{"id":27806,"date":"2017-11-09T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27806"},"modified":"2017-11-09T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T20:40:10","slug":"leaked-documents-expose-stunning-plan-to-wage-financial-war-on-qatar-and-steal-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=27806","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Documents Expose Stunning Plan to Wage Financial War on Qatar–And Steal the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A PLAN FOR<\/u> the United Arab Emirates to wage financial war against its Gulf rival Qatar was found in the task folder of an email account belonging to UAE Ambassador to the United States Yousef al-Otaiba and subsequently obtained by The Intercept.<\/p>\n

The economic warfare involved an attack on Qatar\u2019s currency using bond and derivatives manipulation. The plan, laid out in a slide deck\u00a0provided to\u00a0The Intercept through the group Global Leaks, was aimed at tanking Qatar\u2019s economy, according to documents drawn up by a bank outlining the strategy.<\/p>\n

The outline, prepared by Banque Havilland, a private Luxembourg-based bank owned by the family of controversial British financier David Rowland, laid out a scheme to drive down the value of Qatar\u2019s bonds and increase the cost of insuring them, with the ultimate goal of creating a currency crisis that\u00a0would drain the country\u2019s cash reserves.<\/p>\n

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A screenshot of Ambassador Yousef al-Otaiba\u2019s Outlook Tasks.<\/p>\n

Photo: Global Leaks<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Rowland has long had close relationships with UAE leadership, particularly with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed, known as MBZ. The bank is currently in the process of creating a new financial institution <\/a>in cooperation with the UAE\u2019s sovereign wealth fund, Mubadala, according to contracts and correspondence obtained by The Intercept outlining the terms of the deal. That project is separate from the Qatar operation, but it reflects the close relationship between the bank and the UAE.<\/p>\n

The Qatar debt project would be grandiose in its ambitions. \u201cControl the yield curve, decide the future,\u201d reads the planning document, referring to a standard financial-industry graph showing a country\u2019s borrowing costs for debt that is due at different dates.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Max Faulkner\/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram\/AP LEAKED DOCUMENTS EXPOSE STUNNING PLAN TO WAGE FINANCIAL WAR ON QATAR \u2014 AND STEAL THE WORLD CUP A PLAN FOR the United Arab Emirates to wage financial war against its Gulf rival Qatar was found in the task folder of an email account belonging to UAE Ambassador to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16946,10959,1026,13801,5567,3217,2428,16947],"class_list":["post-27806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-ben-walsh","tag-financial-war","tag-qatar","tag-ryan-grim","tag-the-intercept","tag-uae","tag-united-arab-emirates","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27807,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27806\/revisions\/27807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}