Dead Iranian Scientist
So about the dead Iranian scientist thing--the guy who was supposedly offed by Israel--where does that show up on its original source--Radio Farda or RFE/RFL? (Radio Farda is a Persian-language subsidiary of RFE/RL.) I read all their Iran stuff and if I'd have seen that I would have blogged it faster than you can say traffic-bait. Yet as near as I can tell this major scoop shows up nowhere on the news site. Hmm.
There is an article at Stratfor that would seem to suggest that Israel was involved, but it's behind the firewall:
Geopolitical Diary: Israeli Covert Operations in IranAny Stratfor subscribers want to help a blogger out, hit my hotmail at "seedub".
February 02, 2007 0200 GMT
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Far more plausible is that shoddy Iranian nuclear tech sprayed their bigshot scientist with a lethal dose of uranium hexafluoride gas, and they decided to blame it on the Jews.