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| Blix suspects U.S. spied on him |
| 2004-02-28 |
| LONDON (Roooters) - Former chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix says he suspected the United States bugged his office and home in the run-up to the Iraq war, but has no hard evidence. Describing such behaviour as "disgusting", Blix told the Guardian in an interview: "It feels like an intrusion into your integrity in a situation when you are actually on the same side." Blixie apparently is easily offended. How’d he ever make it as a diplomat? Blix said his suspicions were raised when he had trouble with a telephone connection at home. "It might have been something trivial or it might have been something installed somewhere, I don’t know," he said. You’re only supposed to be a technical expert in arms control, Blixie, don’t you think you could unscrew the ends of the telephone ear piece and take a look? The Swede said he asked U.N. counter-surveillance teams to check his office and home for listening devices. "If you had something sensitive to talk about you would go out into the restaurant or out into the streets," said Blix. "I saw a Bergman movie about this once; that’s how I got the idea." He said U.S. State Department envoy John Wolf visited him two weeks before the Iraq war with pictures of an Iraqi drone and a cluster bomb that the former inspector believed could have been secured only from within the U.N. weapons office. "He should not have had them. I asked him how he got them and he would not tell me," Blix said. "Umm, ... pixies gave it to us." "It could have been some staff belonging to us that handed them to the Americans... It could also be that they managed to break into the secure fax and got it that way," he said. In which case it wasn’t so secure. Gads, no wonder the Iraqis could lead this man by the nose. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #20 TU, I haven't figured out yet how to delete a comment, else the "fund raicing" comment prolly would have gotten the deep-six. Fred's system is very powerful; I just haven't gotten to the end of the manual yet. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-2-28 10:30:45 PM |
| #19 I heard the CIA has a video tape of Hans Blix and Paris Hilton and they're gonna show it on the internet... Aaauuuugggghhh, MY EYES, MY EYES .... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-2-28 10:29:37 PM |
| #18 Oh-oh. Fred leaves us alone and the Nigerian email scams start showing up. He's gonna be pissed. Can't I leave you kids alone for one minute! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-2-28 8:03:18 PM |
| #17 yawn...you can tell it was written by a native english speaker attempting to sound foreign..with a few random mispellings for effect. Poor quality fake. I rate it 1.5 on a scale of 10. Back to the original point - I still think the fact that this Blix accusation in flooding the fax machines shows we can soon expect all the usual suspects to chime in with similar complaints of the Bush Admin spying. Oh..sure, you all scroll on past me now... but you'll see ....the Kerry/Clinton crowd has their head so stuck in the 60's that it's not surprising they want to relive their Nixon glory days. |
| Posted by: B 2004-2-28 5:44:51 PM |
| #16 Hokay, I just paypalled your OPRGANISATION some Sammy-dollars AMMOUNT from Iraq. Pees be upon your head |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-2-28 1:36:53 PM |
| #15 Sounds like a Deanie baby from Biafra. Hit the bat Mon! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-2-28 1:30:39 PM |
| #14 Wow...we've just been spammed by a nigerian scam...Tell ya what...how bout ya send us the ooooooooil instead? |
| Posted by: Valentine 2004-2-28 1:22:41 PM |
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| Posted by: Anonymous 2004-2-28 1:12:14 PM |
| #12 TALKING POINTS ALERT! Ah...this fits into my latest theory. You heard it first from me, my friends. MARK MY WORDS - you will hear more and more accusations along the lines of this one - getting louder and more shrill - until the election is over. They had a guy on Fox about a week ago that fired the first broadside. Said the Bush Administration had asked the British Spy services to spy on the Democrats. Guy said it was, the Biggest Most Disturbing Story he ever had to tell. March maddness has begun. This is all part of a greater PR push by the Dems to paint the current Bush administration as Nixon. I'm rarely wrong on these predictions and I can see this one as clear as day! Remember I said this. I plan to say, "I told you so". |
| Posted by: B 2004-2-28 12:08:17 PM |
| #11 A large producer of technical countersurveillance teams is the US Army. Where do you think many of the UN teams come from? Believe me, I know where their loyalties lie. |
| Posted by: whitecollar redneck 2004-2-28 10:53:23 AM |
| #10 If you had something sensitive to talk about you would go out into the restaurant One of our favorite places was a delightful pizzaria run by a couple of Algerian immigrants in Paris. |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-2-28 9:44:55 AM |
| #9 "I asked him how he got them and he would not tell me," Blix said. Hey Hans you idiot, it's not HOW but WHY. You know. Now you know we know. Asking yourself why we let you know we know? Chief Inspector Hans Clousseau. |
| Posted by: john 2004-2-28 8:08:57 AM |
| #8 It's about time the Evil Media© gets over it. We bug everybody......... dorf |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2004-2-28 7:47:10 AM |
| #7 Oookay: "The Swede said he asked U.N. counter-surveillance teams to check his office and home for listening devices. " And why oh why wont you tell us the results of that particular sweep? Mr(ignorance is)Blix. |
| Posted by: Evert Visser 2004-2-28 4:01:39 AM |
| #6 I heard the CIA has a video tape of Hans Blix and Paris Hilton and they're gonna show it on the internet... |
| Posted by: JDB 2004-2-28 3:45:05 AM |
| #5 I suspect Algerians bugged my toaster oven, but I have no proof. Can I get a press conference? |
| Posted by: Dar 2004-2-28 2:29:59 AM |
| #4 It's good to know, if true, our spooks were busy. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-2-28 2:10:04 AM |
| #3 I knew he was gonna say that... |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-2-28 1:43:46 AM |
| #2 Hansie was so screamingly incompetent that I doubt we got any useful intel from the (alleged) bugs. (Except to document what a maroon he actually was, of course.) |
| Posted by: PBMcL 2004-2-28 1:35:52 AM |
| #1 Blix should write a book. If you weren't bugged I'd be hurt, down hearted! |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-2-28 1:23:36 AM |