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The Woman Who Nearly Stopped The War
wariscrime.com — Five years ago, Katharine Gun, a translator at GCHQ, learned something so outrageous that she sacrificed her career to tell the truth. Martin Bright on a brave deed that should not be forgotten.
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- ratcatcher2, on 10/09/2008, -1/+18A real hero in Bushland.
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A young woman who was a witness to something so outrageous, something so contrary to the principles of diplomacy and international law, that in revealing it she believed war could be averted. That woman was Katharine Gun, a 29-year-old Mandarin translator at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham.
On Friday 31 January 2003 she and many of her colleagues were forwarded a request from the US government for an intelligence “surge” at the United Nations (with hindsight, an interesting choice of words). In essence, the US was ordering the intensification of espionage at the UN headquarters in New York to help persuade the Security Council to authorise war in Iraq. The aim, according to the email, was to give the United States “the edge” in negotiations for a crucial resolution to give international authorisation for the war. Many believed that, without it, the war would be illegal. - wjappe, on 10/09/2008, -1/+16Brave woman, my hat's off to her!! I wish she could have stopped it but then again these crazies would be up to some other nasty crap. So much for our fine government leadership.
- sconnor, on 10/09/2008, -1/+13You never know were a patriot may be hiding...
- Observant1, on 10/09/2008, -1/+4very brave effort.
also: hey, its a pain in the butt to go to the site and be automatically be logged out of DIGG, had to log back in to dig or comment... so whats up with that?
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