That NY times news story is more interesting by what it doesnt say - i.e. QR says "no comment", Boeing says to ask QR, and the fire brigade supervisor says they had no incidents in the last week?!
That is a straight up lie, plenty of people witnessed 4 fire engines attending the aircraft, it was on stand A14. And it's now under lock and key in the south maintenance hangar at Doha.
Regardless of the actual B787 issue, the bigger story is how much control does QR have over the news media, airport officials and the CAA in that country, that they can just bury a safety critical thing like this?