At least one of these Arab papers, the Lebanese Sawt al-Urouba, also claimed that some of the "human shields," who traveled to Baghdad before the war and pledged to tie themselves to likely targets so U.S. warplanes wouldn't bomb them, were in fact CIA agents who—operating under ideal cover—went around the city, pinpointing targets and paying bribes. (Plausible? Yes. A great movie plot in any case? Absolutely.) The Defense News article, which is available online only to the paper's subscribers, does not make this claim.