US leak of top secret Zarqawi letter angers Israel

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Saturday April 08, 2006 · 4:19 PM PDT

2006/04/08 · 16:19

ISRAELI military intelligence officials have accused President George W Bush's administration of undermining their attempts to infiltrate Al-Qaeda's operations in Iraq by revealing the contents of a secret letter written by Osama Bin Laden's second-in-command, writes Uzi Mahnaimi.

Israel passed the letter -- in which Ayman al-Zawahiri outlined his Middle East strategy to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi-- to Washington on condition of strict anonymity. Israeli officials were dismayed, however, when John Negroponte, the US director of national intelligence, made it available in both English and its original Arabic on his office web site.

Israeli intelligence sources said officials who had worked on "Operation Tiramisu" inside Iraq took emergency steps to protect their sources, but it was not clear how successful they had been in averting the damage to their intelligence network.

They said Bush's indiscretion had undone months of painstaking effort.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/...

Hasn't the Bush administation done this more then once? I remember in the run up to the 2004 election around June they leaked top secret info that compromised a number of investigations for political purposes. The Bush administation is willing to sell out our national security to score political points.

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