No, and this isn't really from them anyway. It's from GeostrategyDirect which seems to be part of World Tribune.com. One of their main contributors, that is reporters/columnists, is Bill Gertz.
Yes, and they hype the fact that Gertz supposedly will be a contributor to World Tribune.com to lend some credibility to everything else it prints. I don't think that logically follows.
Right now, I'm very skeptical of GeostrategyDirect and I'm getting the feeling that they are a Debka clone.