Window into Israeli ops in Iraq?
... And talking of "leaked Zarqawi letters", here's an interesting story from Sunday's edition of my old rag the London Sunday Times, talking about the anger of "Israeli military intelligence officials" that people in the Bush administration have publicized a supposed letter to Zarqawi from Qaeda #2 Ayman al-Zawahiri that the Israelis had given the Americans back in October, on conditions of strictsecrecy...
The reason the Israeli intel people are upset, according to this piece which is bylined Uzi Mahnaimi, is that they fear that publication of the letter will, "undermin[e] their attempts to infiltrate Al-Qaeda’s operations in Iraq".
Mahnaimi writes:
- Israeli intelligence sources said officials who had worked on “Operation Tiramisu” inside Iraq took emergency steps to protect their sources, but it was not clear how successful they had been in averting the damage to their intelligence network.
Somebody needs to infiltrate Al Qaeda.
Well, the Bush administration has already outed one of its own agents (Valerie Plame) and outed Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, whom the British turned as a double agent to infiltrate Al-Qaeda. So this latest bit of idiocy doesn't surprise me one bit.
Still, part of me is wondering if this is all an elaborate psy-op to shake up Al-Qaeda's confidence.
"Somebody needs to infiltrate Al Qaeda."
Yeah - maybe that way someone will actually SEE the magical mythical Zarqawi......
....nor not.