article titled “FBI probing ex-CIA officer’s spying for Global Cup host Qatar,” in 2022.
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla, co-sponsored the invoice to sanction the Muslim Brotherhood in 2017.
World Chance Advisors marked Diaz-Balart as one of the most Gulf state’s enemies, consistent with the congressman and AP.
American allies similar to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have both outlawed or designated the Muslim Brotherhood a 15 may organization. ZUMAPRESS.com
Diaz-Balart advised Fox Information Virtual, “The revelation that the Qatari executive now not best focused my administrative center however two sitting U.S. senators isn’t a surprise and best validates my longstanding issues with the Qatari executive. This isn’t the primary time a regime has focused my administrative center the use of covert ways, and it is going to now not dissuade my get to the bottom of to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a 15 may organization.”
A former worker of GRA who bought the “Mission ENDGAME” report from the corporate’s administrative center in Doha advised Fox Information Virtual that Qatar’s ruling Al-Thani circle of relatives, by the use of GRA, aimed to additionally discredit Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas.
Cotton’s view that the secular ruler of Egypt, President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, is a extra dependable American best friend than the previous Muslim Brotherhood regime beneath the overdue President Mohamed Morsi may have performed a job in Qatar’s together with the senator on its ideological hit checklist.
When requested about GRA’s offensive secret agent operation in opposition to Cotton, a spokesperson for the senator advised Fox Information Virtual that “Senator Cotton is probably not commenting in this at the moment.”
Rep. Jack Bergman, R-Mich., who has large experience referring to Qatar’s energy politics, advised Fox Information Virtual, “As a member of Congress, I will be able to proceed to make use of my administrative center to carry Qatar responsible. Qatar should be uncovered and their years-long hacking marketing campaign to silence critics now not simply of Qatar but additionally critics of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas can not pass unchecked.”
Bergman, a retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant common, added, “If the Qataris are keen to make use of their state espionage functions to offer protection to terrorist teams via concentrated on senators and the [former] chairman of the Area Overseas Affairs Committee, Ed Royce, then how are we able to be assured within the safety of our servicemen and ladies—and our secrets and techniques—at CENTCOM’s ahead headquarters in Doha?”
The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has roughly 8,000 body of workers at Al Udeid Air Base—the biggest American army base within the Center East—southwest of Doha.
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart co-sponsored the invoice to sanction the Muslim Brotherhood in 2017. AP
Former Area Overseas Affairs Committee Chairman Royce, R-Calif., didn’t reply to Fox Information Virtual WhatsApp messages and a telephone name.
When requested concerning the reported Qatari state-financed espionage operation in opposition to American politicians and voters, a State Division spokesperson advised Fox Information Virtual, “We refer you to the FBI referring to any doable investigation.”
The FBI advised Fox Information Virtual, “The FBI has no remark. We will neither verify nor deny engaging in explicit investigations.”
Kevin Carroll, the attorney representing Kevin Chalker, wrote Fox Information Virtual, “What I know and will talk about is that there are NO pending indictments in opposition to Mr. Chalker or any staff of GRA.”
He endured, “As an alternative, Mr. Chalker and GRA were subjected to civil court cases filed in federal courts in California and Washington, D.C., since 2018. The case in California has been pushed aside. The plaintiffs’ 3rd grievance within the New York case has noticed a number of of the unique claims and defendants pushed aside.”
A former worker of GRA who bought the “Mission ENDGAME” report from the corporate’s administrative center in Doha advised Fox Information Virtual that Qatar’s ruling Al-Thani circle of relatives, by the use of GRA, aimed to additionally discredit Sen. Tom Cotton. Bonnie Money/UPI/Shutterstock
“Mr. Chalker has a long-standing report of carrier to the US and any allegations of wrongdoing—a lot much less defamatory allegations of felony wrongdoing—via him or GRA are simply false,” Carroll mentioned.
Fox Information Virtual reviewed a 2023 electronic mail written via Chalker, wherein he mentioned that the FBI had confirmed up unannounced on the flats of former GRA staff.
He urged his staff to state they’re represented via criminal suggest and confident his employees that GRA pays for the legal professional charges.
Chalker additionally ridiculed the FBI, mentioning, “I’ve 0 recognize for the FBI. They’re a number of Keystone Law enforcement officials who’re poorly skilled, inadequately skilled . . . .”
Carroll advised that Fox Information Virtual will have to now not file on Chalker and GRA.
Rep. Jack Bergman, who has large experience referring to Qatar’s energy politics, advised Fox Information Virtual, “As a member of Congress, I will be able to proceed to make use of my administrative center to carry Qatar responsible.” Getty Photographs
In a chain of emails, he wrote, “I’d lean again from the tale” and, “I might now not run with the tale about Chalker and GRA. Can give an explanation for via telephone.”
When reached at the telephone, Caroll refused to head at the report as to why he hostile newsletter of the brand new allegations in opposition to Chalker and GRA.
Chalker declined to be interviewed via Fox Information Virtual.
A press question used to be despatched to his new corporate, Qrypt, a era company that says to have “constructed the one cryptographic resolution able to securing information indefinitely.”
