英国窃听门升级传阵亡军眷也遭窃听_BEC初级作文

英国窃听门升级传阵亡军眷也遭窃听

默多克集团旗下的《世界资讯报》电话窃听事件升级。据称，在伊拉克和巴基斯坦战争中阵亡士兵家属可能是窃听目标。这一内幕曝光后引起了广泛关注，阵亡家属认为窃听行为令人愤慨，无法接受。据有关消息称，此前印度海啸地震及伦敦地铁爆炸案等事件中的遇害者也遭到了窃听。

The bereaved relatives of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan may have had their phones hacked by a private investigator working for the News of the World.

The Daily Telegraph has learnt that the personal details of the families of servicemen who died on the front line have been found in the files of Glenn Mulcaire, the private detective working for the Sunday tabloid.

The disclosure that grieving relatives of war dead were targets for the newspaper prompted anger among military charities, who said it was a “disgusting and indefensible assault on privacy”.

The Metropolitan Police is facing growing calls from the families of murder victims, those killed in terrorist attacks and those who died in natural disasters, such as the Indonesian tsunami, to disclose if they were targets.

Rebekah Brooks, the former editor of the News of the World and now chief executive of News International, its parent company, faced calls from Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, to step down.

Yesterday The Daily Telegraph disclosed that families of victims of the July 7 bombings were targets for Mulcaire in the days after the atrocity in 2005.