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Facebook posts shared thousands of times claim that Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed told the BBC in 2014 that his great-grandson will be “back on a camel”, implying that the wealthy emirate's development is diminishing. The claim is false: Sheikh Mohammed did not make such comments in the interview, where he said he aimed for Dubai to become “number one”. A similar quote has previously been attributed to Saudi politician Ahmed Zaki Yamani and the sheikh’s father Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum.
The claim was posted to Facebook by a Fiji-based user here. The post has been shared more than 6,000 times.