Fox Information Virtual reviewed an April, 2017 signed letter of intent between the Qatar’s regime and GRA.
In line with the letter, GRA would furnish the Al-Thani circle of relatives with “enhanced monitoring and tracking, intelligence assortment, predictive intelligence, data operations.”
The AP additionally showed the letter of intent in its 2022 file.
The AP famous that GRA would offer Qatar’s state with “different secret agent services and products for $60 million over 3 years. Different information display a Gibraltar-based corporate owned via Chalker started receiving seven- and eight-figure bills from Qatar in a while later on.”
Fox Information Virtual reviewed the monetary information of the Gibraltar corporate reportedly owned via Chalker and cited within the AP file.
Chalker and GRA in “Mission ENDGAME” additionally zoomed in at the American group Counter Extremism Mission (CEP) so as to “Mitigate Assaults” in opposition to Qatar.
Former U.S. Ambassador Mark Wallace, the CEO of the Counter Extremist Mission, advised Fox Information Virtual that when the Qatari operation “hacked accounts that contained piece of email with individuals of CEP management, they engaged in a PR marketing campaign to spoil us and paid American citizens to do their bidding. All to whitewash their beef up of Hamas within the face of our complaint. We now have referred to as out their beef up of Hamas since 2017.”
In November, Center East mavens advised Fox Information Virtual that the Obama-era deal to permit Hamas terrorists to are living in Doha backfired in opposition to American pursuits.
Wallace mentioned the “The best prevarication of the duplicitous Al-Thanis is that they didn’t know what their cash can be used for. However they knew from 2017 and our loud public marketing campaign they usually used their hydrocarbon wealth to whitewash their insidious beef up for Hamas and others. They’re accountable. Any American that labored for Qataris to whitewash their habits and to silence critics will have to lift their palms sooner than the reflect as a result of their palms are coated with blood.”
Wallace published an alleged try via Qatar to bribe an American.
At the different facet of the Atlantic, Qatar is accused of bribing individuals of the Eu parliament. Jeffrey Arguedas/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock
Wallace claimed that “Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani (HBJ) and his Al-Thani deputy requested to satisfy our colleague Joe Lieberman in the middle of this dispute — they made it transparent that he will have to identify his worth, and they’d pay it to prevent this effort. He made the sensible resolution and courteously declined.”
Joe Lieberman used to be a former U.S. Senator from Connecticut, and a Democratic candidate for vice-president.
At the different facet of the Atlantic, Qatar is accused of bribing individuals of the Eu parliament.
“The State of Qatar categorically rejects any makes an attempt to affiliate it with accusations of misconduct. Any affiliation of the Qatari executive with the reported claims is baseless and gravely misinformed,” an respectable with the Qatari Embassy in Washington, D.C., prior to now advised Fox Information Virtual.
HBJ used to be the previous High Minister of Qatar and confronted complaint remaining 12 months after it used to be published that he issued an antisemitic commentary to the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas in 2022, mentioning “Consider oil [was sold] via some Jews . . . what can be the cost of a barrel of oil? It will be the costliest factor on the planet. It might be extra treasured than the rest, like medication.”
When puzzled about “Mission ENDGAME” and different allegations in opposition to Qatar, Sheikh Meshal bin Hamad Al-Thani, Qatar’s ambassador to the US, wrote Fox Information Virtual by the use of WhatsApp, “will attach you with our media attaché who will be capable to lend a hand. Please succeed in out to Ali Al Ansari on the above electronic mail.”
Fox Information Virtual press queries despatched to Al Ansari went unanswered.
Qatar’s embassies in Berlin and London additionally declined to remark.
Meshal Al-Thani refused to respond to follow-up Fox Information Virtual press queries.
The “Mission ENDGAME” proposal additionally laid out a media technique for Qatar to advance its schedule.
“Many information organizations received’t submit ENDGAME content material, so Qatar’s media’s belongings play a crucial function.”
One of the alleged Qatari media belongings indexed within the report are The New York Occasions, Center East Eye and The Intercept.
The Center East Eye’s criminal crew advised Fox Information Virtual, “Our view is that that is an outdated, drained, lazy and false competition. We’re an independently funded virtual information group.”
The Center East Eye mentioned Jamal Bessasso is the landlord of the inside track outlet.
Bessasso prior to now labored for the Qatari-owned Al Jazeera information group and the Hamas-affiliated Al-Quds TV in Lebanon.
A lot of Fox Information Virtual press queries despatched to The Intercept went unanswered.
New York Occasions spokesman Charles Stadtlander requested Fox Information Virtual by the use of WhatsApp to ship its questions via electronic mail for a reaction.
The New York Occasions declined to remark to more than one Fox Information Virtual Electronic mail press queries.
A report supplied to Fox Information Virtual from a supply conversant in the New York Occasions’ courting with Qatar famous that Qatar is a minority proprietor of the New York Occasions development in Ny by the use of its regulate over Brookfield Belongings Companions.
The New York Occasions declined to touch upon Qatar’s partial possession of its development.
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