The New York Times reports today that Iran is supplying a weapon described as an “explosive penetrator device” to Iraqi insurgents. But this couldn’t be more wrong, according to a former member of the Kasakhstan intelligence service (pictured at left).

According to the source, the weapons are actually “Penetrating Love Explosion Cylinders” made in his home country. “I have examined the samples and identified, how do you say, public hairs that are unimistakeably Kazakhstani in origin” says the source, who added “please don’t nuke us, OK? We like you!”

Troll prophylactic: no, things that kill US soldiers are not funny. This is meant to satirize the building hype that the Neocons hope will lead us into another unnecessary war.

Following up on Lambert’s post, Michael R. Gordon, the “author” of today’s NYT piece, was an active participant in hyping the bogus WMD threat from Iraq. E&P:

Gordon wrote with Miller the paper’s most widely criticized — even by the Times itself — WMD story of all, the Sept. 8, 2002, “aluminum tubes” story that proved so influential, especially since the administration trumpeted it on TV talk shows.

This guy apparently has something of a fixation with metallic shafts.

NOTE Glenn Greenwald has more.