IMO, it's a dumb move and not out of character for Obama. Hence, believable even if this bit of news is from Debka.
Aside from the Chinese coming to the aid of Iraq, they are not THAT far off. In fact lately, they have been early to the game on some issues.
AND....they finally got to the chapter in “Teach yourself HTML in a day” where they talk about padding. At least now the site is readable. Not the content....the format.