Editing April Fool (spy) (section)

==Overview==
According to General [[Tommy Franks]], the American commander in the [[2003 invasion of Iraq|2003 Iraq conflict]], April Fool, an American officer working [[undercover]] as a [[diplomat]], was approached by an Iraqi [[intelligence agent]]. April Fool sold to the Iraqi false "top secret" invasion plans provided by Franks' team.  This deception successfully misled the Iraqi military into deploying major forces in northern and western Iraq in anticipation of attacks via [[Turkey]] or [[Jordan]] which never took place. This greatly reduced the defensive capacity in the rest of Iraq and significantly facilitated the actual attacks via [[Kuwait]] and the [[Persian Gulf]] in the southeast.  Inadequately defended, [[Baghdad]] fell to coalition forces within a few weeks and Saddam Hussein's regime collapsed.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Allen-Mills|first1=Tony|date=2004-08-01|title=Agent April Fool tricked Saddam|newspaper=The Times|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article464330.ece|archive-date=2008-10-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016220934/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article464330.ece}}</ref>