Mark Somos - A lawyer offering SEO services for MBZ

Mark Somos- A lawyer offering propaganda activities for the UAE MBZ. There is a report written by Somos on 5 years of smear campaigns in Sweden, France and Germany, and delivered to UAE.

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Mark Somos: A lawyer offering SEO services for MBZ

When, two years ago, we began to analyze the "chain of command" behind the dirtiest political disinformation campaigns on the planet, we limited ourselves to describing those who, taking up the pen, wrote and put their reputation at the service of obvious lies. After having described many of them, especially in Italy and France, we are now moving on to analyze the figures of the principals: serious and severe professionals, paid as political consultants, who organize, train and pay for the media killing campaigns against this or that party, this or that nation.

Well, attorney Mark Somos is one of them – one of the most prominent. Don't you know his name? It's normal, he does everything to prevent this information from circulating freely. Because Mark Somos is a judge in major international arbitrations, he is a university professor living in Germany, and he is a Hungarian lawyer secretly working for the UAE, as confirmed by the International Arbitration File, which confirms the link in at least three proceedings international[1], one of which concerns the long-standing controversy on the ban on Qatari civil aviation to fly over the other countries of the Persian Gulf[2].

During that legal battle, Somos published an article denouncing what Somos considers a snub to the Saudis and a bias of the International Court of Justice in favor of Iran and its allies[3]. In the autumn of 2022, Somos filed a complaint against the Qatari royal family, accusing them of hacking into the computers of French senator Nathalie Goulet (close ties to the Emirates and to the head of government Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan[4]) and organizations criticisms and on the World Cup dispute in their country[5].

Obviously, lawyer Somos received a fair fee for these activities, but it is not the only way he earns a living. For example, he is the managing director and co-owner of the London-based lobbying and strategic diplomatic consultancy Cornerstone Global Associates[6], whose motto is "tackling the intractable", a metaphor for the rugby stance that Cornerstone applies towards opponents of the own customers[7]. Other Cornerstone Global shareholders include Zionist journalist Lucian Hudson, conservative politician Ghanem Nuseibeh[8], economist Jordan Bruce Macleod, and ecologist Ms. Rawaa Al Saadi Milner[9].

Ghanem Nuseibeh, who is the founder and chairman of Cornerstone Global, is closely associated with Hashem al Qaisseh (he who countersigns invoices sent by Nuseibeh to get payment for Cornerstone's business[10] and adviser to the head of UAE intelligence Tahnoon Bin Zayed[11]) and other high-profile figures in the UAE[12], and is a friend and adviser to the aforementioned French Senator Nathalie Goulet[13]. Both Somos and Ghanem work closely with Matar Humaid al Neyadi – a key figure in the monarchy, intelligence officer and undersecretary of the Abu Dhabi energy ministry in drafting disinformation projects.[14]

Dubai, 22 March 2017, conference of the FT Family Business Summit: from left, the moderator of the Financial Times, the director of EY Emirates Ismael Hajjar, Jonathan Ivinson and Adil Al Zarooni[15]

The informal organization created by Somos costs a lot of money, also because it often turns out to be inefficient and managed by charlatans, who get caught red-handed in lying in public[16]. Some of the money comes directly from the royal family, but the bulk is raised by Somos partners who are linked to Sunni and Wahhabi business, scattered around the world. Some of the tickets for the flights are paid for directly by Matar Al Neyadi[17].

Among the closest collaborators, in the work of soliciting donations, there are also important lawyers, such as Jonathan Ivinson[18] (head of the Geneva office of the law firm Akin Gump Strauss & Hauer[19]), with a past as a consultant of the troika of the European Union that dismembered Greece[20], but above all many businesses open in Dubai, first of all with ADGM Abu Dhabi Global Market, which employs the English lawyer in its investments in Europe - and above all in Switzerland[ 21]. Which is why he is also hired by other famous law firms, such as King & Spalding, to manage the UAE clientele[22].

