Andy Perrin -- This may not have been in the NYT (yet), but it's
not as though it came out ny the NYPost. Newsday is a major
newspaper, on par at least with, say, the Detroit Free Press. Just
because most of its readers live on Long Island, doesn't mean it
shouldn't be taken seriously.
(Disclaimer: I have not ever lived on Long Island, nor do I ever
plan to.)
As for the risk of the Iranian intelligence services being mistaken
for sooper geniuses, I'll offer this: What they seem to have pulled
off looks to me much more like a classic "big con" than an
intelligence coup. They identified what the mark (i.e., the Neocon
Bushites) was looking for, and they gave it to them -- knowing
that, as good ideologues, they'd see what they wanted to see, and
delete anything inconvenient.
If it all blew up in the mark's face, so much the better --
especially since that would leave a destabilised, weakened,
predominantly Shi'ite Iraq.
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