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UNSCOM - the weapons inpectors -
After Gulf War 1, the weapons inpectors searched for weapons and destroyed many. They were thrown out for spying in 1998. Weapons inspections resumed in 2002 until the inspectors evacuated ahead of the invasion.

	United Nations	"The United States for nearly three years intermittently monitored the coded radio communications of President Saddam Hussein's innermost security forces using equipment secretly installed in Iraq by U.N. weapons inspectors, according to U.S. and U.N. officials." Thomas W. Lippman and Barton Gellman, Washington Post, January 8, 1999
	Richard Butler	" [Richard] Butler has categorically denied that UNSCOM was used for spying on behalf of the United States." Thomas W. Lippman and Barton Gellman, Washington Post, January 8, 1999

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