this could also be coordinated disinfo to draw aq into the open.
I like that idea... have AQ conduct bloody purges within its own ranks based on the planted story that there's a spy within its organization.
Judging the article: There are only "sources" and "officials" who verify the claim. I am sick of this, and FR readers should be too. If the Times (which is historically and notoriously anti-Israel, and is now anti-USA war effort in Iraq) can't name a source, it shouldn't print the article.