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Date: Thu Apr 16 2009 - 00:08:18 CDT

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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0415/1224244719670.html

By BERTRAND BENOIT in Berlin and ALEX BARKER in London
The Irish Times
April 15, 2009

THREE GERMAN journalists breached the tight security cordon around the
April 2nd G20 summit in London and managed to eavesdrop on the
three-hour discussion between heads of governments.

The revelation, a week after Bob Quick, the UK’s chief antiterrorism
police commander, was forced to resign for unwittingly disclosing
details of an imminent anti-terrorism raid, exposes another serious
security lapse in the UK.

Despite wearing the wrong identification badges, Marc Hujer, Wolfgang
Reuter and Christoph Schwennicke walked unchallenged into the G20
“listening room”, where government officials were listening in on talks
between government heads such as US president Barack Obama and his
French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, according to one person present
during the incident. “It’s not that they sneaked in, they just walked
in.”

The reporters went on to write a detailed account of the discussions,
which appeared in Spiegel, the weekly magazine, on April 6th, detailing
the debate that led to the drafting of the final summit communique and
repeatedly using verbatim quotes from the discussions.

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