What!?!
Notice the part in the Editorial where the author states "Nor was it clear that the suspect was guilty. As U.S. intelligence officers testified in a preliminary hearing in the case, Iraqis will often finger an innocent person to American troops as a way to wreak personal revenge on each other."
This is precisely the reason that I and others here have said that the statement "West Saved Lives" is not fact at least in this case. Bad information leads to bad operations, the technique he used to get his information has been proven unreliable.