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Who Hacked Qatar's News Sites?

<em>The Washington Post</em> reported the UAE was behind the planting of fake news that sparked the diplomatic crisis. The Emirates denies the charge.
Source: Neil Hall / Reuters

The foreign minister of the United Arab Emirates denied Monday a report in The Washington Post that said the Emirates was behind the posting of false stories on Qatari news websites that sparked the regional fallout between four Saudi-led Arab countries and Qatar.

Anwar Gargash, the Emirates foreign minister, told the BBC the report was “untrue.” In a statement posted on Twitter, Yousef al-Otaiba, the UAE’s ambassador

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