[DWPittelli]

Please don't quote debka as a reliable source

I didn't quote Debka as a reliable source.

I filled my post with caveats about them and their logic. If a multitude of Freepers ask me not to quote Debka at all, I'll stop.

[American in Israel]

By all means quote them, I have found some stories they post to be true that no one else touches. For example the reports that Israel was helping the Jordanians fight Sadams incursions. No one had proof, but I saw the military shift to the Jordanian border and LOTS of helo flights heading that way.

I have not seen that since. Nobody broke the story but Debka and I saw the evidence with my own eyes. Many anti-Debka types laughed that Jordan would co-operate against Sadam, or allow foreign troops to base there.

But that too we can see with our own eyes. I chalk a lot of the Debka bashers up to ignorance or anti-Semitism. Debka is not a news agency, it is a intelligence speculation site. It gets it spectacularly wrong some times and spectacularly right on others. Just what you would expect from that type of site. In middle eastern stories they are the best in the field.

Debka is best taken with a large dose of salt.