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INTERNATION INTRIGUE ALERT:

John Loftus had an interesting take last night on Batchelor and Alexander.

Loftus is tying the strike on Monday to the story of the attack on the Russian diplomats as they were leaving Iraq.

Loftus maintains that SH was killed on 3/19. He says that Russians not friendly to Putin (Primakov, i.e.) have been aiding Iraq through the sale of weapons and by using the Russian Embassy as a command and control center. This is the tie-in with the Jaguar satellite phones. The Russians provided them to the Iraqis.

Once the Iraq friendly Russians figured out those phones had been compromised, they knew they were had and that's when they had to get out of dodge with archival information which proved their duplicity. That's where the story about the Russian convoy (which was guarded by Iraqi soldiers) comes in. Loftus says we intercepted that convoy and that there was fire exchanged. We prevailed and most likely took some or all of the archival info from them. (Loftus was uncommittal when asked whether or not we got it, but he left the listener with the impression that we did.)

Upon leaving, the Russians warned the Iraqi leadership that all their communications were compromised. Loftus said the action on Monday was a sting by the Iraqis to see if that was so. The Iraqis used a SH double to go into that restaurant and used tapes of conversations over phone lines, not real ones, to lure us into a sting.

I don't understand all this, but with this scenario, lots of puzzle pieces fall into place, including why Bush has been seemingly so tolerant toward Putin.

We're denying that we hit the Russian convoy. We are admitting to hitting the Kurdish convoy that killed the son of a Kurdish leader.

You beat my post above! Good work.

I heard that Batchelor & Alexander show. But it doesn't make sense, if the CIA knows for sure Saddam was killed on 3/19, why even bother with the intercept and the B1 strike on the restaurant? If we knew Saddam was already dead, why go for the second strike to kill him?