Not a bad theory.
What amazes me the most is that both of those networks are so stupid they don't even question the story. Since northern Iraq was set up as a "no fly" zone specifically to protect the Kurds in the north from Saddam, why would we need to send men on the ground to destroy the facility when we could easily take it out by air?
If we know enough to know that the terrorists exposed a man in the market to poison and then followed him home to watch him die days later, we obviously already have someone on the ground--or very good electronic surveillance...Since I doubt we'd deliberately leak news of a ground asset, I'd say it was learned electronically and released to make them wonder how we know...I love it when our guys mess with their heads :)