Wikileaks founder Assange slams Al Arabiya report against Qatar as ‘absurd fabrication’

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has slammed Saudi Arabia's Al-Arabiya network for publishing ‘absurd’ reports against Qatar. 

He quoted an Al Arabiya report attributing to him and said that network is publishing ‘absurd fabrications’ regarding the ongoing Gulf Crisis.

“The Al Arabiya network (HQ in UAE) has been publishing increasingly absurd fabrications as the UAE v Qatar dispute continues. One from today,” he tweeted.

Assange pointed to a report by Al Arabia quoting him as saying that “he has seven cables about Qatar and only five were published” after Qatar negotiated with the website’s administration.

He slammed this report as network’s fabrication.

After the blockade started on June 5, the media in siege countries has been publishing fake reports and lies to tarnish Qatar’s image. Many people have called them out and Assange’s tweet is the latest such instance.

Earlier Qatar has raised the issue of broadcast of a graphic simulation by Al Arabiya TV in which a fighter jet was shown firing a missile at a Qatar Airways passenger aircraft for “violating airspace of blockading countries”. They were trying to intimidate people with such reports.