Britain spied on UN allies over war vote

[DoYouEverWonder]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1143572,00.html

Sunday February 8, 2004

Britain helped America to conduct a secret and potentially illegal spying operation at the United Nations in the run-up to the Iraq war, The Observer can reveal.

The operation, which targeted at least one permanent member of the UN Security Council, was almost certainly in breach of the Vienna conventions on diplomatic relations, which strictly outlaw espionage at the UN missions in New York.

Translators and analysts at the Government's top-secret surveillance center GCHQ were ordered to co-operate with an American espionage 'surge' on Security Council delegations after a request from the US National Security Agency at the end of January 2003. This was designed to help smooth the way for a second UN resolution authorising war in Iraq.

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But until today it was not known whether British spy chiefs had agreed to participate. The operation was ordered before deliberations over a second UN resolution and targeted the so-called 'swing nations' on the Security Council - Chile, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Angola, Guinea and Pakistan - whose votes were needed to proceed to war.

The first evidence has also emerged that China, a perma nentmember of the Security Council, was a likely target of the operation.


It will take decades to repair the credibility of the US and Britian, that Bu$h, Tony and their minions flushed down the toilet in order to justify their illegal invasion of Iraq. Thanks guys.

[bobthedrummer]

1. Katharine Gun {the brave whistleblower} links

She's facing two years in prison for telling the truth.
Bush lied, people died.

http://www.accuracy.org/gun

[atre]

2. My God... how is it possible that no U.S. media has reported on this?

What kind of society do we live in where the media filters out evidence of the criminal conduct of the sitting government?