Jack Bristow Strikes Again
So as revealed in the famous memo, the US ham-fistedly bugged the UN Security Council members during the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq. What’s now emerged is that the bugging enabled the US to sabotage the brokering of a last-minute compromise that might have forestalled an invasion of Iraq.
The former Mexican ambassador to the UN, Adolfo Aguilar Zinser, told The Observer that US officials intervened last March, just days before the war against Saddam was launched, to halt secret negotiations for a compromise resolution to give weapons inspectors more time to complete their work. Aguilar Zinser claimed that the intervention could only have come as a result of surveillance of a closed diplomatic meeting where the compromise was being hammered out. He said it was clear the Americans knew about the confidential discussions in advance. ‘When they [the US] found out, they said, “You should know that we don’t like the idea and we don’t like you to promote it.”
Earlier here.