U.S. BLOWS Sting Operation (Idiots!)

[liberalpragmatist]

These guys are fucking idiots. The Al Qaeda suspect Homeland Security officials revealed on Monday was actually an informer who was involved in counterterrorism efforts:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5626850/

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The al-Qaida suspect named by U.S. officials as the source of information that led to this week’s terrorist alerts was working undercover, Pakistani intelligence sources said Friday, putting an end to the sting operation and forcing Pakistan to hide the man in a secret location.

Under pressure to justify the alerts in three Northeastern cities, U.S. officials confirmed a report by The New York Times that the man, Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, was the source of the intelligence that led to the decision.

A Pakistani intelligence source told Reuters on Friday that Khan, who was arrested in Lahore secretly last month, had been actively cooperating with intelligence agents to help catch al-Qaida operatives when his name appeared in U.S. newspapers.

(snip)

In addition to ending the Pakistani sting, the premature disclosure of Khan’s identity may have affected a major British operation in which 12 suspects were arrested in raids this week, one of whom U.S. officials said was a senior al-Qaida figure. One of the men was released Friday.

British police told Reuters on Friday that they had been forced to carry out the raids more hastily than planned, a day after Khan’s name appeared in the Times.

[xray s]

1. They didn't just blow it

They blew the cover for the sting operation in order to protect Bush from political damage.

Traitorous rat bastards!

[troublemaker]

2. I'm reluctant to say it, but THIS is the election.

On a related note--In Bush's Q&A with the minority journalists today he said that people criticized the last terror alert, but now according to news reports it's turning out that there were multiple intel sources.

WTF? Does Bush rely on media reports to know what intel we do or do not have?