And again:

"For its part Iraq claimed Unscom was full of spies." (Simon Jeffery, 'What
are weapons inspection teams?', The Guardian, September 18, 2002)

What is so remarkable about these references to "Iraqi allegations",
"complaints" and "claims", is that they directly contradict The Guardian's
own reporting of events just three years earlier. Consider this March 1999
report by Julian Borger:

"American espionage in Iraq, under cover of United Nations weapons
inspections, went far beyond the search for banned arms and was carried out
without the knowledge of the UN leadership, it was reported yesterday. An
investigation by the Washington Post found that CIA engineers working as UN
technicians installed antennae in equipment belonging to the UN Special
Commission (Unscom) to eavesdrop on the Iraqi military." (Julian Borger, 'UN
"kept in dark" about US spying in Iraq', The Guardian, March 3, 1999)

Note that this was not an "Iraqi allegation", it was an allegation made by a
leading national US newspaper, the Washington Post. Earlier that year, The
Guardian had reported another non-Iraqi source: