UK 'spied' on G20 delegates in 2009

Documents leaked by US former spy Edward Snowden appear to show that Britain spied on foreign delegates at the 2009 London G20 meetings, a newspaper reported yesterday.
Among the officials targeted were delegates from Nato ally Turkey and from fellow Commonwealth state South Africa, said British newspaper The Guardian.
Turkey yesterday reacted strongly and slammed the British move as unacceptable.
Britain used "ground-breaking intelligence capabilities" to monitor communications between officials at the two meetings in April and September of 2009, the daily reported.
The revelations are likely to be an embarrassment to Britain, which is hosting the two-day G8 summit in Northern Ireland from  -- the biggest gathering of international leaders since the G20 four years ago.
British Prime Minister David Cameron refused to comment on the report.
The Guardian cited documents it had seen concerning the work of Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), its electronic eavesdropping agency.
According to the files, British spies tricked delegates into using specially prepared Internet cafes. Those cafes allowed the spies to intercept communications and monitor email messages and phone calls through delegates' BlackBerry devices.
The Guardian also said that GCHQ received reports from a US National Security Agency (NSA) attempt to listen in as Dmitry Medvedev, then the Russian president, made a call via satellite to Moscow.