It seems like it was never even much of a rumor. The KUNA article came out, Roggio picked it up, and everyone else seemed to be silent about it. From what Allegra said, even the Iraqi's were not buzzing about it. I have to wonder how KUNA got the story, and why they published it. Weird.
I assume there was nothing to it in the first place. If there is any substance to the story I would have expected the Iraqi's to have gotten some inkling, and I would have expected , by now, some discernable twitching (if not spasms) in AQI as well.
Thanks for the update.