http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0415/1224244719670.html By BERTRAND BENOIT in Berlin and ALEX BARKER in London The Irish Times April 15, 2009 THREE GERMAN journalists breached the tight security cordon around the April 2nd G20 summit in London and managed to eavesdrop on the three-hour discussion between heads of governments. The revelation, a week after Bob Quick, the UK’s chief antiterrorism police commander, was forced to resign for unwittingly disclosing details of an imminent anti-terrorism raid, exposes another serious security lapse in the UK. Despite wearing the wrong identification badges, Marc Hujer, Wolfgang Reuter and Christoph Schwennicke walked unchallenged into the G20 “listening room”, where government officials were listening in on talks between government heads such as US president Barack Obama and his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, according to one person present during the incident. “It’s not that they sneaked in, they just walked in.” The reporters went on to write a detailed account of the discussions, which appeared in Spiegel, the weekly magazine, on April 6th, detailing the debate that led to the drafting of the final summit communique and repeatedly using verbatim quotes from the discussions. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/Received on Wed Apr 15 2009 - 22:08:18 PDT
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