This article is awfully light on hard facts. An Aegis-type BMS could mean a whole lot of different things...Aegis is a networked collection of sensors, communications and weapons platforms and is quite complex. Being a system and not a specific device means only certain parts like the network architecture or some of the sensor technology could have been what was stolen, not necessarily the whole system. That hardly makes it comparable to our Aegis systems which have matured over the last 20 years and are most likely far more capable than theirs is.
Besides, didn't these same U.S. Intelligence officials tell us WMD in Iraq was a "slam dunk"? Hmmph...