Reporter/Middle East coordinator @ICIJorg. Words in @TheAtlantic. Middle East editor @ForeignPolicy once upon a time. Leak to me: [email protected]
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DavidKenner retweeted
NEW: we caught 🇨🇳Chinese hackers... again.
Twist: they're hacking journalists & activists, but we suspect they're private contractors.
State repression... with a profit margin.
Thread + how to protect yourself 1/
By us @citizenlab in collab w/@ICIJorg
DavidKenner retweeted
Harrowing and deeply important work by @DavidKenner and @NicoleSadek on the survivors of Assad's killing machine -- relatives of the missing, left to pick up the pieces without answers from the old regime or the new. A telling anecdote at the end. icij.org/investigations/dama…
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“An unlikely firm linked to key #Intellexa figures has also sprung back to life online: a skincare company called Medovie.”
icij.org/investigations/cypr…
DavidKenner retweeted
Douglas Edelman rose from owning a bar in Kyrgyzstan to winning $7 billion in defense contracts, only to plead guilty this week to hiding his fortune from U.S. tax authorities.
icij.org/inside-icij/2025/05…
DavidKenner retweeted
Russia is using vessels from its “ghost fleet” — hundreds of aging commercial ships with obscured ownership — to send military equipment to Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, leaked documents from a European Union naval mission reveal.
Read the story: buff.ly/weMFBQX
DavidKenner retweeted
Chris Ruddy in 2020 denied directly to me that he'd taken money from Qatar, and blamed Steve Bannon for pushing that rumor. nytimes.com/2020/11/29/busin…
In fact: washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
DavidKenner retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: A Qatari royal's investment firm (involved in the Sen. Menendez bribery case) poured $50 million into @NEWSMAX in 2019/20 -- while Qatar was under blockade and seeking influence and allies in Trumpworld.
👉@DavidKenner @sarahellison @jocwapo
wapo.st/3xbV1FI
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FLASHBACK: When @dlippman and I reported in 2018 that Qatar had eyed a stake in Newsmax, Newsmax denied it. "This is all false."
politico.com/story/2018/05/0…
TODAY: @Davidkenner @sarahellison @jocwapo confirm that reporting and reveal that a Qatari royal now owns a big chunk of the company
washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
DavidKenner retweeted
SCOOP-->A Qatari royal invested about $50 mln in right-wing cable channel Newsmax. Top editorial brass told employees to avoid critiquing the emirate: "We were not allowed to criticize Qatar," one person told us. From @DavidKenner @jocwapo and me. wapo.st/3xbV1FI
DavidKenner retweeted
SCOOP from @DavidKenner @jocwapo and me 👇👇👇
Exclusive: A member of the Qatari royal family invested roughly $50 million in Newsmax, according to documents and representatives for the media company and the royal, in a moment of acute Middle East tensions during the Trump administration. wapo.st/3IVzHqO
DavidKenner retweeted
#Sudanese businessman Abdelbasit Hamza, an accused financier of #Hamas, has extensive business ties in Europe and owns a stake in a lucrative Cyprus firm that mines Egyptian gold, a new investigation by @ICIJorg reveals. icij.org/investigations/cypr…
DavidKenner retweeted
The spy, the lawyer and their global surveillance empire. @ICIJorg on Intellexa icij.org/investigations/cypr…
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It was great to be part of this investigation with esteemed colleague @DavidKenner and @ICIJorg #CyprusConfidential
Inside Syria’s secret talks to buy forbidden U.S. equipment vital to the #Assad government’s survival.
NEW: As Syria’s civil war entered its bloodiest phase, an official at state-owned oil company Syrian Petroleum Co. contacted a middleman in Cyprus to try to buy American drilling equipment to keep the Assad regime’s oil revenue flowing. #CyprusConfidential bit.ly/47vaqOi
DavidKenner retweeted
1/12 🧵 #CyprusConfidential, a new investigation from ICIJ, @paper_trail_m and nearly 70 media partners, exposes the sprawling financial networks that have powered the Putin regime as it dominates its neighbors — and undermines the West.
bit.ly/473nACl
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NEW: Millions of leaked documents offer unprecedented insight into how accountants, bankers, auditors, and lawyers in Cyprus have catered to the rich and powerful — especially Russian oligarchs.
Welcome to #CyprusConfidential
occrp.org/en/cyprus-confiden…
DavidKenner retweeted
Beirut has 3x more space for cars than for parks. 80% of Lebanon's coastline has been illegally privatized. A public space advocate from @NahnooLeb tells @MohamdEch that policymakers are not interested in investing in parks, unless it involves building parking lots beneath them.
In Lebanon, where people are reeling from an economic crisis and desperate to breathe, open spaces are often shuttered or reserved for those who can pay — a product of the country's growing inequality and the power of private interests. wapo.st/3JJl5eC
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"She had been worried about being taken hostage...but was usually so exhausted she 'slept like a baby through the bombing.'”
What really scared her, she said, was the thought of not telling a story as well as she wanted to. “I don’t write easily. It’s a painful process.”
She reported on conflicts around the world and for a time was the only American broadcast journalist reporting from Baghdad during the U.S. “shock and awe” bombing campaign in 2003. nytimes.com/2022/09/07/busin…
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Quick thread on Hezbollah's involvement in the 1989 fatwa issued against Salman Rushdie (🧵1/6).
It didn’t take long for many Iranian-backed groups that formed Hezbollah at the time to organize a day of age against Rushdie.
ALT “We are ready to kill Rushdie”, shout these demonstrators who brandish an effigy of Rushdie resembling a devil and suspended from a gallows. (OLJ Archive Photo Toufic Abdallah)
