what kind of amazes me about the coverage of the iranian nuke dude is that the american press reports what the american authorities say as though it were fact, which i imagine is precisely the way the iranian press reports the assertions of the iranian authorities. but it's gotten a lot more ambiguous. he says he was kidnapped by the cia; they have dribbled to the point of saying they "whisked him away," etc. it's a good guess that we'll never have a plausible account of what actually happened; that is because the various people trying to do the explaining are either governments - whom it is stupid or impossible to believe - or people who have been bribed, blackmailed, coerced and cajoled by governments.