In news from Britain, a former member of Tony Blair’s cabinet, Clare Short, has accused British intelligence agents of spying on U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan in the run up to the Iraq war. She told the BBC she had read transcripts of private conversations of Annan. Last year the Observer of London reported that the US and Britain carried out a dirty tricks campaign by spying on officials from Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Bulgaria, Guinea and Pakistan in the lead up to the UN vote on Iraq. Yesterday the source of the Observer article, government whistleblower Katherine Gun was cleared of violating the country’s Official Secrets Act after the government presented no evidence against her.