According to highly classified information received by British and
American intelligence officials in the past week... He is also said to have... who is known to have...

Well, it could all be true enough. But equally it could all be a bunch of conveniantly times hooey. "Highly classified" means "you are going to have to take it on trust"; and there is no reason whatsoever to trust what these people say. After all, these were the guys who made up the story about babies being thrown out of incubators in the Kuwait occupation, which was later admitted to have been a complete fabrication.