The CIA rumor is based entirely on iraqthemodel.com being set up by a stupidly named CIATech.com company. (See whois on nsi.com) LA Times knows this, but it makes a better story to play dumb and publish Omar denying the accusation.

The main blogger on this charge at Martini Republic, Joseph Mailander, simply cannot be so dense as not to realize what it might mean to Sunni Iraqis living in Baghdad if their neighbors started to think they were paid agents of the CIA, or even the “490th Army Civil Reserve Unit,” as Mailander specifically claimed.

Simply put, I suspect Mr. Mailander, and perhaps the entire team over at Martini Republic — not to mention “Professor” Juan Cole of Informed [sic] Comment, who hyped the charges and added to them — were hoping that one or more of the brothers would be murdered, or that the blogsite would be bombed off the internet. The liberal bloggers display in other posts the complete disregard for Iraqi life that is typical of liberals across America; why would they feel anything but giddy glee if three problematical “neocon” Iraqi bloggers were slain?

In my opinion, we’ve all dipped a toe into the true, vicious, dark side of the Left, which has historically seen violence, riot, and murder as legitimate tools to advance its lamentable cause. In this case, the bloody reach of Mailander and Cole far exceeds their rather pathetic grasp, and nobody in Iraq appears to be buying what Martini Republic and Informed Comment are selling.

But someday, perhaps, they will concoct a charge in a believable enough way that they will get some “enemy” of theirs butchered. And they will wave the bloody scalp and dance about in joyous abandon. Considering what fire they play with, it’s virtually inevitable.

Dafydd

I thought contrasting the unspecified attacks against the specific retort camee out rather well for the bloggers.