Err.. I think that if you take the time to read (you CAN read?) you'll see that I'm saying that it doesn't appear to be on any reputable news outlets. I really don't care much if it has ot one time appeared with UPI, or if it does today.
you seem to concede that it is legit
You seem to be somewhat slow. Let's take this slowly :).
Sale, the reporter and sole source basically says this happened. There is no corroborating evidence - Cordesman, another appendage to the jihad-infested washington-report, offers his speculation and Sale refers vaguely to various sources (anonymous official 1, 2, whatever). There is nothing whatsoever verifiable, and if there had been the other news-agencies would probably have picked it up in February 2001. Instead we see a campaign coming up to spam it around in 2002. Strange.
Now, of course I don't for a moment actually think that you are as bizarrely stupid as you're playing at :)). I do note, however, that you seem to be another one of these strange critters registered in '98,'99 who suddenly pops out of the woodwork when the ranks of "pinlighters" wear thin.