Ignatius: Turkey ratted out Mossad sources to Iran to punish Netanyahu

David
Ignatius, for my money the best intelligence reporter in the business, reports that last year, the
Turkish government informed the Iranian government of the identity of as many
as 10 Iranians who had been meeting in Turkey with Mossad officers.

His
overarching conclusion in this interesting, detail-rich column, is that, "The Netanyahu-Erdogan quarrel,
with its overlay of intelligence thrust and parry, is an example of the
kaleidoscopic changes that may be ahead in the Middle East. The United States,
Israel, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are all exploring new alliances and
struggling to find a new equilibrium -- overtly and covertly."

I
think one of the things that makes Ignatius so good is his novelistic mind, which helps him
gaze unblinkingly into the intel world's wilderness of mirrors:

What will the spider do,


Suspend its operations, will the weevil


Delay?

(HT to Jeff)