For every Mylai , or even the “Copper Green’ assertions about Abu Ghraib, there are myriad fibs, lies, distortions. There were military intelligence officials at Abu Ghraib; but they were not systematically overseeing the operation, like the case with Quahtani, at Gitmo, KSM, Abu Zubeydah, Al Nashiri at posts in Thailand and Poland. early example was the story of Jesse Leaf; the Iran analyst that taught the SAVAK to torture employing Nazi techniques; doubtful but it serve as a pretext for Ahmadinjad’s crew in rallying support for the holding of
the US Embassy employees. Then there is the
matter of the shootdown of KAL OO7; which he
chalked up to a deliberate US Govt. plot. The
Samson option; relied on two unreliable sources who would give Curveball a run for his money, one of which was Ari ben Menashe, a clerk in the Foreign Ministry; spinning his
Walter Mittyesque tale of Mossad derring do.
His reporting tried to discredit the Saddam plot against Bush. He floated the debunking of the attack on the Al Shifa plant in the Sudan. Most recently he tried to attribute the rise of the Islamist Fatah al Islam, to
the Hariri govt; which was ironic considering the problem the Lebanese army had dealing with them. This latest piece, will serve the purpose of deligitimazing any cooperation with the US govt; so when the Iranians get the bomb; he’ll blame the same
govt. that tried to stop it.