The two are linked to the entrepreneur Adil Al Zarooni, whose commercial, industrial and real estate group is among the most powerful in the Middle East[23]; to Mohamed Fehmi Hannachi, director of the ABC International Bank (the foreign trade bank of the Arab Bank Corporation group of the Saudi royal family)[24]; the French senator Nathalie Goulet[25] and, finally, the British deputy Ian Paisley Junior, son of one of the followers of the politicalreligious clash in Northern Ireland[26].

Paisley, convicted of several unlawful acts committed during his parliamentary mandate[27], leads many important disinformation campaigns against Qatar[28], motivating them with his Presbyterian religious sentiment[29]. His most famous campaign, conducted together with Mark Somos, Ghanem Nuseibeh and Nathalie Goulet, is against Iran, accused (unjustly) of attacking Arab ships crossing the Persian Gulf [30]. To make more money, Paisley runs a firm that administers offshore companies for clients seeking bank secrecy[31]. After the scandal of the fake passports, Paisley has intensified his trips to the Emirates to collect as much documentation as possible and to acquire new and more modern spyware systems to use against Qatar[32].

But the propaganda activity of the Emirates runs much deeper, as evidenced by the fact that Matar Al Neyadi, an intelligence officer, is the leading theorist of the Nexus between water and energy[33] – an issue that conquers peoples of lands devastated by droughts, such as those in Africa and the Middle East: for decades the Emirates and Saudi Arabia have covered most of their fresh water needs with thermal desalination (they extract water in the form of steam), but this system is obsolete and costs too much energy, so today so-called "reverse osmosis" systems are preferred, which could solve the problems of countries affected by drought and are the exclusive property of the Abu Dhabi monarchy[34].

From left: Ghanem Nuseibeh, Mark Somos, Jonathan Ivinson

Somos, in direct liaison with Neyadi, spearheaded the promotion of the Nexus[35] through diplomacy and lobbying efforts[36]. Added to this is a work of contrast against the technologies used by Turks and Iranians[37]. A contrast that extends from the care of the body to that of the soul: for some years now, the number one enemy of Mark Somos and his collaborators has been the IRW Islamic Relief Worldwide, a gigantic humanitarian organization, which has saved hundreds of millions of lives all over the world, and who professes a reading of the Koran that is open to equality between men and women, to the acceptance of homosexuality, and even to cooperation with the churches of other religions (there are already various projects underway together with the Lutherans )[38].

As if this were not enough, according to the Wahhabis and the Zionists, IRW secretly collaborates and finances Hamas in Palestine[39]. The campaign against this pan-Arab NGO, coordinated by Mark Somos and conducted, among others, by Mario Brero's Swiss disinformation agency, accuses IRW: of training the Rohingia fleeing Indochina in acts of terrorism[40], of support plans for the conquest of Iran in Central Asia, anti-Semitic dreams of destroying Israel[41], preparing military attacks against the West[42], infiltrating the Islamic Brotherhood[43] into the American economy[44] – in short, to be a terrorist organization[45]. IRW is targeted by the Somos European media network, for example by using the Spanish site Okdiario, which is an online newspaper of the Spanish farright[46], famous for its campaigns of disinformation and media violence against Podemos and, more in general, the Spanish left[47]. Alongside the Spanish megaphone, SRF and The Times appear to be used as the main media vectors of Somos campaigns[48].

The campaign has a central objective of targeting the presence of Qatar in Switzerland, accusing Doha of spying on officials of international agencies[49] and the Swiss government of militarily supporting a despotic, imperialist and militarist regime such as Qatar[50]. One of the most exposed politicians in this campaign, National Front MEP MEP and French politician Nicolas Bay[51], exaggerated to the point of obtaining a Strasbourg decision to suspend his parliamentary immunity[52].

