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Russian hackers ‘planted false story’ behind Mideast crisis
10 years agoWASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 06: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) (L) arrives for a closed-door committee meeting in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill June 6, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump's former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn handed over more than 600 pages of documents to the Senate intelligence committee this week. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images/AFP CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP
FBI experts visited Qatar in late May to analyze an alleged cyber breach that saw the hackers place the fake story with Qatar's state news agency, the US broadcaster said.