BBC NEWS Last Updated: Tuesday, 5 October, 2004, 12:48 GMT 13:48 UK
US 'bugged' France's Chirac calls
A book published in France says the US regularly monitored French President Jacques Chirac's phone calls. The book, which charts the breakdown of the leaders' relationship in the run-up to the Iraq war, says several sources reported the surveillance. The US told a senior French military official the French-US relationship at a personal level was "irreparable". The book, Chirac contre Bush - l'autre guerre (Chirac versus Bush - the other war), comes out on Wednesday.
The two leaders were at loggerheads over the war in Iraq, which culminated with Mr Chirac pledging to use his UN veto against the war.
"The relationship between your president and ours is irreparable on the personal level. You have to understand that President Bush knows exactly what President Chirac thinks of him," a US official is reported as telling a senior French military official in the book by journalists Henri Vernet and Thomas Cantaloube.
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Riverside CA
PS - maybe this is why bush slammed the French so badly yesterday cuz he most certainly knows about the book.
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