Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: ONU: gli USA presi col sorcio in bocca

The Observer newspaper (London) reported yesterday that the United
States
is conducting a secret surveillance campaign against UN Security
Council
delegations in New York as part of its battle to win votes in favor of
war
against Iraq. Details of the operation, which involves the
interception of
the telephone calls and emails of UN delegates, were revealed in a
National Security Agency memo leaked to the newspaper.
For more, see The Daily Outrage:
http://www.thenation.com/outrage
To read the Observer story:
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905936,00.html
To read the confidential NSA memo:
http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905954,00.html
Now, more than ever, it's critical to show support for those countries
trying to resist US bullying, bribing and now, wiretapping. There are
a
number of concrete gestures you can take that may really help these
nations stiffen their opposition to the proposed US/UK/Spanish UN war
resolution.
For urgent antiwar activist ideas:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030317&s=action
If you're part of a civic, business, non-profit or community group,
try to
set up meetings this week with the UN missions, embassies and
consulates
of these non-permanent members of the UN Security Council: Chile,
Mexico,
Pakistan, Guinea, Cameroon and Angola. Check out our list of offices
coast
to coast. There may be one much closer than you'd think.
If you can't get a quick meeting scheduled, send flowers, cards or
other
tokens of appreciation to these nation's reps imploring them to hold
firm
and continue resisting the US' coercive tactics. Remind them that the
world is on their side as are many Americans as well. Alert the press
of
your activities.
Email each member of the UN Security Council urging them to reject the
US/UK/Spanish resolution.
For full contact info for consulates and missions and security council
members: 
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030317&s=action
You can also email this resource info around as a formatted document
to
your own list or anyone you know who might be interested.
See "Coalition of the Coerced," a new report issued by the Institute
for
Policy Studies, for help with drafting letters:
http://www.ips-dc.org/coalition.htm
And see ActNow, The Nation's activist weblog, for info on upcoming
antiwar
initiatives, including the March 5 students strike for peace and the
March
8 women-led antiwar rally in Washington:
http://www.thenation.com/actnow
Time appears short, but after a weekend of setbacks, the US appears
increasingly isolated in its efforts to rally international diplomatic
and
military support for war in Iraq. The Bush Administration seems poised
to
thwart world opinion and go at it alone, but the more we can do to
oppose
unilateral war, the harder it'll be for them to proceed. Thanks for
your
support.
Best Regards,
Peter Rothberg, The Nation
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States
*LOL*
Sono quelli che hanno riscritto la mitica nota che hanno ricevuto VIA
MAIL (*ROTFL*) aggiungendo in fondo alla nuova trascrizione il testo
----
Footnote: This email was originally transcribed with English
spellings standardised for a British audience. Following enquiries
about this, we have reverted to the original US-spelling as in the
document leaked to The Observer. 
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*LOL*
Adesso i poveri inglesi non capiscono un testo scritto in inglese
americano per cui avrebbero bisogno della traduzione :P :))
*LOL*
-Stefano

 *LOL*
No, e' che il testo presentato come originale della NSA presentava molti
termini con spelling britannico, cosa che assieme ad altri elementi, fa
dubitare molto dell'autenticita' del testo stesso.
Allora che hanno fatto le volpi dell'Observer/Guardian? Hanno detto ''
e' stato il maledetto correttore ortografico imperialista del nsotro MS
Word che ha corretto lo spelling, per cui lo rimettiamo com'era in
origine''. La vicende fa comprendere perche' il Guardian sia anti caccia
alla volpe.
Ciao
Ale
--
*La sconfitta reclama ad alta voce perche' esige spiegazioni; mentre la
vittoria, come la carita', nasconde un gran numero di peccati*
Alfred T. Mahan

Ale
That leaked NSA memo: further developments
As you may recall, in a dispatch last week I pointed out a piece in
the British Observer on a leaked National Security Agency document
calling for heightened surveillance of and interception of phone calls
and emails from UN delegations crucial to the upcoming Security
Council vote. (I also enclosed the leaked document and speculated --
based on the logic of the situation, not any insider information --
that it was leaked by someone in British intelligence.) The leaked
document was completely ignored by the media here in the United States
for two days, until Ari Fleischer at a news conference was asked about
it and provided a non-denial. Then it was written about sparsely at
best, not at all in the New York Times, and generally with a ho-hum,
no-big-deal, didn't-even-bother-the-delegations-concerned tone in
places like the Washington Post and LA Times. Elsewhere, including in
letters to me, it was denounced as a forgery. 
Now, the Observer reports, an arrest has been made in England. (So
much for the forgery theory. At least the British government believes
the document real enough to pursue a possible leakee.) Here then is
part of an email just sent out by Observer correspondent Ed Vulliamy
on the subject: 
"This is to inform you that there has just been an arrest at the
British Government's Communications Headquarters (GCHQ - equivalent of
the NSA) in connection with the leak of the memo. If charges are made,
they will be serious - Britain is far more severe in these matters
than the US (so far!). They could result in a major trial and a long
prison sentence for the alleged mole. It it is also a criminal offence
to receive such information in Britain (some of you may recall the
'ABC' trial of the 1970s), and this may also become an issue of press
freedom. The authors of the piece will defy any attempt by the
government to discuss our sources."

the document real enough to pursue a possible leakee.)
*ROTFL*
Se anche fosse un falso questo non implica che non ci siano reati (ad
esempio quello di aver impersonato un'altra persona e di aver diffamato
con tale documento quella persona) che il governo inglese debba
perseguire :)
-Stefano

 That leaked NSA memo: further developments
Si, l'avevo letto stamani. 
D'altra parte quello che volevo far notare era il fatto, IMHO comico,
che facendo casino con le versioni di Word l'Observer avesse
auto-screditato il proprio scoop.
Ciao
Ale