British intelligence hacked Belgacom then sabotaged investigation
The real mystery is this:<p>&gt; However the Belgian government and security services were kept in the dark, something which the federal prosecutor’s report described as “exceptional between EU states, and something that could lead to a diplomatic incident.”<p>If this operation was ONLY meant to target a subsidiary working mostly inside the middle-east with legitimate terrorist ties, I&#x27;d imagine they would have included the Belgians.<p>One could speculate that GCHQ decided to go it alone, just to see &quot;what else we can get&quot; in terms of potentially spying within Belgian&#x2F;on Belgian&#x27;s citizens.<p>It isn&#x27;t even the first time GCHQ has been caught spying on other European countries[0]. But I guess the City of London needs to get their financial &quot;tips&quot; somehow...<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spiegel.de&#x2F;international&#x2F;germany&#x2F;gchq-and-nsa-targeted-private-german-companies-a-961444.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.spiegel.de&#x2F;international&#x2F;germany&#x2F;gchq-and-nsa-tar...</a>