Those mysterious Iranians

Days of assiduous New York Times reporting on the case of two Iranians arrested at the compound of the pro-Iranian yet Bush-coddled Abdul Aziz al-Hakim have failed to establish what they were up to or why they arrested. It is worth noting however that one piece of allegedly incriminating evidence found on them, a sectarian map of Baghdad, was already in the public domain, as it was published by the Times (UK) a couple of weeks ago.