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A quick plug for Juan Cole's excellent site on Iraq which I recently heard about via Crooked Timber. The current material on how the Bush administration leaked the name of Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan thus jeopardising UK intelligence operations and leading to the premature arrest of several suspected Al Qaida suspects here.
The press here don't seem to have really picked this up - perhaps there isn't enough corroboration - but it seems very plausible to me, and explains both the unusual timing of the operation, and David Blunkett's comments in the Guardian.
Posted by MFreestone at August 10, 2004 12:29 PM