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. |