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Posted by St_Andrew on Feb-26-2004 22:16:

UK spied on Kofi Annan

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq...1156694,00.html

hehehe, if this is true the british inteligence / blair will have some more problems...

Posted by Trancer-X on Feb-27-2004 00:45:

Espionage is everywhere - political, industrial, military, etc.

Counter-espionage (counterintelligence) is BIG BUSINESS these days.

Posted by Yoepus on Feb-27-2004 06:13:

couldn't they have at least tried to assasinate him as with Saddam while they were at it? Come on.. these Brits are no fun

Posted by priveye03 on Feb-27-2004 12:39:

Brits are to prude to assasinate anyone. They would rather invite them to tea then dual them.

Posted by Flotser on Feb-27-2004 14:37:

He is an idiot anyway.

by the way, anyone heared any news about the Gas Chambers in N.Korea?...

Posted by occrider on Feb-27-2004 14:42:

quote:
Originally posted by Flotser
He is an idiot anyway.

by the way, anyone heared any news about the Gas Chambers in N.Korea?...

Yes. The UN's on it. Don't worry about it.

Posted by Flotser on Feb-27-2004 14:50:

quote:
Originally posted by occrider
Yes. The UN's on it. Don't worry about it.

This world is realy fucked up.

Posted by Yoepus on Feb-27-2004 22:21:

and it took you, an Israeli living with daily Arab stupidity, how long to realize this exaclty?

Posted by smokeape on Feb-28-2004 03:51:

quote:
Originally posted by Yoepus
couldn't they have at least tried to assasinate him as with Saddam while they were at it? Come on.. these Brits are no fun

At least they figured out they didn't have to slip Annan any stupid pills....

[[[smoke]]]

Posted by Flotser on Feb-28-2004 11:05:

quote:
Originally posted by Yoepus
and it took you, an Israeli living with daily Arab stupidity, how long to realize this exaclty?

I think i got that "very-slow-comprehension" contagious disease from my goverment.

Posted by George Smiley on Feb-28-2004 14:43:

It was us that did it, but only at the request of America. We use each other to spy in our own countries to get round laws (ie. it may be illegal for Mi5 to tap anyone's phone they feel like in the UK, but there is no law stopping America doing it!!!)

quote:
couldn't they have at least tried to assasinate him as with Saddam while they were at it? Come on.. these Brits are no fun

Well we tried to get Gaddaffi, anyway, I dont think political assasinations are that ethical or useful. It seems a common cultural thing with Americans to view individuals as the problem (like in films). They think they are fighting Saddam or bin Laden but they aren't! They are fighting groups who happen to have them as leaders...take em out and someone just steps into their place

Posted by arctic on Feb-28-2004 14:47:

quote:
Originally posted by Flotser
He is an idiot anyway.

I wouldn't go that far. I think we can all agree that the UN can be extremely ineffective at times, and that does need to be addressed, but Annan is far from an idiot.

Posted by George Smiley on Feb-28-2004 15:06:

quote:
I think we can all agree that the UN can be extremely ineffective at times

Hmmmm, wonder why the UN is so ineffective?! Wonder who is in breach of the most UN resolutions and who was it who has vetoed the most UN resolutions?!...

Posted by Yoepus on Feb-28-2004 21:22:

quote:
Originally posted by George Smiley
They are fighting groups who happen to have them as leaders...take em out and someone just steps into their place

Ahh so you don't believe in leaders huh?

think the UK would still look the same if Churchill hadn't risen to power during WWII?

Posted by George Smiley on Feb-29-2004 11:47:

quote:
Originally posted by Yoepus
Ahh so you don't believe in leaders huh?

think the UK would still look the same if Churchill hadn't risen to power during WWII?

Exactly my point! Yes of course the UK would have looked the same cos Churchill didn't fight WW2 did he? The British did and we would have done exactly the same with the same amount of passion who ever was in charge. Dunkirk spirit my son!!!