Hearst yellow journalism was less yellow than this

"The Sunday Times described how a man it said was a "Taliban treasurer" had gone to collect $18,000 from an Iranian firm in Kabul, a reward it said was for an attack in July which killed several Afghan government troops and destroyed an American armored vehicle."  Don't you like it when documentation of a story starts with "a man said that another one went, etc?  Wait.  Let me guess the man's name: Manoucher Chalabi? or Curveball 2?