Yes, but they would immaterial, since I'm not the one making allegations based on hearsay; you are. Your own post admits this, behind the smokescreen of your insults and ad hominem diversions:
As for you suggesting I am repeating "hearsay" - Call it what you want - (which for the record I have never said it wasn't
Since you concede your allegation is hearsay, with respect to that part of your posts the case stands closed.
As for the identities of Burns and Wurst, please feel free to post some quotes or cite some specific page numbers from Masters of Chaos to substantiate your assertion that these are not the same individuals I inquired about. You will note that I did not state they were the same individuals, I merely asked you if they were, which evidently made you very defensive, since you responded with insults. I wonder why it makes you so defensive when people ask you basic questions about the sources of your information?
No, you have most certainly run to the defense of Mr. Chalabi and suggested those who don't see him in a favorable light are somehow bias - When it is you that is oddly bias towards him....(when in fact you have never worked with him or met him) -
Yet, those SOF who have worked with him - You immediately question their motives or even more oddly try and suggest they are entirely different people! (that is the weirdest thing I have possibly ever seen! - And funniest). -
As for you now trying to suggest you didn't try to claim Mr. Burns and Mr. Wurst weren't other people - Than what was your whole post about (with links) to two men with the same names (well, not even the same name with Mr. Wurst, just the same last name....which oddly for you was close enough) - If you weren't trying to suggest that these were the same people than why even post all that -
You knew clearly I wasn't talking about them, because I was talking about about the SOF "on the record" within the detailed and documented book Masters of Chaos -
You then most certainly did take those two names I listed (after you asked for names) and oddly suggested could I possible mean these two other people - (again, wow, is that nuts!).
As for repeating hearsay, I said from the beginning with regard to a family friend that is part of the US SOF community what his take was on Mr. Chalabi - There is absolutely nothing wrong with that -
And let me add further the weight of US Special Operations officer holds a lot of water (IMO - and to many others) - Especially one that has worked in Iraq and Afghanistan -
For you to immediately question this gentleman's word....and or his motives behind them - And do so, while trying to defend Mr. Chalabi (a man that was arrested by US Forces) - It makes me really start to question your judgment and "motives" -
Not that you oddly and weirdly trying to suggest two other people were actually Major Burns and Major Wurst didn't already do that for me!
What case is closed is you clearly don't have a clue what you are talking about when it comes to US SOF in Iraq nor what those who worked with Mr. Chalabi on the ground think of him -