You Should Be Worried About NADRAGate, Here’s Why

One of the first reports that was made public was in June 2015 published by Intercept which highlighted GCHQ’s infiltrating PTCL’s Core Routers and hence allowing them not only intercept every single user’s traffic but it also had abilities to re-route the traffic to their passive collection systems.
Gulf Crisis – Southeast Asia Has Seen It All Before

To Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, the 2011 Arab popular revolts that toppled autocratic leaders in four countries and sparked the rise of Islamist forces posed a mortal threat. In response, the two countries launched a counterrevolution that six years later continues to leave a trail of brutal repression at home and spilt blood elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa.
Gulf Crisis – Surrender or Dig In For The Long Haul

The stakes are far higher than when Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain withdrew their ambassadors from Doha in 2014 for a period of ten months, but failed to force Qatar to change its policies. Saudi Arabia and the UAE by now also breaking off economic ties are also seeking to disrupt Qatar’s air, sea and land links and complicate its exports and imports, and particularly its food supplies.