Britain and US Shared Transcripts After Bugging Blix's Mobile Phone'

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www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0228-01.htm

Published on Saturday, February 28, 2004 by the lndependent/UK

'Britain and US Shared Transcripts After Bugging Blix's Mobile Phone'
by Kim Sengupta and Kathy Marks in Sydney

 The controversy over alleged British and American "dirty tricks" at the United Nations deepened yesterday with claims that two chiefs of Iraq arms inspection missions had been victims of spying.

Hans Blix and Richard Butler were said to have been subjected to routine bugging while they led teams searching for Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction.

In an interview published today, Dr Blix said he suspected his UN office and New York home had been bugged by the United States in the run-up to war. He said bugging was to be expected between enemies, but "here it is between people who co-operate and it is an unpleasant feeling".

The new charges came within 24 hours of the former cabinet minister Clare Short stating British intelligence had taped the telephone calls of the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan.
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1. No kidding! "Bush and Blair, Parters in International Crime"

:argh:

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2. What about our media

anyone see this reported? I haven't.

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3. I wouldn't be surprised to find

it buried somewhere, but I don't think breaking international law is deemed news these days (it happens so often)
:shrug:

[leftchick]

4. that is the thing.... BFEE did it NO Bigee...

Now if Bill Clinton had.... :eyes:

[G_j]

5. Blix, a master of understatement

"between people who co-operate (and) it is an unpleasant feeling"