In his most recent post on Iran, the invaluable Michael Ledeen points out the December 25 New York Times story on the American seizuure of Iranians suspected of condcuting attacks on Iraqi security forces. Michael plucks this quote from the December 25 Times story:
One senior administration official said,
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