Reply #15: Fake Cable Labeled Writer (William Arkin) a Spy for Iraq

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Fake Cable Labeled Writer a Spy for Iraq

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 18, 2005; Page C01

Someone has gone to a great deal of trouble to produce a document accusing journalist and activist William Arkin of serving as a spy for Saddam Hussein.

The Pentagon says the supposed Defense Intelligence Agency cable is a forgery. Arkin says it's "chilling" and is demanding an investigation. The NBC News military analyst says he became aware of the bogus document when a Washington Times reporter called about the spying allegation and sent him a copy.

"Someone who put this together obviously tried to make it plausible enough to do harm and endanger me," William Arkin says of the bogus document. (Sarah L. Voisin -- The Washington Post)


"There are a lot of reasons, I guess, why people would want to do me harm," Arkin said yesterday. One, he said, is the recent publication of his book "Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs and Operations in the 9/11 World." Another, he noted, is a series of past scoops that embarrassed the Bush administration.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45614-20...