The humiliation of finding secret Israeli bases in Iraq

It is difficult to imagine anything more uncomfortable and embarrassing for leaders of Iraq than clandestinely established Israeli military bases on Iraqi territory. Two such bases were revealed recently when an Iraqi shepherd stumbled upon one of them in the sparsely populated western desert of Iraq and reported its presence to Iraqi authorities before the Israelis killed him. Any such outpost — established by any foreign government, for any purpose — without the permission of the sovereign cou...