PART 2:
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Focus: George Nader has co-operated with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation
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Spy:
Hamad al Mazroie, the de facto head of the UAE intelligence service - see outside London department store Harrods - can be revealed to have been at Erik Prince's meeting with a Russian oligarch in the Seychelles
Leaked text messages have claimed to show the spymaster threatening to release naked photos of Kuwaiti politicians in an attempt to influence the country's parliamentary elections.
Abdullah al Saleh, a Saudi opposition activist in London tweeted a copy of the texts, claiming: 'Hamad al Mazroie leaked this picture to social media outlets to blackmail and influence the Kuwaiti elections.'
A Qatari news anchor for state broadcaster al Jazeera also launched a lawsuit against al Mazroie claiming that the spymaster threatened to release fabricated sex tapes of the anchor.
On Twitter, anchor Jamal Rayyan wrote: 'I am amazed how Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, and Sheiks of the #UAE would accept such acts done by Hamad al Mazroie and his partners. They used Emirati cell phones and sent photoshoped/fake sexual photos along with video and audio insults to my WhatsApp.'
Dahlan is a former leader of the Fatah party in the Gaza Strip and was exiled in 2011 and fled to the UAE amid allegations he may have murdered Yasser Arafat.
There he became a security adviser to bin Zayed, according to the Emirati source, and began working as an informal UAE emissary to the Kremlin, helping coordinate the UAE's military action to cooperate with Russian interests.
'We’re entering Dahlan's ninth year there now. He became closer and closer to MBZ and more powerful in the UAE.
'His assignments changed from just giving advice to going on secret missions, meeting at the Kremlin on behalf of MBZ,' said the source.
The source added that Dahlan worked closely with both Prince and Nader.
The sources claimed that the Seychelles meeting, which is being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller as part of his probe into Russian meddling in the US election, is the tip of the iceberg.
Family: Erik Prince is the sister of Betsy DeVos, Trump's education secretary
The source close to bin Zayed claims that 'Dahlan met with Erik Prince and the Russians several times' in the Maldives - a second island archipelago.
Prince has never disclosed further meetings and told the House intel committee that he had not met Russians in any form after the Seychelles encounter.
He also never told members of Congress that Nader was present.
A spokesman for Prince declined to comment. DailyMail.com has reached out to the UAE's embassy in Washington for comment but has yet to receive any.
DailyMail.com can disclose that Nader is not just a Lebanese-American businessman but has played a part in brokering a multi-billion dollar arms deal with Russia.
Former Iraqi officials told Arab news site Al-Monitor that Nader helped broker a controversial $4.2bn arms deal between Russia and Iraq in 2012.
One official told the site that Nader travelled to Moscow and met with Russian officials, saying he represented Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Another who was involved in the deal said he saw Nader discuss the deal with Maliki in a Moscow hotel at the time.
Nader is cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller for his investigation into the Trump campaign, according to the New York Times.
Nader gave testimony to a grand jury convened in Mueller's investigation of the Trump campaign last week, two sources told The Times last Tuesday.
DailyMail.com understands Nader spoke to the Trump administration on Middle East strategy, while being paid by the UAE as an adviser to its leadership.
He is a well-connected expert on the Middle East who is rumored to have links with intelligence agencies.
White House sources say that Nader became a friend of former chief Trump strategist Steve Bannon while he was still working for the president.
It is understood that Nader met several times with Bannon and at least once with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
A source close to MBZ said of Nader: 'The world doesn't hear a lot about George Nader, but he is a key player.
'This guy flies under the radar but he has the strongest ties with Trump and his team.
'He worked with Kushner and Steve Bannon, they are friends.
'But Nader goes to Abu Dhabi more than he goes to his [own] house. MBZ [Mohammed bin Zayed] runs his show. And he sends him on secret missions.
Friends: George Nader represented himself as a friend of both Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner
'He went to Abu Dhabi last month. He goes to Abu Dhabi a lot.
Nader's testimony to Mueller was reported by the
Wall Street Journal to have contradicted Prince's evidence to the House intel committee.
In particular, the Journal reported, Nader had said that the Emiratis did not introduce Prince and Dmitriev, and that they were under the impression that Prince was attending as a surrogate for the Trump transition - while the Russian was representing Putin.
The Washington Post reported last week that Mueller had gathered evidence that the meeting was an attempt to establish a back channel between the Kremlin and the Trump transition.
Nader's role in both the meeting and the wider Trump administration has come under growing scrutiny.
Earlier this month emails leaked to the New York Times showed Nader was fed a detailed memo of a private meeting in the Oval Office by a top Trump donor.
Elliott Broidy, who was a major financial backer to the president's electoral campaign, sent Nader the memo after meeting Trump in the White House, according to the report.
Broidy, whose private security company Circinus has contracts with the UAE worth hundreds of millions of dollars, lobbied Trump to back the UAE's military action in the Gulf during the meeting, according to the memo.
Despite humble beginnings, Nader has been close to leaders across the Gulf region for decades, as well as other US presidents.
He moved from Lebanon to the US with scant English aged just 15 and five years later while studying at Cleveland State University Nader founded a magazine called Middle East Insight in 1980.
Though his magazine was put together in his basement and had a small circulation of a few thousand, Nader had a surprising level of access to leaders in the US and the Middle East, even interviewing Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush while they were in office.
Mueller is investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow's interference in the 2016 election.
In February the special counsel indicted 13 Russians for operating a campaign of 'information warfare' against the US stretching back to 2014.
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