Egypt telling them this isn’t some whisper by an anonymous source.
Maybe my wording is not that clear, but I am just responding to this part of the article where the source for the story is clearly mentioned as an anonymous source.:
“We have warned them an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon, and it would be big. But they underestimated such warnings,” the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to discuss the content of sensitive intelligence discussions with the media, told The Associated Press.
Anonymously talking with the media doesn’t mean they were anonymously talking with Israel
Maintaining public anonymity does not mean the press didn’t know who they were, and could verify that they knew what they were talking about.
I do agree that it’s useful to maintain a certain level of skepticism… but that doesn’t mean complete distrust of anything you’re told. It’s not unreasonable that Egypt had intel that an attack like this was coming, or at the very least that extremist elements were reaching a breaking point and something extreme was going to happen soon.
Maybe my wording is not that clear, but I am just responding to this part of the article where the source for the story is clearly mentioned as an anonymous source.:
Depending on how you’re interpreting this:
Anonymously talking with the media doesn’t mean they were anonymously talking with Israel
Maintaining public anonymity does not mean the press didn’t know who they were, and could verify that they knew what they were talking about.
I do agree that it’s useful to maintain a certain level of skepticism… but that doesn’t mean complete distrust of anything you’re told. It’s not unreasonable that Egypt had intel that an attack like this was coming, or at the very least that extremist elements were reaching a breaking point and something extreme was going to happen soon.