Germany apologizes for bugging Afghan minister

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Deutsche Presse-Agentur

Germany apologizes for bugging Afghan minister

Apr 26, 2008, 14:46 GMT

Berlin/Kabul - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier phoned his Afghan counterpart Rangin Dadfar Spanta Saturday to apologize for the monitoring of another Afghan minister by the German foreign intelligence service, the BND.

Both sides had expressed the view that the affair - the monitoring of e-mail correspondence between Afghan Trade and Industry Minister Amin Farhang and a German journalist - would not impact on 'the good trusting relations' between Germany and Afghanistan, a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said in Berlin.

In Kabul, Foreign Ministry spokesman Sultan Ahmad Baheen said: 'The Afghan government is concerned about the reading of Mr Farhang's e-mails, and we hope that this action will not be repeated.'
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A week ago, it was made known that the BND had spied on correspondence between Farhang and Susanne Koelbl, a journalist working for Der Spiegel news magazine.

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[ohio2007]

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