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Blair's headache. This UK/US spied on UN story is not going away. Now former UK British cabinet minister Clare Short reveals that the UK spied even on Kofi Annan, and that she read long transcripts of Annan's telephone conversations:
“I know, I have seen transcripts of Kofi Annan’s conversations," Short told the BBC. "In fact I have had conversations with Kofi in the run-up to war thinking ’Oh dear, there will be a transcript of this and people will see what he and I are saying.”’
Asked explicitly whether British spies had been instructed to carry out operations within the United Nations on people such as Kofi Annan, she said: “Yes, absolutely.”
Meanwhile in the wake of the collapse of the UK's prosecution of former UK intelligence service translator Katharine Gun yesterday, the very legality of the war in Iraq is again becoming an issue in London.