Muhammad bin Zayid, the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates reportedly asked the United States to bomb the offices of Al Jazeera, during war in Afghanistan, when he was the Minister of Defense.
According to the Wikileaks, Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed, referred as'MBZ' in the documents urged a US diplomat Richard Hass to control the media coverage of Iraq'si invasion in 2003.
During the conversation, MBZ recalled a conversation of his father Sheikh Zayed and the Emir of Qatar, Hamad Al-Thani, in which Hamad had complained that MBZ asked the US to bomb Al-Jazeera. The leaks also revealed that after his father's death in 2004 MBZ too attempted to put pressure on the Qataris to ruin Al Jazeera.
