Uh, the guy who walked in was not on our "team" as you so eloquently put it. He was some guy who walked in, told them where the brothers were, and probably waited hands open for his cheque. If he didn't walk in, our intelligence agencies would still be sitting around with their thumbs up thier asses. Kudos to the troops, they did their job excellently, but if you're claiming that somebody walking in and giving our guys the info is the same thing as good intelligence field work, you need to pull your head out of your ass. Same way Jessica Lynch would be rotting in an Iraqi hospital if an Iraqi didn't hold our troop's hands and guide them to her.
reread my post from which you quote. i did not group the iraqi citizen with the u.s. personnel ('team'). although in a looser sense this
iraqi citizen is on our 'team'. i'm sure he was not fond of those two creeps. you can ofcourse impugn his motivations. perhaps he was
out for the benjamins, moral principles be damned. but you've been impugning the motivations of all creatures, political or not, since
this adventure began, and therefore your accusation is predictably groundless.
you are also blaming our intel people without understanding their methods. luck, happenstance, the gods, are on occasion important factors.
our intel people are investigators and they are combing the country looking for clues as to the whereabouts of these criminals. they
rely on info provided by citizens, former dissidents, sympathetic gov't officials, debriefed wmd scientists, and the like. they did nothing
wrong or right. this fortunate break does not speak of their competence or incompetence. you'll need to spin this further if you're going
to reduce the details to digestible form.