Cant really see it myself, though it seems like some outrageously extravagant speculation if the journo in question dosn't have something to back up his views.
Sounds more symptomatic of the Times slip into obscurity, incapable of plagiarising their own stories was a quote I heard recently, than any threat to world security. I wait to be proved wrong but hell, you want to move a corps to the Arabian desert you'd better start about now.