Somos is involved in creating social media buzz against rivals[53]. In these buzz the IRW is linked to the jihadist past in Bosnia and, with the support of the "Times", they obtained the resignation of some members of the Muslim association, accused of being openly anti-Semitic by the British Charity Commission[54]. Not happy with this result, Mark Somos unleashed a campaign against the IRW (and against the Swiss government, accused of protecting and financially supporting the Islamic Brotherhood) in the pages of the Zurich newspaper Tagesanzeiger[55].

In this campaign, Somos uses the services of Mario Brero, of his ALP Services, and those of the French journalist and consultant Roland Jacquard – an extremely discredited person[56] and whose membership in organizations financed by the United Arab Emirates has been known for some time United[57]. Jacquard has been working for years under the orders of UAE intelligence officer Matar Al Neyadi in the media campaigns against Qatar and Turkey[58]. Jacquard complains that Qatar and Switzerland fund the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF), a non-profit foundation based in Geneva[59], but at the same time warns Ankara that Ariane Bonzon is writing a book against the government Turkey[60] and organizes a meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood of Belgium, with the aim of provoking a reaction against Qatar[61].

July 2, 2018: Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan (third from left) extends his condolences to Matar El Nayadi (back from left) who has just lost his mother[62]

Many of the characters mentioned here have handed over information on possible targets of a future disinformation campaign, such as the Imam of Luxembourg, Mustapha Turki – Somos wants to prove that he is linked to terrorism[63]. In Norway, Somos has focused on alleged links between the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas – he is preparing a campaign associating the Brotherhood with anti-Semitism among Norwegian youth [64]. Among other things, Somos wrote a report on libertarian organizations like Millî Görüş or opposition intellectuals like Hande Taner, and the Islamic Brotherhood[65].

According to some sources, there is a report written by Somos on five years of smear campaigns in Sweden, France and Germany, and delivered to members of the Emirati government[66]. The report would also describe campaigns aimed at demonstrating links between Hamas and public figures in France, Belgium, Norway and Luxembourg[67]. A vocation of a whole life, spent destroying all attempts to secularize Islam - observed under a very special magnifying glass: Somos does not choose between theocracy and any other form of government (after all, Iran and Qatar are also monarchies with a profoundly religious background), but between governments which, willingly or unwillingly, allow a secularization of society, and those which, as it was in Europe before the schism, tended towards a religiosity of science, of society, of all[68].

According to Somos, as he himself describes in his degree thesis, the West is weak because it has accepted that science and philosophical doubt have taken over faith. Islam remains the great hope, after the profound degeneration of Britain's mercantilist Christianity and Judaism, but only as long as it remains absolutist and bound by the infallibility of an enlightened monarchy[69]. A dangerous way of thinking, whose right to exist in a secular and democratic society is questionable.

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[1] https://jusmundi.com/en/p/mark-somos

[2] https://www.icj-cij.org/public/files/case-related/173/173-20191205-ORA-01-00-BI.pdf, page 8

[3] https://intr2dok.vifa-recht.de/receive/mir_mods_00004292

[4] L’AMI PARISIEN DES CHEIKHS DU GOLFE PERSIQUE – IBI World France

[5] https://www.archysport.com/2022/11/world-cup-qatar-allegedly-spied-on-celebrities-critical-of-thecompetition/ ; https://time.news/personalities-critical-of-qatar-were-spied-on/ ;

https://www.archysport.com/2022/11/qatar-has-hacked-and-spied-on-several-personalities-according-to-thesunday-times-liberation/

[6] 2020.01.18 Cornerstone Global Associates Ltd. London

[7] http://www.cstoneglobal.com/about

[8] https://allisrael.com/writer/ghanem-nuseibeh

[9] 2020.01.18 Cornerstone Global Associates Ltd. London

[10] https://seygan-alpay.medium.com/ghanem-nuseibeh-le-roi-du-halal-tricolore-couv%C3%A9-par-unes%C3%A9natrice-fran%C3%A7aise-844c8ac7fa4d