I’m also sure that on the credit card application, the Mossad agents put their occupation down as “Zionist Jewish extremists on our way the UAE to kill innocent Palestinian liberation fighters” and MasterCard approved it anyway which would seem to be what the article is trying to say.

On a more serious note, the article fails to say that the US ambassador passed on the request by the UAE for the credit card transaction information and most probably got a reply, which meant both MasterCard and US government fully cooperated with the UAE.

Not exactly what the headline or text of the article trys to imply.
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