{"id":17407,"date":"2018-10-04T23:22:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T23:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17407"},"modified":"2018-10-04T23:22:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T23:22:44","slug":"netherlands-officials-say-they-caught-russian-spies-targeting-chemical-weapons-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=17407","title":{"rendered":"Netherlands officials say they caught Russian spies targeting chemical weapons body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Western governments mounted an unprecedented and coordinated fightback Thursday against &#8220;brazen&#8221; attempts by Russia to meddle in international affairs, publicly unmasking alleged intelligence agents and blaming Moscow for a series of audacious cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The Dutch government accused Russia&#8217;s military intelligence agency, the GRU, of targeting the world&#8217;s chemical weapons watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), through a foiled cyber operation.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Hours earlier, Britain, backed by close intelligence allies Australia and New Zealand, pointed the finger at the GRU for carrying out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/10\/03\/uk\/uk-russia-cyber-attacks-intl\/index.html\">worldwide campaign of &#8220;malicious&#8221; cyberattacks<\/a>, including the hacking of the US Democratic National Committee in 2016.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Western governments mounted an unprecedented and coordinated fightback Thursday against &#8220;brazen&#8221; attempts by Russia to meddle in international affairs, publicly unmasking alleged intelligence agents and blaming Moscow for a series of audacious cyberattacks.The Dutch government accused Russia&#8217;s military intelligence agency, the GRU, of targeting the world&#8217;s chemical weapons watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}