Phones stolen in Iraq used for sex chatlines

The Foreign Office has been apparently paying for an adult sex chatline in a Baghdad street for 17 months without knowing it.

The Foreign Office has had to tell MPs that an investigation into how a diplomat lost two satellite phones in Iraq has nothing to do with terrorism but more to do with a budding entrepreneur and a telephone porn network.

FO officials had already admitted that the lost phones had cost them £594,000 in unauthorised phone bills.