An Own Goal? Stupidity or a Come on?

I have seen a lot of own goals when I look at soccer matches but never before have I seen one this good:

"The US Government posted Iraqi documents on the Internet that explain how to build a nuclear bomb, The New York Times reported on its website on Friday.

The Times said that officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency had complained to US officials last week about the postings of "roughly a dozen" documents from Iraq's pre-1991 nuclear research that contained diagrams, equations and other details for making a nuclear bomb.

The newspaper cited experts who said the documents "constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb".

The US Government posted the bomb-related documents on a website set up last March to make available to the public a huge archive of Iraqi Government papers, hoping that the public would help sift through the archive for useful information that Government translators did not have time to search for."

If true, then it's time that some US officials actually lost their jobs for stuff like this. Talk about making it easy for your friendly neighbourhood terrorists.

Then again I have to remember that the US government has a whole department given over to psychological operations. I wonder if this is a scam?

Let's hand the terrorists some plans that will help them to blow themselves up and take a few of their mates with them when they do.

Interesting question.

I find it hard to believe that the US government that spends trillions of dollars on all sorts of trivia does not have enough translators or cannot hire enough translators to get through their paperwork and have to rely on public help for something like this.