Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic writes that he just got off the phone with Steve Klein, who the AP describes as an associate. Klein told Goldberg that Bacile is not a real name. "I don't know that much about him. I met him, I spoke to him for an hour. He's not Israeli, no," Klein told Godlberg. "I can tell you this for sure, the State of Israel is not involved, Terry Jones (the radical Christian Quran-burning pastor) is not involved. His name is a pseudonym. All these Middle Eastern folks I work with have pseudonyms. I doubt he's Jewish. I would suspect this is a disinformation campaign." So, we repeat again, with this story it's better to remain highly skeptical.